Sentences with phrase «lend ebooks from public libraries»

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eBook lending to public libraries just went international with the first country to benefit from the 3M Cloud Library System.

3M's Library System loves to show up at a packed conference and show off something new and innovative for the world of library ebook lending, such as at last year's ALA Conference when all the buzz was about the dedicated e-reader designed specifically to be checked out from local public libraries.

Three public library systems in Minnesota, overseeing a total of twenty - five individual libraries, became the most recent of the eighty library systems across the country to benefit from 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their pateBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their patebook lending for their patrons.

One of the polarizing issues in the U.S. ebook market right now is the conflict over public library access to ebook titles for lending, but we may be able to take a lesson from Libranda's new partnership with OverDrive to afford access to new and bestselling ebook titles to library patrons in Spain.

But with survey data from as recently as 2012 indicating that the majority of library patrons in the US didn't even know their public libraries could lend ebooks, despite the current numbers that 90 % of American libraries offer digital lending, there's an obvious disconnect between the services offered and patron adoption.

Overdrive is the leading company that facilitates the digital eBook lending process from your public libraries.

Essentially, the leadership finally expressed that it was fed up with the current upheaval in public library ebook lending, with different members of the Big Six publishing houses setting their own rules — from no lending of our new titles, to a book can only be borrowed a specific number of times, to no lending of any of our titles at all — it was chaos for the libraries and disappointment for their patrons.

Publisher's Weekly caught up with American Library Association president Molly Raphael at the recent Public Library Association conference in Philadelphia to find out the latest state of affairs over ebook lending from public librPublic Library Association conference in Philadelphia to find out the latest state of affairs over ebook lending from public librpublic libraries.

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.

«And schools are benefiting from the huge success in eBook lending that public libraries have enjoyed over the past decade.»

When Coates spoke to GoodeReader in February about this lending model, those titles were reported to be coming from all of the Big Six publishers, something that public libraries have not been able to achieve for ebook lending.

It's been now ten years that public libraries have been lending ebooks from HarperCollins, John Wiley & Sons, Harlequin, and Sourcebooks.

OverDrive, which provides a full catalog of ebooks for public and school libraries to lend their patrons to over 15,000 libraries, was stunned this week when Penguin Group demanded that all of their titles be pulled from OverDrive's catalog, claiming that it had «security concerns.»

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.

On the other hand, having become quite used to borrowing ebooks from my public library I was upset to find the ubiquitous library lending app Overdrive not supported here.

Amazon and OverDrive have quietly started rolling out Kindle ebook lending from public libraries, albeit in Beta.

Like the Kindle Fire, the Nook Tablet supports library lending so you can borrow eBooks from your local public library for free.

If you want to borrow eBooks from a public lending library, you can easily do so using the integrated web browser on your tolino eReader.

EPUB, PDF, TXT; compatible with Adobe DRM and eBooks from public lending libraries (e. g. Onleihe Germany) and tolino select

Borrowing eBooks has Never Been Easier: Readers can easily connect to their local public libraries right from their Kobo Aura ONE with built - in, one - touch OverDrive library lending access *.