Sentences with phrase «lend ebooks with»

Its planned copyright changes to let libraries lend ebooks with or without publisher permission shows it's not averse to forcing rightsholders» hands.

Not exact matches

Libraries use different systems for ebook lending, many of which don't communicate effectively with one another — so if a publisher chooses one platform over another, many libraries will have to do without their titles in electronic form.

With traditional library lending, the library buys a certain number of eBook copies of a particular title.

Yesterday OverDrive announced that they have resolved a technical issue with their library ebook lending service that had caused a number of Kindle - formatted ebooks not to appear available for lending.

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

When library patrons think of ebook lending, they might be familiar with the powers behind the books, with names like OverDrive or 3M distributing content to their local libraries.

GoodEReader reported last month that the American Library Association had asked for and gotten meetings with three of the Big Six publishers to discuss moving forward with ebook lending.

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OverDrive, which powers ebook lending for over 19,000 customer libraries, announced today that it is broadening its educational library focus with the addition of a General Manager of Education and Chief Sales Officer position over K - 12 libraries.

Just as with books, though, there are books that you collect and books that you consume; print lends itself to titles that readers want to own for years to come, while ebooks were ideal for books that readers enjoyed and then promptly moved away from.

While the struggle for a satisfactory condition continues in the world of ebook lending for public libraries, some companies are still managing to make progress with digital catalogs.

At yesterday's IDPF event, BiblioBoard's Mitchell Davis sat down with Good eReader to talk about the new feature that was just launched with Library Journal that will offer libraries a way to feel confident about including self - published ebooks in their lending catalogs.

Cross words were exchanged when each entity sent the other its scathing stance on the state of ebook lending, but that didn't prevent the American Library Association and the Association of American Publishers from going forward with a planned meeting to discuss the issue.

Penguin has really warmed up to the idea of digital ebook lending, forging a new agreement with the 3M Cloud Library earlier in the month.

There hasn't been enough discussion about the role that the ongoing battle between Amazon and the Big Six plays in the problems arising with ebook lending.

The American Library Association held its Midwinter conference this week, but the real news to come from that gathering is that the ALA's key leadership has asked for and gotten a meeting with several major publishers to figure out where eBook lending is going from here.

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.

Tim McCall, Penguin's Vice President of Online Sales and Marketing, said, «Penguin is excited to be partnering with Baker & Taylor to expand our library ebook lending pilot program.

Currently, public libraries are struggling with trying to implement digital lending, as five of the Big Six publishers are not yet fully on board with allowing libraries to include their titles in ebook lending programs.

3M Cloud Library was set up in the BEA Digital Zone to talk about its library lending offerings, but the real news from 3M lately was the recent partnership with Smashwords that puts the ebook distributor's titles in the catalog for libraries to choose from.

Interestingly, the image only alludes to 600,000 titles available in the Amazon catalog, not the full ebook catalog, which could mean that Amazon would have the same problem with acquiring content for lending that has plagued the ebook subscription model since it first became news back in 2010.

eBook lending has been a struggle for the industry, with different publishers experimenting with different lending parameters and limitations in an effort to protect the interests of their companies and their authors.

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 libraries.

Whatever the real number clearly Amazon remains the leading ebook vendor and its continuing refusal to support library lending locks libraries out of the most popular format from the vendor with the best title selection and the lowest prices.

eSentral commenced a pioneering project with Sabah State Library to serve ebooks for remote lending focusing on local ebooks.

It was a little clunky at first to do library lending because the libraries were a little sketchy on their educational programs, but since then I've seen library websites with much easier info on how to download ebooks.

Since publishers are so concerned with the «perpetuity of lending and simultaneity of availability» of their ebooks, I have to wonder if libraries shouldn't just help them out and hit the STOP button themselves?

ALA will meet face - to - face with CEOs and executives from Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin Group, three publishers who are currently preventing their titles from being part of eBook lending catalogs, although in Penguin's case the ban applies only to new releases published after November 2011.

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.

Test Drive Approved device requirements include compatibility with the library's eBook catalog, direct Wi - Fi checkout and eBook download via an on - board browser or app, and copyright protection (DRM) and lending practices that conform to rules as required by publisher permissions.

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

Overdrive does have a number of major companies still supporting ebook lending such as; Random House, HarperCollins, John Wiley, Harlequin Romance, Kensington, Perseus, Sourcebooks, Scholastic, Chronicle, among others, and hundreds of their best - selling authors strongly support and are partnering with OverDrive to build stronger connections to library eBook reaebook lending such as; Random House, HarperCollins, John Wiley, Harlequin Romance, Kensington, Perseus, Sourcebooks, Scholastic, Chronicle, among others, and hundreds of their best - selling authors strongly support and are partnering with OverDrive to build stronger connections to library eBook reaeBook readers.

Hatchet and Penguin were the first major publishers to initiate an ebook lending pilot project with major libraries in New York.

When the Big Six publishers pulled their ebooks from Amazon's lending program, Amazon fired back with a maneuver of its own, namely, to invite the self - published authors to put their books in the lending library on the condition that it be available nowhere else, even as a free blog post.

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 boWith 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 bowith giants like Amazon offering lending through the Prime membership, it may take readers a while to adapt to subscriptions for books.

This coincides with the existing agreements that Smashwords already has to put tiers of ebooks into public library ebook lending circulation.

The one problem with most eBook lending websites is that there is only a few copies of the most popular books, at any given time.

But I like the recommendations and am pleased with the direction the UK government is taking for developing a new lending policy for ebooks.

«This spike in library lending of eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video is the result of the tremendous efforts of thousands of librarians, as well as significant ease - of - use improvements including seamless integration with library catalogs,» said Shannon Lichty, OverDrive's Director of Partner Services.

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.

With the abundance of self - publishing opportunities available to authors now, and even opportunities like library distribution thanks to this morning's announcement that Smashwords and OverDrive are pairing up on ebook lending, the real stand out will be in the ways that companies can offer book promotion to their clients.

In the same survey, 38 % of students from other countries did not know that their local libraries loaned ebooks, compared with only six percent in the UK, lending a lot of weight to Sayar's assessment that UK students just may be more familiar with where and how to access digital titles.

She said that the current state of affairs with digital ebook lending was «terribly unfair» and said that «authors should be properly remunerated» for their work.

One of the findings of the report, unfortunately, was that many library patrons are not even aware that their public libraries already lend ebooks, let alone that their libraries could be lending ebooks if they were to partner with an ebook provider:

Publishers have imposed boycotts on ebook lending, issued impossible pricing strategies for digital content, and even removed titles from the lending catalogs, all of which have all left libraries at odds with the publishers as they struggle to provide quality reading content for their patrons.

eBook lending, along with movie, music, and audiobook streaming, is helping these entities keep their doors open by offering the content their patrons need in the platforms they want to consumer it.

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.