Sentences with phrase «ebooks for lending»

Now libraries offer their patrons an average of about 10,000 ebooks for lending, either as part of the library's own collection or available through a consortium.

Libraries struggle with having strange limitations imposed on ebooks for lending and readers abroad suffer from the odd sales tax laws that governments have enacted specifically against ebooks.

Over 62 % of readers in the USA didn't know if their library had ebooks for lending, and only 12 % of Americans 16 and older who read e-books had borrowed at least one from a library in the past year.

Random House, whose price increase on digital versions of its titles for library lending, reiterated what can be great news for libraries, mainly that when a library purchases an ebook for lending to its patrons, that book is the property of the library.

Not exact matches

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One great thing about ebooks is that fact that many public libraries around the world support ebook lending for free.

Libraries use different systems for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.

A spokesperson for the company didn't have anything concrete to offer, but did remind me that B&N offers eBook lending through its «LendMe» technology (not the same as gifting) and, like Amazon, offers physical and electronic gift cards for eBooks.

The eBooks are lend out for two days and automatically self delete after expiry.

eBook Lending Platforms — p. 22 by John Novak — For the purposes of this article, the definition of an eBook lending platform is one that contains eBooks from multiple publishers that patrons may browse and checkout.

Instead of selling ebooks for a one - time cost and allowing libraries to lend these ebooks in perpetuity,... Read more >

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.

From the initial six hundred - plus titles that the publisher originally offered, Macmillan has now made more than 12,000 ebooks available to school libraries for student lending.

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,... [Read more...]

This program will serve a twofold purpose, first in offering libraries and their patrons even more ebook content for lending programs, and second in terms of helping indie authors in the process of getting their books discovered by a larger public audience.

Gardners also provides an ebook lending model for a number of libraries, under which library members are restricted to one concurrent loan per purchased ebook.

GoodEReader reported last month that the American Library Association had asked for and gotten meetings with three of the Big Six publishers to discuss moving forward with ebook lending.

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.

This agreement will make more than 5,000 technical, medical, and professional titles available for ebook lending; more than 700 of these titles are recently published works.

This phenomenon has been shared for years from companies like Kobo and OverDrive, who've worked to convince publishers that library lending and ebooks are good for their business.

Of course, the fact that a few smaller publishers have come on board and the nomination for a publishing industry innovation award lends a lot of credibility to the concept behind Rook, the free ebook reading app that lets... [Read more...]

This affirmation came directly from one of the Big Six publishers that has been criticized for its business practices concerning ebook lending of its titles.

3M's Library System loves to show up at a packed conference and show off something new and innovative for the world of library ebook lending, such as at last year's ALA Conference when all the buzz was about the dedicated e-reader designed specifically to be checked out from local public libraries.

OverDrive, which powers ebook lending for over 19,000 customer libraries, announced today that it is broadening its educational library focus with the addition of a General Manager of Education and Chief Sales Officer position over K - 12 libraries.

Digital content provider OverDrive made a monumental announcement today in saying that Macmillan has made its entire ebook catalog available for the first time for lending through OverDrive's school library partners.

Just as with books, though, there are books that you collect and books that you consume; print lends itself to titles that readers want to own for years to come, while ebooks were ideal for books that readers enjoyed and then promptly moved away from.

While the struggle for a satisfactory condition continues in the world of ebook lending for public libraries, some companies are still managing to make progress with digital catalogs.

Much like the headache of licensing ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release content available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked at making their entire catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print sales will decline.

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.

Overdrive is proclaiming that the demand for eBook lending had no negative impact on publishers», authors» and booksellers» businesses.

The American Library Association held its Midwinter conference this week, but the real news to come from that gathering is that the ALA's key leadership has asked for and gotten a meeting with several major publishers to figure out where eBook lending is going from here.

One of the polarizing issues in the U.S. ebook market right now is the conflict over public library access to ebook titles for lending, but we may be able to take a lesson from Libranda's new partnership with OverDrive to afford access to new and bestselling ebook titles to library patrons in Spain.

While many US libraries require proof of immediate residency to use their library, eliminating the benefits of ebook lending altogether, would - be patrons have actually traveled to the nearest library in order to sign up for library cards and take advantage of ebook availability, which has proven good for local businesses as these new patrons shop and dine in the region while they're there.

While their methods will vary on how they choose to improve ebook lending of their titles, only Simon & Schuster remains the only major US publisher that is not releasing its ebook titles for public library lending in any way.

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.

3M Cloud Library was set up in the BEA Digital Zone to talk about its library lending offerings, but the real news from 3M lately was the recent partnership with Smashwords that puts the ebook distributor's titles in the catalog for libraries to choose from.

Interestingly, the image only alludes to 600,000 titles available in the Amazon catalog, not the full ebook catalog, which could mean that Amazon would have the same problem with acquiring content for lending that has plagued the ebook subscription model since it first became news back in 2010.

eBook lending has been a struggle for the industry, with different publishers experimenting with different lending parameters and limitations in an effort to protect the interests of their companies and their authors.

Overdrive is the company responsible for the facilitation of ebook lending from your local libraries in digital format.

Essentially, the leadership finally expressed that it was fed up with the current upheaval in public library ebook lending, with different members of the Big Six publishing houses setting their own rules — from no lending of our new titles, to a book can only be borrowed a specific number of times, to no lending of any of our titles at all — it was chaos for the libraries and disappointment for their patrons.

One of the end results of these meetings is an agreement from Random House that it would support ebook lending of its catalog of titles, but that the price that libraries must pay for those books would have to increase.

Interesting to note that Amazon announced in April that they're interested in the library ebook market after all http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?ID=1552678&c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle and Overdrive is making changes to boost the Amazon program and also simplify ebook lending for libraries http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/overdrive-update-helps-amazon-program.html

Some book publishers, fearful that library ebook lending will cannibalize retail sales of books, are reluctant to supply ebooks to libraries at the very time that library patrons are clamoring for greater access to such materials.

Step 2: If the library lends out Kindle ebooks, go to their website and search for the title that you're interested in borrowing.

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

eSentral commenced a pioneering project with Sabah State Library to serve ebooks for remote lending focusing on local ebooks.

There's a more expanded report on the ramifications of these eBook lending programs in the January issue of Infinity's Author's Advocate — if you aren't a subscriber, you may sign up for a free subscription by visiting www.infinitypublishing.com.

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According to the February 10 post in Publisher's Lunch, forcing patrons to come into the library to borrow ebooks is also the appropriate model for ebook lending.

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