Sentences with phrase «for ebook licensing»

Penguin Random House today announced a new unified, companywide terms of sale (TOS) policy for ebook licenses sold to public, school, and other libraries working with approved ebook vendors in the United States and Canada.

It began with a February 24 email (PDF file) from OverDrive CEO Steve Potash alerting customers that «Publishers are expressing concern and debating their digital future where a single eBook license to a library may never expire, never wear out, and never need replacement» and that one firm (which turned out to be HarperCollins) had decided to solve the problem it perceived by establishing «a checkout limit for each eBook licensed.»

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The eBook, «How to License or Sell Your Ideas; 7 Steps to License for Recurring Royalties or Sell for a Lump Sum» covers all the important topics step - by - step.

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You hereby grant to Barnes & Noble, its distributors, licensees and partners a non-exclusive, worldwide, irrevocable right and license to make your eBooks available for sale, marketing, display, distribution and promotion in any commercially available electronic or digitized format or on any electronic device platform whether now existing or hereafter created or developed.

Here are some book review and ebook review sites I recommend at the moment: Complete Review (Translated fiction with links to other reviews), Literary License (new novels), Chamberfour.com (group literary review blog), Books Blog (Guardian group blog), Quarterly Conversation (extended book review essays), Black Sheep Dances (longer reviews of translated fiction), Mumpsimus (eclectic reviews of books and movies with a slight preference for speculative stuff) and Mary Whipple's Seeing the World Through Books.

For highly designed titles, a digital production expert will also encourage typographical choices that can be maintained in the ebook — slamming the door on PostScript fonts or opening up the already ebook - licensed OTF / TTF cabinet for designeFor highly designed titles, a digital production expert will also encourage typographical choices that can be maintained in the ebook — slamming the door on PostScript fonts or opening up the already ebook - licensed OTF / TTF cabinet for designefor designers.

SEATTLE, Apr 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Ian Fleming Publications Ltd today announced that Amazon Publishing has acquired a ten - year license for North American rights to the entire list of James Bond books by Ian Fleming in print and ebook.

The license for the eBook is irrevocably tied to the buyer's ADE account and machine (s).

eBook availability in EU libraries varies significantly from country to country depending upon factors such as the funding available for library purchasing, indigenous publishing practice, library governance structure and preferred licensing regimes.

Hugh's advice for publishers is to eliminate things that annoy him (non-compete clauses, length - of - copyright licenses, New York City offices) and to lower prices, give away ebooks with hardcover purchases, and pay authors monthly.

There are no consistent licensing terms for libraries to purchase eBooks and many publishers have yet to opt into the idea that distributing their digital content does not devalue the product.

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.

The program makes several of its most popular children's and middle grade titles available through ebook distributors Booksource, Follett, Mackin Educational Resources, and Perma - Bound, allowing classrooms to purchase a one - year license for the book as many schools already have systems in place to finance software licenses.

This License Agreement permits you to install the ebook on any and all your devices for your personal use only.

Before converting print books to ebook formats, it is useful for an editor to page quickly through the book and provide a list of figures to exclude from the ebook version, replaced with a simple notice saying» Figure removed due to licensing restrictions».

The main purpose of our new report, «Ebook Licensing Guide for Public Libraries and Publishers,» resulting from the collaboration between Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those moEbook Licensing Guide for Public Libraries and Publishers,» resulting from the collaboration between Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to thosLicensing Guide for Public Libraries and Publishers,» resulting from the collaboration between Publishing Perspectives, the leading international book publishing news and opinion magazine; Bookwire, a platform specializing in the worldwide distribution of more than 100,000 ebooks and audiobooks of more than 1.000 publishers from around the world, and Dosdoce.com, a company specializing in the development of digital business models, is to provide professionals in the book world with a broader insight into the numerous opportunities offered by new ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those moebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to thoslicensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those models.

National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation program to give grants to publishers create eBooks under a Creative Commons license

When you get to the final tab in the KDP publishing process — Kindle eBook Pricing — after Amazon tries to lure you into its fools - gold KDP Select program and asks you what territories you hold the distribution rights for (in most cases, «All territories» — unless you've licensed some away), there's a panel titled Royalty and Pricing — the cause of our anxiety.

Read it» without having to purchase another license for most ebooks I find them a bit less convenient (though the «big book issue definitely does come up)

To address the needs of publishers who want to embed fonts into eBooks, Monotype Imaging is introducing a simple and low - cost font licensing model for eBooks.

The Monotype Imaging eBook Font License provides the necessary licensing rights to embed fonts into eBook products for commercial distribution.

Since the very premise of Google eBooks is for people to read the ebooks on their e-readers and other devices, this was a smart move to license the techneBooks is for people to read the ebooks on their e-readers and other devices, this was a smart move to license the technebooks on their e-readers and other devices, this was a smart move to license the technology.

