Sentences with phrase «ebooks for public»

Romances are the hottest circulating category of ebooks for public libraries.

With the importance both companies have placed on digital publishing in the past, it could potentially spur the movement to increase the availability of ebooks for public library lending.

OverDrive, which provides a full catalog of ebooks for public and school libraries to lend their patrons to over 15,000 libraries, was stunned this week when Penguin Group demanded that all of their titles be pulled from OverDrive's catalog, claiming that it had «security concerns.»

The «Big 6» publishers are increasingly skittish about providing ebooks for public libraries to lend.

In a special report [pdf] released in July 2010 on ebooks for public libraries, the Council of State Library Agencies (COSLA) endorsed the exploration of OPDS Catalogs.

Not exact matches

Our industry - leading library distribution reaches OverDrive (world's largest library ebook platform serving 20,000 + libraries), Baker & Taylor Axis 360, Tolino, Gardners (Askews & Holts and Browns Books for Students), Bibliotheca CloudLibrary (3,000 public libraries) and Odilo (2,100 public libraries in North America, South America and Europe).

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For additional information about some of the angles, trends, and data that SportsInsights focuses on (that has led to profitable starts to the NBA and NHL seasons — and a 70 % college football and 60 % NFL 2010 season to date), please check out our article on «betting against the Public» in the NCAA Football sports marketplace as well as our books on Sports Investing available at Amazon or in electronic Ebook format.

«By providing free resources such as downloadable eBooks and music, WiFi, public computers, technology classes, materials and lessons for English - language learners, health fairs and programs for job seekers, libraries and librarians are transforming our community each and every day.»

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System has more than 3 million materials available for borrowing through the 37 branch and bookmobile system including downloadable eBooks, music and video, DVDs and books on CD.

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System has more than 3 million materials available for borrowing through the 37 - branch system including downloadable eBooks, music and video, DVDs and books on CD.

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System has more than 3 million materials available for borrowing including books, eBooks, DVDs, music and more.

Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries have more than 3 million materials available for borrowing including books, eBooks, DVDs, music and more.

The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System has more than 3 million materials available for borrowing through the 37 - branch system including downloadable eBooks and music, DVDs and books on CD.

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

When you think about checking out ebooks from public libraries for free, OverDrive is the first company that comes to mind.

The world's largest online retailer and the huge publisher have for months been in a nasty and at times public battle reportedly over the share each company would get for eBook sales.

From the OverDrive ebook section of your public library, you can choose to view «Additional Titles to Recommend» from the search results page after running a search or from the different lists for categories and sections.

You can also borrow audiobooks from public libraries for free with a library card, much like ebooks.

I was asked a few weeks ago to create a cheat sheet for eBooks so our staff could have something to reference and handout to the public.

The day started with «Original Research on the Growing Importance of eBooks in Library Collections,» an overview of the Public, School and Academic ebook Survey with Ian Singer, VP, Content & Business Development for Media Source, Inc..

For instance, in March 2012, nearly 60 percent of readers browsed — defined as exploring the catalog without a targeted search term — public library ebook collections to discover new content.

More and more public library offer up eBook downloads in the EPUB format, Naturally this is great news for the EPUB fans, but more importantly it's great for the general public at large.

Of course, this is a million eBooks total, none of the eBooks are million sellers on their own, while sites such as Project Gutenberg, The World Public Library, and The Internet Archive have each had a number of «million seller eBooks» if you will allow that term for non-profit organizations.

Take for instance, 76 % of public libraries surveyed said that ebooks have brought new users to the library.

Ingram is a huge aggregator of books, ebooks, and other content for the retail market, and today I learned that they're entering the public library market as well.

The trends in other industries will affect consumer expectations in publishing — and in small ways, it already has, with a movement geared to opening copyrighted works to the public, and the US Department of Justice suing all of the «big six» and Apple for price fixing (iBookstore prices differ widely from Amazon's), which will likely give Amazon the upper hand in setting ebook prices in the long run.

As I said in a previous post, once again I'm dependent on public library borrows for most of my books, and though they have access to some eBooks through Overdrive, most of the books I'm looking for are not among them.

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.

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 new venture will make it even easier for patrons to browse the ebook offerings in their local public libraries, as well as allow them to continue... [Read more...]

Here are details for each the three agreements: Odilo is a leading ebook supplier to over 2,100 public libraries in 43 countries... [Read more...]

An agreement announced today between ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for libraries to... [Read more...]

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.

If you are a regular visitor to the New York Public library to browse their selection of eBooks, you are in for a treat.

Either we take example of France and Canada, who have recognised industry data on ebooks / books as a matter of public interest, and therefore subsidise them, or we completely change the business model, and actually have the people who benefit from the data pay for it.

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.

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, one of the leading sources of loanable digital content for public and school libraries, was represented by Potash, who spoke about the statistics that show library patrons are more likely to purchase a title after having borrowed the ebook.

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.

The Toronto Public Library has implemented the ability for customers to buy ebooks via their website through a new affiliate program with Indigo Books.

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.

Since the CLA does not have a voice in government, many smaller libraries banded together on a grassroots level to launch the «Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Ebook Pricing» website.

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.

Rene d'Entremont, the Director of Public Relations at Kobo stated to Good e-Reader that «Rakuten Kobo has entered into an agreement with Deutsche Telekom for the purchase of assets related to eBook technology, and will share details as they become available.»

The New York City Department of Education is about to approve a $ 30 million dollar contract with Amazon to create a single, massive ebook marketplace for the city's 1,800 public schools.

eBooks for Libraries is a site run by a librarian and sponsored by Library Renewal and the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library.

According to a press release on this second installment in the Big Library Read, «Based on the success of the first Big Library Read in May, schools were invited for the first time to join public libraries to enjoy the benefits of no - cost, simultaneous access to a popular children's eBook.

We are staff librarians who work at OverDrive, the leading app for eBooks and audiobooks from public libraries and schools.

One thing that the eBook publishing revolution has brought us is the ability for any rights holder — businesses, universities, associations, museums, teams, etc — to offer eBook formatted information to the public.