Sentences with phrase «ebooks from my library through»

All you have to do is enter your library card number and that's it, you're good to borrow ebooks from your library through the Kobo store.

I also get a lot of ebooks from my library through Overdrive.

For ereaders that support Adobe EPUB, you can download free ebooks from libraries through a service called Overdrive with a valid library card.

Not exact matches

Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital... [Read more...]

From the very beginning of digital lending through libraries and personal consumer shares, publishers have been wary of the implications of ebook lending.

According to Library Journal's «2013 Report on E-Books in Public Libraries», where 89 % of US public libraries offer eBooks, collection size and circulation have increased: 45 % increase in median number of e-books between 2012 (5,080) and 2013 (7,380) 145 % circulation increase from 2011 to 2012 (with anticipated 2013 increase of +38.9 %) These numbers reflect all points of access, including those directly licensed or purchased by an individual library and those available through a coLibraries», where 89 % of US public libraries offer eBooks, collection size and circulation have increased: 45 % increase in median number of e-books between 2012 (5,080) and 2013 (7,380) 145 % circulation increase from 2011 to 2012 (with anticipated 2013 increase of +38.9 %) These numbers reflect all points of access, including those directly licensed or purchased by an individual library and those available through a colibraries offer eBooks, collection size and circulation have increased: 45 % increase in median number of e-books between 2012 (5,080) and 2013 (7,380) 145 % circulation increase from 2011 to 2012 (with anticipated 2013 increase of +38.9 %) These numbers reflect all points of access, including those directly licensed or purchased by an individual library and those available through a consortium.

Since then, library ebooks have been provided through siloed, vertically integrated systems in which users can discover and borrow books from a given vendor only in that vendor's website and apps.

According to the recent report in American Libraries, when ALA President Molly Raphael met with the Big 6 publishers in New York recently, many of the executives from those publishers were laboring under the mistaken belief libraries loaned ebooks to anyone who happened to click through their Libraries, when ALA President Molly Raphael met with the Big 6 publishers in New York recently, many of the executives from those publishers were laboring under the mistaken belief libraries loaned ebooks to anyone who happened to click through their libraries loaned ebooks to anyone who happened to click through their websites.

When an ebook is borrowed through the library, the patron selects a pre-determined amount of time to have the book and then the ebook is removed from the device; in some cases, the borrow period is as much as 21 days.

You can browse the books from the bookstores through the inbuilt browser and download them directly, and if you use your Dropbox to store your ebooks, you can access them directly through this app and import them to your library.

The software between the two models is identical as well, with one exception: the Kobo Aura One supports OverDrive directly so you can download library ebooks for free from public libraries through the Kobo store.

If you've got an Android or iOS device, Nook, BeBook or readers from Sony, you'll be able to download them through Pottermore, and store it in your Google eBooks library.

We are actively working to persuade libraries to purchase titles - and keep them forever - through our service, instead of continually licensing ebooks at higher prices from other services.

Of 30 titles, all 30 are available as library ebooks from OverDrive and 29 are available through 3M.

If a patron used the EAF app to download ebooks from our catalog, tries five titles, and can't get through any of them because they aren't good, that patron will stop borrowing our titles because they no longer trust us, and libraries will stop buying our catalog.

In the same year, eBooks could be borrowed from libraries through a link that was created by Sony with the help of Overdrive Digital Network.

Public Library Online currently makes ebooks available to libraries through its subscription service from a wide variety of publishers.

A press release from OverDrive was issued this morning that stated the Harry Potter eBooks will be issued to public and school libraries through OverDrive.

Interview — David Risher, a co-founder of Worldreader.org, spoke with me on March 22, 2010, from Barcelona about a truly inspiring effort to provide a library for every child in every family, through eBooks.

I could use it for ebooks from the library, if I was willing to jump through some hoops (that process was fairly teeth - grinding the first time).

Would making ebooks cheaply and easily available for borrowing (either through libraries or directly from the source) combat piracy?

Note from Jane Friedman: Earlier this month, I featured a guest post on how self - published authors can distribute their ebooks to libraries, through the SELF - e program from Library Journal and BiblioBoard.

I think there are many cases in which an ebook that's having trouble breaking through that «wall of content» these days (and few titles aren't fighting an uphill battle) can benefit from opening up this vast library audience.

Integrating new options into the way people discover, use, and contribute to the record of scholarship can be exhausting, and someone who hears about a new novel may have trouble getting it because it's not available through their library, their favorite bookstore can't carry it, it's in the wrong ebook format, or it's only available to people living in a different geographic region, which seems insane since their Facebook friends who are raving about it have no trouble expressing themselves from a different continent.

First of all there is a really good blog page called eBook Library Services for Authors and Alliance of Independent Authors Report published on July 23, 2015 on Selfpublishingadvice.org which is from the Alliance of Independent Authors and they actually go through some of the options for getting Indie authors into eBooks into libraries.

Leaders from top library companies weighed in on this issue during an hour - long discussion held before a gathering of publishers, booksellers, and librarians, aiming to debunk lingering misunderstandings about ways in which libraries affect retail sales of ebooks and digital content, and to inform publishers of new tools that have been developed to market, manage, and even sell digital content through libraries.

It will allow all the libraries that have purchased ebooks from more than one vendor, including OverDrive, 3M's Cloud Library, and Baker & Taylor's Access 360 product, to seamlessly serve all those collections through a single application.

And there currently isn't any way to download free public domain ebooks from Google or library ebooks through OverDrive; you have to use your computer to download these and then transfer them over with the USB cable.

We should try out new business models in our dealings with rights holders: Buy directly from rights holders, including authors; host your own ebook content; or offer library users the choice of purchasing ebooks through the library catalog when the waitlist is too long.

This explains why trade statistics from September last year show that six times as many ebooks were distributed through the library network than through all commercial outlets combined.

As Brookes describes: «ebook aggregators are companies that take a file from the user, convert it into multiple formats and make it available through multiple distribution channels (platforms, stores, libraries).»

Since launching the Free Content Alerts column, which highlights sites and platforms where ebooks and econtent may be downloaded and read for free, we've brought to our readers» attention 10 great sites to recommend to anyone looking for quality content online in digital format, particularly those unable to access quality ebooks through their local libraries, ranging from classics to professional literature and from popular fiction to scholarly monographs.

Kindle Unlimited is, in fact, hardly different from the public library ebook loan system which is available for free through installing the OverDrive app.