The number of computers and
library books per student is unaffected by the existence of curriculum - based exams.
Indeed, the city's fiscal disadvantage in 1993 was clear to everyone: its schoolchildren received some 12 percent fewer dollars than their counterparts elsewhere in the state; 11.8 percent of the city's teachers were uncertified, compared with 7.3 percent statewide; the city's students had 1 computer for every 19 students, compared with 1 for every 13 students statewide; there was 1 guidance counselor for every 700 city students, compared with 1 per 350 students in the rest of the state; there were 16.5
library books per pupil in the state, but only 10.4 in the city.
Not exact matches
Once family background and the nature of the peer group at school were taken into account, student achievement was unaffected by
per - pupil expenditure, school size, the science lab facilities, the number of
books in the
library, the use of tracking by ability levels to assign students to classrooms, or other factors previously assumed to be indicators of what makes for a good school.
Prior to 1980, school quality was measured mainly by inputs — indicators such as the number of
books in the school
library, the percentage of teachers with master's degrees, and dollars spent
per pupil.
Another example involved preservice teachers who raised money and, in consultation with the host teacher via email (conducted directly with the host teacher without faculty involvement), purchased a set of reference
books for the host classroom, additional
books for the school
library, and supplies for the host teacher (they had found that the teacher was spending over $ 500
per year of her own money on class materials).
KDP Select allows your
book to be part of the Kindle
Library - if someone loans your
book from the
library you will share in the monthly «income» from the
library - on average this is around $ 1.70
per loan - you however must give Amazon 90 days rights to your
book - during this period you can not sell it anywhere else.
«The government signed a law that says that by 2020 all Brazilian schools, public and private, must have a
library with at least one
book per student.
If it's limited to one digital «copy»
per license that can only be held by one user at a time, then
libraries should not be forced to pay any more
per book than your typical user... not THAT much more anyway.
With PDA models including Recommend to Library, Demand - Driven Acquisition and now Cost -
per - Circ,
libraries and schools will be able to more efficiently manage their digital
book collections and target specific areas of their community by giving them more control of the
books they purchase.
For example, Simon & Schuster doesn't license for e-
book lending at all, and HarperCollins just introduced a policy to limit the number of loans
per licensed e-
book to 26, in an apparent move to mimic the lifespan of a physical
book in
library circulation.
So a bookstore who only orders a few
books from say Baker & Taylor
per month, or who doesn't have a good credit rating, or who often pays late, will be sent the bottom (
library) catalog.
Do you believe that
libraries are important for
book and author discovery, and do you believe that
library borrows yield platform - building benefit that has value to you not measured by your theoretical earnings
per borrow (if your
book is borrowed only once ever, then your earnings
per borrow = the price you sold the
book at.
It is catering to people who read a lot and for a flat $ 9.99
per month fee you can read as many
books from the Kindle Unlimited
library as you want.
Last week we discussed the new «cost -
per - circulation» (CPC) model for public
libraries — in which they can make e-
books available to patrons and pay the publisher
per «loan» instead of paying fixed fees to «acquire» titles as if they were print
books (the «pretend it's print» or PIP model).
A
book club with regular attendance can do unknown names that are not known names
per se better than
libraries or bookstores that need to attract a completely new crowd every time.
Books can be freely shared, and users can organize
libraries of their own titles to create reading «playlists» that can also be shared or «followed,» as
per social media norms.
Considering I average 1 — 2
books a week (minimum — that gets as high as five some weeks), not having to carry around
books, no longer forgetting to bring a
book when I'm in a hurry, no visiting bookstores or
libraries every week (only visit when I want to, about once
per month or so), no return deadlines or late fees, and having access to any
book I want even at 2 a.m. in the morning is AWESOME!
To summarize, the BnH wants to be a standard public
library, with a subscription (from 8 euros [US$ 11] to 15 euros [US$ 21]
per year) and with an adapted access to digital
books, not an access to adapted
books.
Basically, Amazon one - upped Barnes & Noble's Read In - Store feature that allows Nook customers to «read NOOK
Books FREE for up to one hour
per day» in any of their 700 + stores, and put the exact same feature in every Kindle customer's living room via 11,000 + public
libraries, without the physical and timing limitations.
For as
per to the latest government initiative, the Aakash tablets would also be made available to students via their school or college
libraries similar to the way they are issued any other
books.
