Kindle Unlimited is, in fact, hardly different from the public library
ebook loan system which is available for free through installing the OverDrive app.
Not exact matches
The company facilitates the entire digital distribution
system, so libraries can easily purchase and
loan out
ebooks to their patrons.
The 3M Cloud Library
system is one of the newest entries to the market that focuses on getting libraries hooked up with the ability to
loan out
ebooks.
This new
system of encryption makes loading
eBooks on other devices or
loaning them how to friends quick and intuitive.
Greg Pronevitz, executive director of the Massachusetts Library
System, which last month launched the MA
eBook Project, a six - month pilot to investigate new ways for public libraries to
loan eBooks.
Overdrive announced a new Cost Per Circ
system last year and it allows libraries to have a huge influx of digital content that can
loaned out to as many users as they want simultaneously and libraries only pay when the audiobook or
ebook is actually borrowed.
While I'd guess the publisher's markup for library use of 25
loans of an
ebook far exceeds the single - copy price of the same book, I'd also be curious about the capital and administrative costs of housing and handling / shipping especially in a large multi-branch
system, that don't exist for electronic
loans.
You can use Bluefire to read DRM encrypted
ebooks from other bookstores or, potentially, libraries, many of which use the Adobe DRM
system to expire
ebooks at the end of their
loan period.
In addition to the costs for Destiny itself, annual dues of $ 1.50 per student cover costs for on - site training and maintenance of the
system as well as for access to online interlibrary
loan for students and teachers; group subscriptions to CultureGrams, LibGuides CMS and LibWizard, and ExploringNature.org; and a shared
eBook collection.