Sentences with phrase «libraries loan out»

Most libraries loan out hardcover books until they can not be mended, that is more than twenty - six times.

And for people who aren't aware of this, libraries loan out kindle books, and it's SUPER EASY to get them.

Libraries loan out ebooks which you can borrow and read directly on your Kobo Aura One or Kindle.

24 % of school libraries loan out ebook readers; about 50 % of schools have a one - to - one policy, which means that each student has his or her own tablet / device for at least part of a school day.

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Good point, though I give props to the cashier, who agreed with that sentiment but also pointed out the awesomeness of our public libraries and that we're lucky to have inter-library loan in Massachusetts.

Every week we would walk to our library and take out the maximum loan amount only to be devoured over and over again in the following 7 days.

98 % of people don't know what graduate school is, and even think I'm still taking out loans and studying in the library all the time.

She pulls out a copy of Kafka's The Metamorphosis on loan from the library.

Some guys make libraries pay a normal amount, but anytime an e-book is loaned out more than 26 times, the library has to buy the e-book again.

The company remains the largest force in the library world when it comes to handling the loaning out of digital books and audiobooks.

Sadly If a library offers this e-book, they can only loan it out 26 times before they have to buy it again.

Over 10 different libraries in the US and Canada had over one million digital loans in 2014, with two libraries lending out two million e-Books.

Baker and Taylor has just expanded into New Zealand, giving public libraries the ability to loan out eBooks and audiobooks.

Libraries can do whatever they want with the title, including loaning it out without restriction or selling it in a book drive.

This is a program that has been transpiring for a number of years and basically gives libraries the ability to have access to a free e-book title to loan out an unlimited number of times during a small... [Read more...]

A few years ago there was a dream where thousands of libraries all over the US and Canada would be able to loan out e-readers to patrons, in addition to eBooks.

If Overdrive developed its own cheap reader and allowed libraries to loan the devices out to patrons who did not have an e-reader or tablet, the company could win in more ways than one.

In order to keep the library updated district workers are dispatched during the summer months to weed out the books not loaned out at all during a school year, are in reprehensible shape or simply not relevant.

The company facilitates the entire digital distribution system, so libraries can easily purchase and loan out ebooks to their patrons.

Libraries that do business with Overdrive loaned out 137 million digital assets in 2014,... [Read more...]

Libraries can only loan a book out for a year, before they are forced to buy the digital book once more.

Six hundred e-readers and over ten thousand eBooks will be available to loan out when the new library opens this week.

The library buys the title once and can loan out a single copy to one user at a time.

When eBooks first became available at Northern Ireland Libraries in 2011, there was only 363 eBooks to loan out.

OverDrive is best known for their digital infrastructure that allows libraries to loan out eBooks to their patrons.

There was 59 libraries that loaned out over 1 million titles, 14 that had 2 million checkouts, seven over 3 million, and two over 4 million.

One of her big accomplishments was getting several of the top six publishers to loan out their ebooks to libraries all over the USA.

The 3M Cloud Library system is one of the newest entries to the market that focuses on getting libraries hooked up with the ability to loan out ebooks.

The 3M Cloud Library has just inked a deal with Barnes and Noble to provide libraries with e-readers to loan out to their patrons.

Starting today, eBooks and audiobooks will both be available for libraries to purchase and loan out to people who have e-readers, tablets or smartphones.

I have talked extensively to the administration of the American Library Association about their efforts to get more favorable e-book pricing and they told me that «The reason why publishers are so hostile to libraries is because the e-Books are loaned out to people who might otherwise be customers, they the publishers need to compensate for those perceived losses.»

Overdrive is one of the largest technology companies that lays down the infrastructure for libraries to loan out digital books.

A new report has decreed that 90 % of all libraries now loan out eBooks, up from 76 % in 2012.

I do loan out my kindle occasionally, but would not do that for strangers, even in my own library community.

Before this standardized electronic format, many libraries only offered PDF books and did not have a digital infrastructure setup to loan them out online.

The market leader in Canada was the Toronto Public library that loaned out 1.5 million, which was a 68 % increase from last year.

This has set a new record as six different libraries have each loaned out over a million books.

Every single library that offers e-books loans them out in EPUB or the PDF format.

The Ultimate e-reader is running Android, which gives libraries the ability to loan this unit out to their patrons or have it available at their branches.

On an average week in Canada over 63,196 e-books are loaned out from the libraries.

You can loan it out, take it to a used bookstore, give it your grandchildren, throw it in the trash, donate it to the school library, use it for kindling.

One thing forgot to mention is with Kindle if you want to get into their «Kindle select» (their lending library where you get royalties when people loan your book out) you do sign an exclusive deal with them but it's only for 90 days with a clear cutoff date when you can re-sign if you want.

Any materials removed from the library must be checked out on a valid library card or through other standard library procedures, such as InterLibrary Loan.

Overdrive has been one of the most longstanding primer partners, but the company tends to ruffle publishers» feathers by loaning out the library ebooks to Kindle e-Readers.

Libraries that do business with Overdrive loaned out 137 million digital assets in 2014, which is a 33 % increase from 2013.

The ALA mainly tried to get the point across that library books are an essential part of the digital book ecosystem and to stress the importance of not capping the amount of times a book can be loaned out.

When it comes to libraries purchasing digital content to loan out to patrons, Overdrive certainly isn't the only game in town.

«Our usage is going up as well,» said Platt as he pointed out that New York libraries loaned more than 28 million items in 2010.

A few times a year Overdrive orchestrates a program where libraries can loan out an e-book with an unlimited number of loans.

Overdrive announced a new Cost Per Circ system last year and it allows libraries to have a huge influx of digital content that can loaned out to as many users as they want simultaneously and libraries only pay when the audiobook or ebook is actually borrowed.