Sentences with phrase «ebook lending services»

The rules and opportunities are different with ebooks, and, indeed, we are now seeing for - profit companies providing ebook lending services.

Yes, Digital Editions fully supports Adobe Content Server DRM technology and is designed to work smoothly with existing library eBook lending services based on the Adobe Content Server infrastructure.

The research by Pew also highlighted the poor awareness of eBook lending services among its members, with 58 % of library members saying that they didn't know if the library had eBook lending.

Kobo also supports the formats demanded by the UK's main ebook lending services.

A new entrant to the emerging realm of eBook lending services «Fling» has just opened for business and it allows eBooks that have the lending feature, such as the Barnes and... [Read more...]

Those considering resource management systems, discovery services, self - service or automated materials - handling products, ebook lending services, or digitizing equipment can get a firsthand glimpse of the available options.

A new entrant to the emerging realm of eBook lending services «Fling» has just opened for business and it allows eBooks that have the lending feature, such as the Barnes and Noble Nook «Lendme» feature and the Amazon equivalent.

In the last couple of weeks, we've seen New Zealand public libraries announcing plans for the imminent launch of ebook lending services.

3M Library Systems, creators of cloud - based ebook lending and a library - specific e-reader device for patron checkout, and OverDrive, the leading provider of ebooks, audio books, and downloads to over 18,000 public libraries, may be competitors in the services they provide, but they are united in the fact that their work is intended to increase the capabilities of public libraries to provide ebook lending services to patrons.

eBook lending services are starting to blossom and bear fruit, as popular e-reader companies, such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble recently allowed their eBook owners to lend out most books for a 14 day window period.

Enter the eBook lending services.

There are lots of questions on how ebook lending services work.

Yesterday OverDrive announced that they have resolved a technical issue with their library ebook lending service that had caused a number of Kindle - formatted ebooks not to appear available for lending.

A local initiative developed by library and educational book supplier Wheelers launches a trial next month of its homegrown ebook lending service with Tauranga and Hamilton library districts.

And the publishers have been the culprit, at least in the eyes of the industry, for so long that it's a great benefit to see them working so closely with an ebook lending service.

They have signed agreements with Random House and IPG to form a cloud based ebook lending service to be offered to libraries.

«The 3M Cloud Library eBook lending service has simplified the discovery, browsing and check out process for eBooks so that more patrons can enjoy the digital content their library provides.»

This week, GoodEReader has been covering the ongoing tribulations of OverDrive, the ebook lending service to public libraries.

3M will soon be unleashing a new Cloud based ebook lending service for libraries to compete with Overdrive.

by Shelley Hitz Overdrive provides an eBook lending service to libraries.

Kansas State Librarian Joanne Budler recently terminated the Kansas Digital Library Consortium's contract with ebook vendor OverDrive to become a beta tester of 3M's new Cloud Library ebook lending service.

Overdrive provides an eBook lending service to libraries.

Not exact matches

Most will not be able to afford a serious ebook lending programme without painful cuts to other services.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]

Penguin made waves in the eBook industry when it pulled out of Overdrive and all of the other services that facilitated the lending of eBooks via your local library.

The essence of the pilot is to carry out real - time, real - world research into the impact of eBook lending in public libraries on authors, publishers and on the library service so that a suitable and sustainable model.

Three public library systems in Minnesota, overseeing a total of twenty - five individual libraries, became the most recent of the eighty library systems across the country to benefit from 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their pateBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their patebook lending for their patrons.

But with survey data from as recently as 2012 indicating that the majority of library patrons in the US didn't even know their public libraries could lend ebooks, despite the current numbers that 90 % of American libraries offer digital lending, there's an obvious disconnect between the services offered and patron adoption.

Overdrive intends on releasing a massive amount of metrics based on all of the schools and libraries that use their service for the facilitation of ebook and audiobook lending.

For Kindle owners, however, the service also provides access to a plethora of more than 800,000 ebooks via its lending library.

Addressing these concerns will require OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).

For its part, the government body overseeing the issue has agreed that authors need to be fairly compensated through ebook lending, but also that every possible step must be taken to ensure that ebook lending by both remote and on - site patrons remains a free service to society.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

«This spike in library lending of eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video is the result of the tremendous efforts of thousands of librarians, as well as significant ease - of - use improvements including seamless integration with library catalogs,» said Shannon Lichty, OverDrive's Director of Partner Services.

Many new eBook lending sites are rising up to take advantage over the lending services offered by Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

I expect to see eBook piracy failing quite significently in 2012 when the lending services gets more exposure and matures.

An example of a grassroots sharing service is ebooklendinglibrary forum where members can swap books using EBDs (ebook lending dollars) that are earned by lending books, writing reviews and other activities.

When Amazon added the ability to loan some purchased Kindle ebooks, I knew it wouldn't be long before we saw some new services to help people borrow & lend titles.

Libraries need to adopt a broad strategy to offer a digital lending service that allows anyone in the entire country to get a membership card and borrow ebooks.

Lending for non-commercial purposes isn't stealing and lending ebooks is breaking terms of service, calm down.

I always allow my ebooks to be lent, and they are available at Scribd and for Overdrive (the library lending service) as well.

I'd not previously realized this more nasty aspect of the publishers» attack on public libraries, requiring «OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).»

By recognizing ebooks not as a commodity that can be bought, sold, and consumed, but rather as a service item with pricing structures to go along with it, Atingo feels they have brought a whole new perspective on ebook lending, one that can and should work around the world.

Admittedly, Raphael had some good things to say about how the publishers are at least willing to listen to the concerns coming from the public libraries and are even interested in continuing the dialog to resolve their own concerns, fears that Raphael even says are not just lip service or an effort to not cooperate with ebook lending.

There are a number of highly competitive websites out there that compete with each other to provide a mostly free service to borrow and lend out ebooks.

Overdrive is the popular service that libraries employ to facilitate the digital lending of ebooks.

These days, libraries also carry audiobooks in both CD and digital formats, and usually partner with one or more ebook - lending services to offer ebooks as well.

Penguin and Amazon are in dispute over the terms of sale and lending for Penguin titles, but Penguin's response has been to order Amazon to lock down the ebooks that libraries acquired — using their precious and dwindling collections budgets — so that patrons can no longer check them out (Update: Amazon says Penguin and Overdrive, the e-book lending service, took the action without Amazon's involvement.

Matthias Matting of Die Self - Publisher - Bibel points out that the updated law does not apply to ebook subscription and lending services.

Most of the the library and ebook pundits go over the nitty - gritty details of the Kindle Lending Library, compare the extremely restrictive terms of Amazon's initial foray into lending services with the vast array of library offerings, and pronounce that libraries have nothing to worry about.