Sentences with phrase «lending ebooks back»
Barnes and Noble take this a step further with a feature called Nook Friends, which allows users to setup social circles for lending ebooks back and forth, and for sharing reading recommendations and reviews on Facebook and Twitter all from the Nook Touch directly.
http://www.the-ebook-reader.com/ Not exact matches
While the first library to offer ebook lending in Japan did so as far back as 2007, it seems that the mistakes US libraries and Japanese libraries made at the onset went hand in hand.
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.
At the conclusion of the 14 - days, the lent eBook is back on the purchaser's bookshelf and fully accessible again.
The company is citing «security concerns ``, much in the same way that Harper Collins cited the «need to protect their authors» when they imposed the 26 - circulation cap on library ebook lending back in February 2011.
The plan is to reverse some of the long - held misconceptions that ebook lending could lead to increased piracy and decreased sales, a belief that has already been demonstrated to be false by Kobo at Digital Book World back in 2012 when Michael Tamblyn presented sales data for Suzanne Collins» Hunger Games trilogy.
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.
Penguin Group, which announced last year that any books published after November 14 would not be available for ebook lending from libraries — and initially had said those ebooks would not be available for Kindle, but has since backed down from that statement — has now decided to pull its audiobook downloads from library catalogs for books published on or after that same date.
Many eBooks have 14 day lending windows in which you can loan out your book and get it back after the expiration period.
The LendMe app has been replaced with a Nook Friends app, which allows you to share between friends what you are reading, even lend certain ebooks back and forth.
It is good to know that Lendle is back as many eBook lending business.
Weaknesses — No SD Card slot, no wireless, no good ebook store to back it up, no reading apps for other platforms, no browser, terrible use of touch capability, no speakers, no text to speech feature, no lending.
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.
Not sure what charm and magic B&N used to get this feature included but now Publishers have undermined one of the big advantages of ebooks — They've added back book lending.
NOOK can read DRMed ebooks from a number of other sources including lending libraries, and NOOK doesn't regularly report back to the mother - ship on its owner's reading habits.
Libraries and publishers will eventually figure out the user interface and back office processes, and once they do library ebook lending will accelerate in popularity.