Which is precisely what you don't want
from electronic content these days — you want content to adapt to the best possible representation on a given device.
Those with the know - how and drive to create their masterpieces for the digital consumer are enjoying the doors that
electronic content brings to the table.
They've also developed a network of retail partners, including many independent bookstores that would otherwise not be able to
deliver electronic content to their customers.
... a user might utilize a device such as an electronic book reader or a portable media device to read a book, newspaper, or other
such electronic content.
Across all the company's units,
selling electronic content and services, usually on a subscription basis, generates the bulk of revenues.
In the exhibit hall, these topics are driving the evolution of innovative library technology, as vendors display products designed to both adapt and grow with the next stages of
electronic content management and delivery.
ClickBank, a leading online storefront
for electronic content, announced on June 2nd that it has partnered with Easypress Technologies, a longtime source for print to web content and now, instant epub conversion through its EasyEPub imprint.
OPDS Catalogs are now more generic to open the door to other
electronic content in the future (audio / video, comics etc..)
For libraries, eResource Central enables cost savings and simplifies the process of delivering content from multiple sources and formats to users by managing licensing and access rights; automatically updating metadata for library e-resources; integrating e-resource usage into circulation reporting; and
managing electronic content acquisition and delivery.
«We increased checkout and holds limits early in the year and lowered holds ratios periodically to get more copies in circulation,» said Kady Ferris,
Electronic Content Librarian from Multnomah County Library in Oregon.
According to Melville House, the best way to bring customers into a brick - and - mortar store is to give them
quasi-interactive electronic content that they would not have on their own, at least not... [Read more...]
For libraries and library staff, eResource Central enables cost savings and simplifies the process of delivering content of disparate sources and formats to users by managing licensing and access rights; maintaining MARC records and metadata for library e-resources; integrating e-resource usage into circulation reporting; and managing
electronic content acquisition and creation.
With the relative newness of digital licensing and the growing opportunities for
licensing electronic content (including on social networking sites), there are a number of misconceptions already developing.
Granted, those business segments are still dwarfed by OverDrive's core business: 95 % of all U.S. public libraries use the company's technology to lend out ebooks, audiobooks and
other electronic content — content that disappears when the lending period ends.
Instead of
presenting electronic content one line at a time, this display would translate words and images into tactile displays consisting of up to 25 rows, each with 40 cells side by side.
And the field is advancing quickly: last September, Google received a patent on technology that lets a company dynamically
price electronic content.
NuvoMedia wanted to become «the electronic book distribution solution, by providing a networking infrastructure for publishers, retailers and end users to publish, distribute, purchase and
read electronic content securely and efficiently on the internet».
This resulted in these two companies disabling the functionality to
buy electronic content through their official iOS apps.
From book trailers to testimonials you can publish your
own electronic content on YouTube and share it with the world.
Yes, I entirely understand and really agree that if there is no physical medium being purchased, I should not pay for that physical medium (even though it does, indeed, take money to have
electronic content available.
A heartening 99 % say they visit their public library in person as opposed to just
borrowing electronic content online, and 66 % also visit their library online.
Digital Content: The Service enables you to download, display and use comic books and other
digitized electronic content as made available by comiXology from time to time (individually and collectively, «Digital Content»).
And Bills said that B&T, given its established ties with the publishing houses on the print side, was in a unique position to advocate for
greater electronic content availability for libraries.
I look forward to more observations and empirical studies of connecting inquiring minds to
engaging electronic content by interesting authors.
In addition to augmenting ProQuest's selection of ebooks with MyiLibrary's 250,000 titles, a larger plan involves leveraging Coutts» collection - building expertise, approval support, and ordering tools to begin developing a fully integrated service that streamlines the acquisition and fulfillment of print and
electronic content together.
Elsevier electronic content is also available through library aggregators using several purchase options (perpetual access, patron - driven acquisition, short - term lending).
In California, sales tax is only for tangibles... Not services,
not electronic content... Buy software on CD: pay tax.
The distribution of
electronic content inherently involves a destructive / reconstructive process that challenges the perceived stability and continuity that were early dinstinctives of photography.
And, all along, we have been creating
more electronic content and struggling with the various copyright issues (issues which are aptly documented on these Slaw pages).
The Library of Congress was
producing electronic content long before the Web even existed, so it's fitting today that we become one of a (surprisingly) small handful of federal agencies with a bona fide blog.