Sentences with phrase «lending libraries launching»

With the new lending libraries launching this month, the KDP Select fund has been increased by $ 100,000 to $ 700,000 in October, with a larger increase anticipated in November.

Yet, the lending library launched last year without any of the big six publishers in the U.S.. Most of the books available to lend are self - published books.

Not exact matches

PUPILS are set to ace their game after a tennis equipment lending library was launched in a pioneering scheme which has helped transform two Birmingham schools.

Just as libraries in the US have had to learn to navigate the sometimes frustrating world of digital content circulation, libraries in Japan have launched digital lending initiatives of their own.

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.

In addition to exclusive deals Amazon has announced with specific authors, in December it launched KDP Select, a way for authors to participate in an unusually structured Kindle lending library and payment pool, as long as their e-books remained exclusive to Amazon.»

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.

He said, «In early 2013 we will launch library lending of ebooks.

In the last couple of weeks, we've seen New Zealand public libraries announcing plans for the imminent launch of ebook lending services.

A local initiative developed by library and educational book supplier Wheelers launches a trial next month of its homegrown ebook lending service with Tauranga and Hamilton library districts.

Amazon has just launched its lending library service in the UK, which lets Amazon Prime users borrow one book a month.

Amazon launched its own public library lending tie - in, which differs on a branch - to - branch basis.

hoopla digital, the recently launched digital division of library content supplier Midwest Tape, has launched a lending model for libraries that stands to change that.

With the pending launch of these new lending libraries, the KDP Select fund has been increased by $ 100,000 to $ 700,000 in October, with a larger increase anticipated in November.

Amazon is launching a digital - book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle devices who are also subscribers to its $ 79 - a-year Amazon Prime program.

As the e-reader and tablet wars heat up, Amazon.com Inc. is launching a digital - book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices who are also subscribers to its Amazon Prime program.

Earlier this past week, OverDrive announced that they have just launched their library lending services in Japan.

Just six months after launching their innovative eBook lending library, Odilo now offers digital content from all of the leading publishers, including frontlist and backlist titles, along with pre-orders.

In 2003, libraries began offering free downloadable popular fiction and non-fiction e-books to the public, launching an E-book lending model that worked much more successfully for public libraries.

The book lending library from Amazon that has become popular in the U.S. will now be available to readers in the U.K. Launching, November 1, Amazon has several U.K. -LSB-...].

When they launched the Kindle Fire, Amazon also announced a digital lending library, likening it to Netflix for books.

Amazon is using the Paperwhite to launch the Kindle Lending Library in the UK (one free title every month) but there's still no public library lending (one of the strongest features of Kindle's competitors) and you can't lend books to other Kindle users for 14 days, as in the US.

Notably, during pilot tests and subsequent national launches of Penguin's ebook catalog for library lending, 3M and Baker & Taylor did not face similar side - loading demands for Barnes & Noble NOOK devices.

Amazon (s amzn) is trying hard to reinvent the library for the digital age, by offering e-book lending through the Kindle via a «Netflix for books» (s nflx) monthly subscription, as well as by offering Kindle e-books through a public - library lending program it launched earlier this year.

The company has partnered with Overdrive, now offers library lending and plans to launch an e-reader.

Amazon launched today its ebook lending library.

It launched an ebook lending platform for libraries — in 2002.

Amazon launched its own public library lending tie - in, which differs on a branch - to - branch basis.