Sentences with phrase «lend ebooks through»

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A spokesperson for the company didn't have anything concrete to offer, but did remind me that B&N offers eBook lending through its «LendMe» technology (not the same as gifting) and, like Amazon, offers physical and electronic gift cards for eBooks.

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.

It is not only a tagline to add separation between Overdrive and other companies facilitating digital ebook lending through libraries, but a movement.

Digital content provider OverDrive made a monumental announcement today in saying that Macmillan has made its entire ebook catalog available for the first time for lending through OverDrive's school library partners.

From the very beginning of digital lending through libraries and personal consumer shares, publishers have been wary of the implications of ebook lending.

I work in a library that lends ebooks and audio books through Overdrive.

According to an article by Michael Kelley of The Digital Shift, Amazon launched its lending program in early November with only 5,000 titles — paltry compared to a public library's offering of titles through OverDrive, such as the Columbus Public Library's offering of over 17,000 ebooks — but that number quickly grew to over 66,000 by the following month.

For its part, the government body overseeing the issue has agreed that authors need to be fairly compensated through ebook lending, but also that every possible step must be taken to ensure that ebook lending by both remote and on - site patrons remains a free service to society.

Unlike typical library lending through companies like OverDrive which sells a copy of the ebook to the partner library, thus compensating the author and publisher like a typical book sale, Epic!

With so many libraries offering ebook lending and with giants like Amazon offering lending through the Prime membership, it may take readers a while to adapt to subscriptions for books.

Their participation helps towards the stripping of copyrighted status, but also allows the library to loan the ebook to their patrons through Unglue.it's lending platform.

Smashwords, who sells author content as well as distributes that content to major retailers of authors» choice, gives authors the option to sell their ebooks through Smashwords at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Apple, Flipkart, and a few other retailers, as well as to distribute their work for lending to OverDrive, Oyster, and Scribd.

In light of the need to reduce staff and cut operating hours, ebook lending becomes more vital than ever, especially under systems that allow patrons to browse for ebooks via the library websites and borrow them directly through the online portal for web - based or device agnostic reading.

While many e-reader recipients would logically be expected to open user accounts with the platform that serves their e-readers and then follow through with a few ebook purchases in the post-gift giving excitement, it actually speaks volumes about where consumers choose to spend their dollars and lend their support that patrons were checking out ebooks on Christmas.

Amazon's entry into public libraries and their own lending process through the Prime program has just quadrupled the activity in ebook lending.

The title is available through all major ebook distribution channels and for library lending through OverDrive's partner libraries.

Random House has countered this claim saying, «Our publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.»

Borrowers» email addresses are provided to lenders for no other purpose than to facilitate an ebook loan through Amazon's Kindle book lending feature.

Applebaum said that the publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.

Some of the popularity of ebook lending libraries that OverDrive has noted for the calendar year 2011 through September 30th include almost triple the number of ebook check - outs over all of 2010, more than two million new users signed up for this year, and a rise in smartphone reading to account for 21 % of all ebook checkouts.

For indie authors and publishers who can agree to Amazon's list of demands, notably making their works available exclusively through Amazon for a set period of time and allowing their works to be loaned through the Kindle lending library, there is a fund of $ 6 million, divided into monthly amounts, allocated to pay authors as ebooks are borrowed.

This rule is no doubt employed to help recoup sales revenues Amazon loses through lending, especially since there does not appear to be a limit as to the number of times an eBook can be loaned.

It offers both 3G wireless and Wi - Fi access and is the first to offer digital lending for a wide selection of eBooks through its LendMe (TM) technology.

Today OverDrive announced that their Big Library Read is coming back next month, which is a global ebook club of sorts that gives people around the world an opportunity to read the same ebook, or listen to the audiobook, for free through the 30,000 + public libraries and schools that use OverDrive's ebook lending program.

Now libraries offer their patrons an average of about 10,000 ebooks for lending, either as part of the library's own collection or available through a consortium.

Simon & Schuster's full catalog of eBook titles are available for pilot libraries to purchase for lending to their readers, or for readers to purchase through their library's website with the new Library BIN (Buy It Now) option.

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.

A person can lend the ebook to a friend and still have it on their computer / eReader to read (unless done through Amazon's lending program).

The company's digital arm provides audiobook and eBook lending to the library market through the RBdigital platform, alongside several other platforms specializing in same - day newspapers and magazines, adult learning and language tutorial programs.

It offers both free 3G wireless and Wi - Fi access and is the first eBook Reader to offer digital lending for a wide selection of eBooks through Barnes & Noble's breakthrough LendMe (TM) technology.

Starting February 10, Penguin, which had recently instituted limitations on library lending for ebooks and audiobooks, will now no longer offer any ebooks or audiobooks through OverDrive.