Sentences with phrase «how ebook lending»

Recently at Good e-Reader we wrote an article on the future of eBook piracy and how eBook lending clubs will facilitate their demise.

Tempelis spoke on the recent collaboration between digital media collection OverDrive and Sourcebooks, a project which sought to provide definitive numbers to the industry about how ebook lending impacts future sales of the title and of the author's and publisher's other books.

There are lots of questions on how ebook lending services work.

The Literary Platform has an absolutely fascinating article about how ebook lending is taking place in Sweden.

By demonstrating how ebook lending can work through this site, he hopes that publishers and libraries can put to rest some of the concerns that both sides have on the issue.

Not exact matches

She took a moment out of her busy schedule to discuss the evolutionary growth of ebooks in the library, how the discovery of content is a top priority, what it took to talk Simon & Schuster and Penguin into joining the library lending model, and how libraries are selling ebooks.

Library lending of ebooks and other digital content is finally gaining a foothold in the industry as publishers and lending institutions come to some measure of agreement on how to make it work.

Just when it seems that libraries and publishers are finally coming to terms on how to make ebook lending feasible, another blow is struck to the libraries and patrons.

While their methods will vary on how they choose to improve ebook lending of their titles, only Simon & Schuster remains the only major US publisher that is not releasing its ebook titles for public library lending in any way.

How «frictionless» will they think the current ebook lending process is?

It was a little clunky at first to do library lending because the libraries were a little sketchy on their educational programs, but since then I've seen library websites with much easier info on how to download ebooks.

Even in the library world, in spite of all the recent discussion about how the Big 6 are deciding whether and how to lend ebooks to libraries, most people can't.

After exploring how libraries can address the needs of patrons of various age demographics, Coates» first issue was that of the physical location of libraries, one impediment that has actually made ebook lending all the more attractive to patrons who wish to borrow books but still live so far away that a trip to the library has to be intentional and justifiable.

We bantered about the new green space and the rise of digital ebooks and how a large Canadian library copes with lending to a large population.

In the same survey, 38 % of students from other countries did not know that their local libraries loaned ebooks, compared with only six percent in the UK, lending a lot of weight to Sayar's assessment that UK students just may be more familiar with where and how to access digital titles.

Anna De Souza had this to say about her company's position on what transpired and how it might effect the future of the ebook lending model.

While other major publishers have been adopters of ebook lending on some scale, Potash's admiration was for a publisher to look at the very clear data on how lending actually supports authors and publishers, and make a strong decision to support it.

In this article, the fourth installment in a series on the initiative to build a Digital Public Library of America, I examine the underlying role of law in the ebook lending debate, explore potential solutions to the problems, and consider how the DPLA can contribute to solutions for those we serve.

On several occasions, we ended up talking about how libraries lend ebooks and how that can affect sales, not unlike the discussions we had with some publishers.

Here's how libraries can legally lend ebooks without having to abide by a publisher's restrictions or licensing:

Admittedly, Raphael had some good things to say about how the publishers are at least willing to listen to the concerns coming from the public libraries and are even interested in continuing the dialog to resolve their own concerns, fears that Raphael even says are not just lip service or an effort to not cooperate with ebook lending.

Recorded Books is separately working on its own library ebook lending program, which will allow publishers a great deal of flexibility in how they make their ebooks available to libraries.

«The Penguin controversy could very well reinforce the feeling among the major houses that it is better to wait on the sidelines to see how some of the issues shake out before getting deeply involved with ebook lending, and it is difficult to see holdouts Simon & Schuster or Macmillan changing their minds soon about entering the OverDrive lending program.»

But it begs the question: how much should ebook lending be constrained (if at all), and how would you do it?

The publisher response wasn't surprising because, while librarians often focus on publishers getting the highest possible price for their ebooks, publishers actually have a second goal which for many is even more important: How do we restrain ebook lending growth so that it doesn't undermine other channels.

So why do librarians think these are excessive returns and how much would they be willing to pay if their ebook lending took a much greater share of the market?

But DRM can also be used to restrict the number and type of devices that a person can use to read an ebook, how many times a person can lend an ebook to others, and even how much of an ebook a person can highlight.

Raphael objected to his idea that libraries could stop lending ebook best sellers, focusing instead on «the backlist; on how we can promote people to read....

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.

The news comes just days after Amazon announced that authors making their books available through the Kindle lending service will now get paid on a sliding scale depending on how much of a borrowed ebook the reader actually gets through.

Conversely, the international trip afforded Raphael the opportunity to learn about how libraries overseas are collaborating and working with publishers to find fair ebook lending solutions.

One of the reasons we're confident going forward is none of the current players have a clue about how to nationalize an ebook lending system that can integrate with every library.