Sentences with phrase «get lent books»

Most people pirate books because of the money factor and most book sharing clubs allow their members to lend and get lent books for free.

Not exact matches

As a Prime member you will also get to download movies and shows so they can be viewed off - line or borrow books from the Kindle lending library.

«Getting funding for a cannabis business presents very unique challenges because you can't just get an SBA, or small business loan, and banks are not going to lend money to you either,» Super Bowl champion and cannabis entrepreneur Marvin Washington told me during an interview for my book with Entrepreneur Media, Start Your Own Cannabis Business.

I modified a recipe I got from my friend Michael and the book he lent me, the Preservation Kitchen.

Holistic Midwifery by Anne Frye This is one of my truly treasured books that I NEVER lend out in fear that it will get lost or misplaced.

The book was far too precious for her to lend to me but she informed me that I could go to a used book store to get a copy.

I too am a hashimotos survivor & felt much better when I did green smoothies from your book the Green smoothie girl which I lent out & never got back but the main cocept was still there & I stayed healthier using your concepts, no cols & flu.

You won't get to see Michael Cera and Alison Pill act out that part of the book, but Adult Swim has made it possible to see the next best thing — Cera and Pill lending their voices to an animated take on the flashback

She can lend her perspective to the media that are covering the news story, and she can get her four - year - old book mentioned as part of the coverage of that news story.

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.

Tangible libraries in small towns have more functions than just lending books, but they also provide parents with an easy way to get their kids out of the home and discovering the love of reading.

There's a cost for them to ingest, manage and lend even free books (Adobe charges libraries for each lend, even of free books), so they're unlikely to want free books that aren't going to get read (there's a need in the marketplace for a free open source DRM checkout system that libraries can use, but that's a matter for another time, and some entrepreneur other than yours truly).

Step 3: If the book is eligible for lending, you will get several fields that you can fill out.

This not only is a personal thing, that lends the assist in the books you want to read this year, but you can view other peoples lists to get inspiration or discover new content.

Since lending sites have all of the latest releases you will never have to really wait too long to get a copy of the book.

Libraries are paying a premium for those titles they can get as ebooks, close to $ 30 for a Random House new release, and have accepted limits in lending such as only 26 check outs for each purchased Harper Collins book, and one person having it checked out at a time.

As you lend books, you'll get more borrow requests.

As an idea of how much greater satisfaction there is for me, in order to get my book eligible to participate in Kindle's free lending program to AMazon Prime members, I had to agree to stop offering the.

So why would they get up in arms about a site lending one book at a time?

They are worried that they will not get paid for books that are lent through this new library.

One thing forgot to mention is with Kindle if you want to get into their «Kindle select» (their lending library where you get royalties when people loan your book out) you do sign an exclusive deal with them but it's only for 90 days with a clear cutoff date when you can re-sign if you want.

That means e-books can now emulate the social exchange of printed books, while avoiding the big pitfall of book - lending: the risk that you won't get your book back.

According to a press release, «As part of her work to support the Get Schooled in Anaphylaxis health initiative, Julie has lent her voice to narrate an online book to raise awareness of and preparedness for life - threatening allergic reactions, or anaphylaxis.

Michael said that one of the factors contributing to the malaise of the book lending industry is getting Publishers to agree to it.

If you do not get into the habit of lending books you can pay $ 1.99 per credit to make a request.

Many eBooks have 14 day lending windows in which you can loan out your book and get it back after the expiration period.

You also get access to the new Lendme service, which allows you to lend bought books to family and friends for a duration of time.

While you have made great progress with the trade houses, we're in the very early days of getting appreciation for library lending of digital books from the textbook publishers and those that are providing the curriculum in the classroom.

Service providers like Overdrive and NetLibrary have arisen to make it possible for libraries to «lend» e-books in a way that is very similar to the way they lend hardcopy books: you get access to the e-book for the library's lending period (perhaps a couple of weeks, or for a reference work, a few hours), and then it «disappears» from your device and becomes available to another library member.

By the time i got the stupid thing working, it said my time for lending was up and the book was no longer available.

She said «eBookFling is an ebook swapping community that helps people get the most out of their e-reading experience by helping them find people to lend books with.»

The book lending niche has around 6 major players with most recently Lendle got served its walking papers with Amazon axing the company from its affiliate program.

I frequent OBPL to get my regular fix of YA lit, but this section of the library has a lot more happening than just lending books!

After a few weeks the book will expire and then get sent back to the pool of lend - able books.

Maybe I just got a book from Overdrive that just doesn't lend itself well to digital format?

For example, if a book accounts for 1.5 percent of all books lent under the program for the month, the author will get that percent of the fund — or $ 7,500 in this case.

But if people are going to get into the regular practice of ebook lending, they will want to be able to lend or borrow as many books as possible, without regard to what price it was at when they acquired it.

In exchange, you get various promotional opportunities, plus you're enrolled in KOLL (the lending library), so you get paid each time someone borrows your book.

On the other hand, DRM prevents people from easily migrating their book across platforms * or lending it to a friend or family member (which incidentally is one way authors get new readers — and new customers.)

And Mathew Ingram voices the parallel exasperation, in Kindle lending: Book publishers still not getting it:

Yeah, it looks an awful lot like an Amazon shopping page and I have to be logged into my Amazon account to get the book... The NYPL's Christopher Platt recently told Publishing Trends that since Kindle added library lending, «Our average new - patron registrations have more than doubled from 80 a day to 172 a day.

But getting back to your scenario, the the library situation is different because libraries are in the business of high - volume lending and it's the purpose for which they buy the books.

Second, yet another major trade book publisher, Penguin, got into a spat with public libraries over e-book lending.

«While my husband and I were going to sleep that night, an idea suddenly occurred to me, and I told him, «Martin, you have to remind me to start a Facebook page in the morning to get people together to lend each other books!»

While you can theoretically lend a print book as often as you want, e-book lending has some nice advantages as well: you don't have to physically meet up or mail the e-book, and you get it back automatically, without having to bug your friend, and without any of the pages dog - earned or damaged.

I shall try out the Kindle Select program, whereby if you make your book exclusive to Amazon for 90 days, it's offered free to premium subscribers as part of the lending library and you will get a share of the Kindle Owner's Lending Library fund.

Enter the Authors Guild who believes that the authors have not given their publishers the right to enlist their books into this lending library, even if they're getting paid for each loan.

You talk about how it justifies the $ 10 ebook price and increases sales because users feel they get more value by being able to lend their books once.

There are a few things you'll probably need for lending — a list of books you've bought that are lendable with the ones you've already read marked out, a list of email addresses of friends and family (the people you would usually recommend books to), some rough sheet or document to list what you've lent and when you get it back, a document that lists which books are most suited to whom since you can only lend a book once.

Not sure what charm and magic B&N used to get this feature included but now Publishers have undermined one of the big advantages of ebooks — They've added back book lending.