In December,
books were borrowed 295,000 times, the lending
library pool was $ 700,000, and authors received $ 1.70
per borrow.
«They were reading several
books per week, hundreds from
libraries,» he said.
It shows
book progress, chapter progress, average minutes
per reading session, average pages
per minute, total hours reading, and the percentage of total
library read.
library patrons who borrow ebooks go on to purchase 3.2 additional
books per month, and a majority (57 %) would consider buying ebooks found on a
library website
Usage restrictions and price differentials do not exist for physical
books, which
libraries sometimes can buy for up to 40
per cent off their shelf prices.
Consumers can discover their reading style, and gain insight into their unique eReading fingerprint with Reading Life Stats — track the minutes
per reading session of a current read, the number of pages turned, plus see an overview of
books completed in their
library.
They can track the minutes
per reading session of their current read, the number of pages turned, plus see an overview of
books completed in their
library.
As I'll explain in detail later, an endowment would be one way to help guarantee perpetual access to
books even if
libraries paid
per - use fees (yes, the ideal model from a strict
library perspective would be full ownership or, better yet, no limits on use whatsoever — with rights holders paid in advance for removal of all sharing restrictions).
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per reading session of a current read, the number of pages turned, plus see an overview of
books completed in their
library.
The brain child of Dream Industries, Bookmate offers its subscribers open access to its entire
library of no less than 225,000
books for a mere $ 5
per month.
This pay
per use model means there are no longer any holds or unavailable
books, as
libraries only pay when patrons consume content.
Kindle FreeTime Unlimited — For $ 2.99 +
per month, kids get unlimited access to a curated
library of kids
books (previously FreeTime Unlimited was offered on Kindle Fire tablets only).
If you're an Amazon Prime member ($ 79.99
per year), you can check out one
book per month from Amazon's lending
library.
Let's say that you make $ 7
per license, each
library buys three licenses and 1,000
libraries are interested in your
book (which is a very small figure for popular
books).
One reason I am willing to pay Safari IT ~ 500
per year for an unlimited
library shelf of technical e-books is that most of the time I don't need either the absolute latest edition or a
book on a specialized aspect of IT; when I do, I expect to pay for it.
Request only one article from a single issue of a periodical or one chapter from a
book per library user.
Also, each publisher has their own set of rules regarding the cost of digital
books they sell to
libraries, the amount of check outs they can have
per title, and dictate how many titles a
library can have and which authors they are willing to let
libraries have in their collections.
For example, if the
library wants to purchase five titles of John Grisham's «The Litigators,» then it would have to pay $ 184.95 at $ 36.99
per book.
Just one
book can be entered
per competition, but a
library may nominate more than one author.
Libraries don't require a # 10
per month fee, which means that
books being available through them is a public service rather than a service to a private company.
I do know that
libraries pay more
per book than regular customers, and they can only lend it a certain number of times, so they have to buy the same
book over and over to satisfy patrons.
Among
libraries in our population category (500,000 to 999,999), Multnomah County
Library has the highest in -
library materials use
per capita — the number of
books, journals, newspapers and other materials that patrons use in the
library but do not check out.
The amount received
per book borrow depends on the total of
books borrowed in the Kindle Select
library.
Libraries increase people's access to
books IN GENERAL, but because they are limited to single - user -
per -
book / limited - time they drive the purchase of
books, especially popular ones.
While Create Space recently began offering the option to list your
book in wholesale catalogues used by U.S.
libraries and booksellers, there is no easy or practical way to get your Create Space
book listed on Amazon's international sites or in wholesaler
books or wholesaler catalogues used outside the U.S. Lulu offers a global distribution option for a fee, but Lulu's
per copy production costs are so high that I don't recommend using them.
I feel like this can only be good for
libraries because it reminds people that it is possible to borrow
books while imposing a one -
book -
per - month limit on the number they can borrow.
Certainly, as a publisher, I'd sign up to a
per loan (or
per loan /
per day or
per loan /
per access) basis for
libraries, making
books available to as many
libraries as wanted them.
So if you've got a
library of
books at 20,000 - words or less, and you're selling a few copies
per day or more on most of them, I really think you're missing out on a pretty substantial side revenue stream.
I am one of those «avid readers» that you mentioned, and I usually read 2 - 3
books a week, so one
book per month is never going to be able to replace a regular
library for me.
You also have access to Amazon Kindle Owner lending
library where you can lend one
book per month free (conditions apply).