Askews & Holts Library Services — Askews & Holts (A&H) is a sister company to Gardners, and operates the UK's
largest library ebook service.
By contrast, Smashwords partner OverDrive, the world's
largest library ebook platform, doesn't support free books and prices all sub - $ 1.99 and free Smashwords ebooks at $ 1.99.
In 2015, Rakuten, the Boston - based owner of Kobo eBooks agreed to purchase Overdrive,
the largest library ebook wholesaler out there.
Library (
the largest library ebook distributors in North America and the UK) are particularly nice additions.
Our industry - leading library distribution reaches OverDrive (world's
largest library ebook platform serving 20,000 + libraries), Baker & Taylor Axis 360, Tolino, Gardners (Askews & Holts and Browns Books for Students), Bibliotheca CloudLibrary (3,000 public libraries) and Odilo (2,100 public libraries in North America, South America and Europe).
Not exact matches
Libraries are the
largest consumer of books in the country, but their relationship with
ebooks has been fraught.
More and more public
library offer up
eBook downloads in the EPUB format, Naturally this is great news for the EPUB fans, but more importantly it's great for the general public at
large.
eBook Platforms: Lessons Learned from Managing Multiple Providers — p. 12 by Trey Shelton, Tara Cataldo, and Amy Buhler — Gives an overview of multiple
eBook platforms from the perspective of a
large academic
library.
The new app should change all of that, as the Nations
largest bookseller makes a serious play to incorporate audio into their extensive
library of
eBooks, magazines, newspapers, graphic novels and movies / television.
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.
As
library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress,
libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the
largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.
Overdrive is the
largest company in the world that facilitates the lending process of
ebooks to your local
library.
A
large majority of Japanese public
libraries do not provide
eBooks at this time.
How do you let the general
library population and the greater community at
large know that you even offer
ebooks?
An agreement announced today between
ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the
largest provider of digital content to public and school
libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for
libraries to... [Read more...]
Baker & Taylor, the world's
largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular
ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school
libraries using the Axis 360 digital... [Read more...]
OverDrive is the world's
largest supplier of digital content to public and school
libraries, but that content isn't only
ebooks.
OverDrive, whose
ebook borrowing app continues to be the top - rated
large - scale lending app by iOS and Android users, has enjoyed a fairly solid run as not only a content provider to academic and public
libraries, but also in other ways.
Canada Five
large urban public
libraries in Canada with mature digital collections serving a combined population of 8,402,000 reported the following combined digital use statistics: Downloadable
eBook circulation in 2013 was 2,871,514 downloads or 0.34 per capita.
Overdrive is currently the
largest system used by
libraries to facilitate the lending of
eBooks, Audiobooks, Videos and more.
O'Reily is best known for their
large library of technical
eBooks and the fact they are all DRM - Free.
Softlink is one of the
largest digital
ebook distribution systems for
libraries in Australia.
The
large argument at the time was that if
ebooks were given away for free at the
library, it would cannibalize the physical and digital sales.
Free
ebooks will achieve maximum exposure because a
large amount of
library patrons can read the book at once.
KDP Select and the 90 - day exclusivity deal means that your
eBook is not available at
libraries either, or at Barnes and Noble (B&N), or on Kobo (the
largest overseas
eBook distribution and sales platform).
We are dedicated to a «world enlightened by reading» by delivering the industry's
largest catalog of
eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media to a growing network of 38,000
libraries and schools in 70 countries.
This is because I'm a regular user of Calibre, which is a godsend to anybody who needs to manage a
large ebook library like mine.
There are also at least three popular
eBook devices that have compatible apps for your phone, so if you decide you'd like a
larger screen later, you can still access your electronic
library.
OverDrive is the leading digital distribution platform, supplying the industry's
largest catalog of
eBooks, audiobooks, streaming video and periodicals to 38,000
libraries, schools and retailers worldwide.
And the options that
libraries now have for
ebooks (in terms of content, interface, interoperability, etc.) are, by and
large, piss - poor.
Listening to myopic pundits predicting the death of
libraries because
ebooks are becoming a
larger piece of the publishing pie is sillier than accepting a cable news pundits» take on the latest political dustup.
«It's a paradox, celebrating the opening of a public
library in one of the world's
largest cities at a time when the
ebook is gaining ground and the printed book as a format is now being questioned.
Currently, a
large number of publishers have prevented or pulled their titles from
eBook lending catalogs, the platforms that enable public
library patrons to borrow digital editions of books on their own reading - enabled devices.
An agreement announced today between
ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the
largest provider of digital content to public and school
libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for
libraries to stock their work.
Many
libraries servicing
large metropolitan areas (like the Cleveland
library network) already offer
ebook borrowing.
Currently, over 65 % of all
libraries currently deal with Axis 360, and this has allowed them to gain the attention of many
larger publishers for a series of
ebook pilot projects.
According to a press release on the program, «OverDrive offers
libraries and schools the industry's
largest and most complete
eBook catalog, including Kindle
eBooks from more than 800 publishers.
OverDrive offers the
largest collection of EPUB3 and HTML5
eBooks for
library lending; and,
Overdrive currently has the
largest market penetration with
ebook distributing for
libraries in Canada, US, Ireland, UK, and Australia with a 90 % overall reach.
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.
Smashwords makes it fast, free and easy for authors and publishers to distribute
ebooks to the world's
largest ebook retailers and
library ebook platforms.
A few days back I explained the problem just at my
library in Novato, California, where of the six
largest publishers in the U.S. only two will sell or lease
ebooks to the county
library, and of those one charges huge rates, the other has a use limit before the
ebook is made unusable!
New distribution channels were established in 2014, such as OverDrive, the world's
largest ebook supplier serving over 20,000 public
libraries, and Txtr, a European retailer.
I read much more now that I've switched to
ebooks and by watching the sales, discounts, etc., I've been able to grow my «books waiting to be read»
library likely
large enough to last the rest of my life.
When you start amassing a
large library of
eBooks, collection management becomes a big issue.
Overdrive is the
largest company currently operating in the digital
library space and they have just proclaimed that over one billion
ebooks have loaned out.
While I'd guess the publisher's markup for
library use of 25 loans of an
ebook far exceeds the single - copy price of the same book, I'd also be curious about the capital and administrative costs of housing and handling / shipping especially in a
large multi-branch system, that don't exist for electronic loans.
What can ALA and other
large library organizations do to further improve the public's access to
ebooks and other digital content in the United States?
iReader will read secure mobi and secure ereader, which is useful if you have a
large older
ebook library.
Currently,
libraries have no way to buy
large numbers of indie
ebooks.