Here is a bit of news from the Adobe camp, Google has licensed their Adobe Content 4 software for the encryption of the Google eBooks offered in both ePub and PDF format.

Additionally, she briefly discussed future plans for a Subscription - based licensing of ebooks, as well as the recently launched initiative to license select titles to classrooms on a one - year time frame.

Libraries that do business with them often have their website automatically populated with the audiobooks, videos, and eBooks they have licensed for their collections.

If you pay $ 9.99, or any price, for an ebook of Green, you acquire a license to download and view a specific software offering.

This report discusses what libraries must consider before they will license and agree to for the long - term, permanent purchase and use of ebooks.

I enjoy the ease of purchasing an eBook license, even though I do think I should be buying the * eBook * not a * users license * for it.

SkyInk is also in negotiations with a major data provider to license a substantial number of ebooks for the platform.

Also in the discussions was the policy on ebook licensing rights that allow libraries to retain ownership after purchasing a digital title for their catalogs through 3M, even if opting to select a competitor for ebooks later on.

Unlike some other Fremium account - based companies, the ebooks will not have any ads or watermarks, and can be licensed for commercial use as well as non-commercial.

Prior to the merger of Penguin and Random House in July 2013, the two publishers had entirely different terms for library licensing of their ebooks.

Prior to the merger of Penguin and Random House in July 2013, the two publishers had entirely different terms for library... Continue reading Penguin Random House Ebooks Now Licensed for Perpetual Access →

For clarification - there are 9 regional library boards in Nova Scotia; only one board, the South Shore Public Libraries board, is boycotting Random House ebook licenses.

While it is possible to construct perpetual license agreements that make provision for digital preservation and to develop communitywide preservation mechanisms (as has been done with scholarly journals, where research libraries are usually the dominant part of the marketplace), we are far away from seeing such enabling terms and conditions in mass - market ebook licenses.

With ebooks and license agreements, they can essentially opt not do business with libraries (by not allowing circulation as a permitted activity under the license offered) or charge libraries at differential (much higher) rates, as well as manipulating availability (for example, no bestsellers in the library till a year after consumer release).

Among the many reasons Stallman gives for boycotting Amazon are that the company sells ebooks and digital music that deprives customers of their rights through restrictive licensing, that the Amazon Kindle - or Swindle, as he calls it - uses proprietary software and contains backdoors through which Amazon can delete books and update software, that the company reportedly abuses its employees by making them work in sweatshops, and that it hurts independent bookstores, small publishers, and authors through its near - monopoly power.

He admits that they may not be able to add support for reading DRM - encrypted ebooks, since «Neither Apple nor Amazon will license their DRM systems, and while Adobe will license Adobe Digital Editions, it's a six - figure cost...».

It seems when Amazon opened its ebook store in China, it applied for a license from the government but was not approved.

From the post: For readers new to this blog, «ungluing ebooks» is what I'm calling the process of raising money to make creative - commons licensed ebook editions of the books that you love, so that everyone, everywhere can read them.

Amazon Publishing has just struck a deal with Ian Fleming Publications for a ten year license to the print and eBooks.

Look at all the things Libraries will have to pay for — eReaders, eBooks, licenses, buildings, staff, and so forth.

It's easy to see an Amazon Used Ebooks Store simply being a way for the company (and publishers) to sell the same content license over and over again, without much real benefit to readers or customers.

Smashwords Edition, License Notes This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only.

However, the issue is that, aside from it being very difficult to convince libraries to license ebooks, there is currently little opportunity for authors.

For a story, it might have been written on paper (or not), but you can license or sell it as a paperback, as a hardcover, in English, in Polish, in ebook, in Indian translation, in audio, as the basis for a movie, a play, or tv show, or all of the aboFor a story, it might have been written on paper (or not), but you can license or sell it as a paperback, as a hardcover, in English, in Polish, in ebook, in Indian translation, in audio, as the basis for a movie, a play, or tv show, or all of the abofor a movie, a play, or tv show, or all of the above.

For me, the penny dropped when Penguin CEO Margaret Thompson told us that, while local retailers are not banging down the door demanding ebooks to sell, there's increasing demand from companies who want to license content for use in their own digital producFor me, the penny dropped when Penguin CEO Margaret Thompson told us that, while local retailers are not banging down the door demanding ebooks to sell, there's increasing demand from companies who want to license content for use in their own digital producfor use in their own digital products.

If the current status quo (Kindle in the lead and Nook and Sony Reader eating up most of the rest of the market) continues then we will see rival eReader companies try to use an exchange system («ebook ownership for life») to beat locked - in formats («ebook license for one device / platform»).

Some fonts falls under the SIL Open Font License [OFL], and you may use those for eBooks and print at no charge.