That said, the DRM issues are a significant barrier that is stopping aggressive adoption of this standard
in ebrary's market.
Not exact matches
ebrary will be demonstrating its solution for government libraries
in the ProQuest booth # 600 at SLA, July 15 through 17
in Chicago, IL.
«
ebrary believes
in supplying researchers with the most content possible while providing libraries with flexible options to achieve the greatest return on their investment.
More than 6,300 students worldwide took part
in a library - based study commissioned by
ebrary to determine their attitudes towards digital reading.
ebrary won a government contract a month ago that put it
in the unique position of being the only ebook business on the government buyers list.
EBL and
ebrary content will continue to be supported
in the combined OASIS platform.
I teach our distance learners how to search for books
in the catalog AND
eBrary, even though our catalog contains the
eBrary MARC records.
«
ebrary was surprised to see such a variation of results
in the UK,» said Kevin Sayar, President and General Manager of
ebrary,
in a press release today.
Specifically
in reaching out to Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway, and Sweden,
ebrary is furthering the global reach of digital publishing, as well as helping authors and publishers with their discoverability
in finding whole new customer bases.
Kathy Masnik,
ebrary director of product management told us, «We are already seeing a shift
in the market toward using HTML5 to implement sophisticated ebook products.
With the growth of Android powered devices and the popularity of tablets such as the Kindle Fire and the Nook tablet, whose app marketplaces give Amazon and Barnes and Noble customers a centralized location for finding apps,
ebrary's response to the Android market is well - timed and the distributor joins an ever - growing list of companies who are working
in both the iOS and Android platforms.
Kathy from
ebrary mentioned, «
Ebrary plans to continue maintaining dedicated apps for iOS and Android
in the near future.
«
ebrary believes
in supporting both students and teachers with the most relevant content available while providing libraries with flexible acquisition options to achieve the greatest return on their investment.
«
ebrary possesses an ideal combination of rich understanding of customer needs — reflected
in their breadth and depth of e-books and robust technology — and flexibility
in trying new models that allow libraries to work more efficiently.»
This not only entails aggregating vast amounts of content but also packaging it
in a way that is digestible and makes sense for the researcher,» said Leslie Lees,
ebrary's Vice President of Content Development,
in a press release.
«We are delighted to make our ebooks available to libraries through
ebrary in order to meet the research needs of our end - users,» said Dr. Karin Timme, Publisher at Frank & Timme.
Along with the usual interactive tools like hyperlinks, embedded videos, and
ebrary's InfoTools which allows words
in the text to link directly to more online content,
ebrary also offers its interface
in multiple languages
in keeping with the global push
in educational standards.
«At this point
in time,
ebrary is
in investigation for how to support both ingestion of EPUB3 content and display of this format.
ebrary's Android app allows for online and offline reading, a benefit that more and more companies are working toward
in order to give consumers the option of downloading content prior to entering areas of low coverage.
«With the growing demand for digital content, we are committed to offering content
in multiple languages,» said Leslie Lees, vice president of content development for
ebrary,
in a press release.
ebrary is currently working with academic libraries
in Germany, but the popularity of ebook lending
in the current climate of VAT can easily spark the crossover to public libraries.
Many of our members subscribe to
ebrary's Academic Complete ™ database and purchase essential titles outright,» said Melissa Trevvett, Executive Director at Boston Library Consortium,
in a press release.
ebrary, a ProQuest company, announced today that it is expanding its reach into non-English speaking markets, specifically the Nordic regions,
in order to bring ebook content to those areas that could currently be considered not worth it by most major ebook retailers and distributors.
Amazon would I think be thrilled if public libraries failed
in lending ebooks, not because they're worried about theft (OverDrive,
ebrary et al, protect their ebooks with more robust DRM than Amazon does).
The online
ebrary reader, for example, is by no means suitable for tablet browsers
in any case: the text can appear rather blurry and you can not highlight or underline any text at all, because when you try, you just move the whole text sideways.
In a statement to the press, ProQuest CEO Kurt Sanford said that the company viewed EBL's business models and acquisition tools as complementary to
ebrary's core platform technology, subscription service, and content selection.
They plan to merge EBLs platform with
ebrary, which ProQuest acquired
in January 2011.
«Within ProQuest, Books
In Print is used as a key bibliographic component for a variety of services, from Intota Assessment to Syndetic Solutions to building the new ebook platform for
ebrary and EBL.
In an upcoming pilot program the consortium is planning to undertake with YBP, ebrary, and Ebook Library, he said, it would focus on several issues — such as which publishers would participate; making PDA - candidate records properly viewable in the union catalog; controlling spending on materials; and avoiding buying the same materials in both electronic and print version
In an upcoming pilot program the consortium is planning to undertake with YBP,
ebrary, and Ebook Library, he said, it would focus on several issues — such as which publishers would participate; making PDA - candidate records properly viewable
in the union catalog; controlling spending on materials; and avoiding buying the same materials in both electronic and print version
in the union catalog; controlling spending on materials; and avoiding buying the same materials
in both electronic and print version
in both electronic and print versions.
As an example, we have created Intranet pages that list all the textbooks
in the Irwin Law
eBrary that we have access to.