Sentences with phrase «from ebook licensing»

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Initially, we made ebooks from blogs that were already released in Creative Commons licenses.

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.

From licensing agreements over how many ebook checkouts a single library can use to how to put audio content on patrons» personal devices, the options have been not only limited, they've been somewhat cost prohibitive.

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 consortium.

The company operated under an anti - piracy / pro-book access model that licensed ebooks from publishers to be sold via photocopy shops across various regions in Africa.

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.

Includes: Front cover, spine, and back cover design Ebook cover Four to six custom designs to choose from Up to ten quality, high resolution, fully licensed, royalty free stock art images * Typography with quality, commercially licensed fonts ** Up to ten rounds of revisions One Facebook cover image One 728x90 banner ad 3D book image Audiobook design

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.

When you buy an eBook from Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Kobo you don't actually own it, you are basically just buying a temporary license.

b) Unless a Video Stills License is procured, you may not use «stills» derived from Footage in ebook covers, or printed book covers, or any type of printed matter.

ReadersFirst seamlessly got licensed content from OverDrive, 3M, and Axis 360 plus Open Access content from Project Gutenberg, Unglue.it, and Standard eBooks (OPen Access content which may be kept perpetually).

Here, let me summarize a report (from January 25, 2013) from the Digital Content & Libraries Working Group (DCWG) that discusses the 15 items in The Ebook Business Model Scorebook used to create library licensing agreements or contracts.

The shift from Nook e-readers and ebooks from being a singular part of Barnes and Nobles bookstore chain and spinning off into its autonomous entity was a strong precursor to licensing its ecosystem to other companies.

Indeed, many common social practices — sharing books among friends, inheriting books from one's parents or grandparents — don't apply to ebooks in meaningful ways, unless the license agreement makes special provisions to allow it, and service providers like Apple and Amazon made the appropriate provisions.

The ability to continue to use a book on a reading platform; to move it from one platform to another (say, in replacing an old reader with a new one); or to transfer a license, if permitted, all depend on the ebook provider continuing to exist and operating the necessary infrastructure to validate your license.

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.

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.

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

The remaining 8 boards continue to purchase / license ebooks from Random House.

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.

Another thing I read from time to time is that you need a license to use certain font type in ebooks.

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 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 products.

And I'm certainly not going to license InDesign for an entire staff of ebook designers anticipating the day the work flow from print - to - ebook makes more sense.

If it does not, we have a list of fonts that you can choose from to use in place of it and that do not have any licensing restrictions when embedded in eBooks.

If the waiting list gets too long, they will license another eBook from you.

Fonts synced from Typekit are licensed for embedding in any ebook format which adequately protects the font data such as EPUB, iBooks, Kindle (mobi), Adobe's Digital Publishing Suite (DPS), and PDF.

Earlier in the year, HarperCollins had created a brouhaha in the library world by changing the acquisition terms of its ebooks for libraries from licensing to 26 circulations before an ebook would have to be purchased again.

The library world was thrilled at the September 21 announcement that library vendor OverDrive had enabled its library customers to loan the ebooks they'd licensed from OverDrive to patrons with Kindle e-readers — provided that the ebooks were in Kindle - maker Amazon's sales inventory.

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.»

Ah, and here's where eBooks and physical books diverge, and is the source of 99 % of my frustration with the format (also from the License Agreement):

We know when we buy ebooks from Amazon, B&N, etc., we don't really own those products; we're simply licensing them.

All the major retailers of ebooks either have their own DRM or license it from Adobe: Google (own and Adobe), Apple (own), Kindle (own), Mobipocket (own and different from Kindle), Nook (own), Waterstones, Gardners etc. (ACS4).

We have implemented some of these in Books4Spain (exclusively online and specialising in books about Spain)-- both on the website and on our blog, for example: independent «expert» reviews author interviews and links to them and author blog from book result page on our website ability to but non DRM ebooks and Kindle books direct Win books competitions Lots of added value content on blog Our favourites, special offers, recommended books, popular books and featured authors on website All this via a software platform which we have developed in - house and re Hildick - Smith warning that entering digital book retail is very, very expensive — that is not necessarily the case since we intend to license our software platform on a white label ASP basis to other independents (retailers and publishers) at a very reasonable price.

What I got from the session was that law librarians (outside of universities, at least) are all in the same situation at the moment regards to eBooks: we are waiting for eBooks that reflect how our clients use our library materials, and which a) do not have overly restrictive licensing, b) are not horrendously expensive and c) are reasonably easy for clients to use.