This coincides with the existing agreements that Smashwords already has to put tiers of ebooks
into public library ebook lending circulation.
Not exact matches
Baker and Taylor has just expanded
into New Zealand, giving
public libraries the ability to loan out
eBooks and audiobooks.
The UK government is seriously looking
into compensating authors when their
ebooks are borrowed from
public libraries.
The essence of the pilot is to carry out real - time, real - world research
into the impact of
eBook lending in
public libraries on authors, publishers and on the
library service so that a suitable and sustainable model.
3) since
public library patrons are skewed, economically, to the less affluent among us,
ebooks and particularly female authored
ebooks may not get
into everyone's hands until
ebook tech (ereaders) will be borrowable.
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 mo
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 mo
ebook licensing models and to dissipate any doubts or preconceived ideas in relation to those models.
Pressbooks
Public is an indie author platform that turns public libraries into writing centers for local authors, helping them to format their books for distribution in library collections, and commercial ebook and print - on - demand cha
Public is an indie author platform that turns
public libraries into writing centers for local authors, helping them to format their books for distribution in library collections, and commercial ebook and print - on - demand cha
public libraries into writing centers for local authors, helping them to format their books for distribution in
library collections, and commercial
ebook and print - on - demand channels.
Amazon's entry
into public libraries and their own lending process through the Prime program has just quadrupled the activity in
ebook lending.
Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in publishing and I started out on the
ebook side working for OverDrive, a major distributor of
ebooks at
public libraries, and focusing on
ebooks, so much of it is about the metadata, not just getting books
into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I got to know a lot and here I am
With Draft2Digital adding OverDrive as one of its
eBook distribution platforms, indie authors have a new and easy way to get their books
into more than 38,000
public, corporate, and school
libraries, in 40 + countries worldwide.
as one of its
eBook distribution platforms, indie authors have a new and easy way to get their books
into more than 38,000
public, corporate, and school
libraries, in 40 + countries worldwide.
The goal was to establish real - time, real - world research
into the impact of
eBook lending in
public libraries to placate authors, publishers and find a sustainable model.
When dealing with the
public library market, the biggest challenge for EBSCO is diversification
into popular content, particularly from the Big Six publishers (only two of which actually make their new
ebooks available to
public libraries).
But by teaming up with OverDrive, a leading distributor of
ebooks and other digital content and tapping
into their extensive network of school and
public libraries, the Amazon Kindle and Kindle apps (on PC and mobile devices) will help to improve the accessibility of literature in the transforming digital age of our treasured
libraries.
The survey also digs
into just how
libraries are serving up
ebooks — for instance, 15 % of
public libraries and 12 % of academics currently circulate preloaded devices, and 26 % and 22 %, respectively, expect to in the future.
A FREZ turns
public and private spaces
into open virtual
libraries, providing people with free and uninterrupted access to
ebooks through sponsorships.
Two years ago, publisher William Sieghart's review
into remote e-lending said that
public libraries should be able to lend
ebooks remotely.
Other
ebook providers, such as Ingram, which is preparing for a major push over the next few months
into the
public library market with its MyiLibrary platform, and Baker & Taylor, which has been making inroads with its Axis 360 platform, said they are also discussing various degrees of integration.
Carla Sarratt, an indie author and Virtual Services Librarian at New Hanover County
Public Library (NHCPL), recalls her first - hand experience of the challenges that the survey sites — which she has faced as both an author and a librarian — of getting self - published
ebooks into libraries.