Moving to a lower - cost pay - per - page scheme is probably not a viable option for
ebook lending sites such as Scribd as the attraction for Big 5 publishers would be diminished.
We are quite happy with the rise of
eBook lending sites, that help facilitate the love of reading from users who have never met each other before.
The new website offers some innovative features not found in many of the other
ebook lending sites.
Many new
eBook lending sites are rising up to take advantage over the lending services offered by Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
We do know that we're not the only
eBook lending site who had their API access revoked today, so we can only speculate that it wasn't anything about Lendle specifically that caused Amazon to act today, but rather something a bit bigger than us.
Not exact matches
By demonstrating how
ebook lending can work through this
site, he hopes that publishers and libraries can put to rest some of the concerns that both sides have on the issue.
Unfortunately, a report that was released earlier this year showed that one way publishers are looking into protecting authors is to ban off -
site or remote
ebook lending, thereby requiring patrons to come into their local libraries in order to borrow
ebooks, essentially destroying one of the key advantages to e-reading, namely, the portability and anywhere access to
ebooks.
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.
Many new
sites are rising up that help facilitate the
ebook lending process such as Lendle, and eBook F
ebook lending process such as Lendle, and
eBook F
eBook Fling.
In the digital age, there is no denying that people are pirate
eBooks from popular torrent
sites, but why should
eBook lending clubs not care?
The main reason that
lending sites will become the way people trade books comes to a question of quality of the
ebook.
But at the American Library Association annual conference (ALA 2011) this week, HarperCollins was a willing participant in open discussions with the ALA task force business meeting and will even be contributing a publisher's perspective on the ALA task force's FAQ
site on
ebook lending and licensing.
We profiled the Kindle and Nook
Lending site eBook Fling in the past and they specialize in both Kindle and Nook book
lending.
This is the case in which a
site designed to help
ebook readers offer and find
ebooks to
lend — all perfectly legal and in no way involved with piracy — was shut down by authors who mistook LendInk for a piracy operation.
But the company's web
site clearly states that a given
ebook can only be
lent «one time.»