Sentences with phrase «library ebook vendor»

Toronto Public Library just topped a list of US and Canadian libraries in terms of digital checkouts, according to library ebook vendor OverDrive.

We don't usually mention particular vendors on our site (outside of our guide to library eBook vendors), but RF would like to thank OverDrive for being responsive and taking another small step in making thier sitre more library user friendly and in accord with RF principles.

Not exact matches

Since then, library ebooks have been provided through siloed, vertically integrated systems in which users can discover and borrow books from a given vendor only in that vendor's website and apps.

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.

Libraries worldwide consult Books In Print to find titles, create lists and decide which vendor, ebook platform, or online retailer to source the title from.

What does an ebooks marketplace look like if, in addition to libraries, content providers are equally committed to a sustainable ecosystem that enables viability for all players — publishers, vendors, authors, libraries and, of course, readers?

Only a small number of ebook vendors (actually, Springer is the only one I know of) allow for any sort of ILL, which means that the more our book collections go digital, the less we will be able to loan to other libraries or borrow from other libraries.

Last Year, ReadersFirst called for the library card to be a possiblity for readers creating vendor accounts to access eBooks.

I currently work for a state library and am part of a group evaluating new vendors for public library ebook services.

So if you are feeling even more aggravated than ever about ebook prices, circulation limits, time limits, vendor platforms, or the lack of integration that frustrates library patrons, just get a couple of these adult coloring books and color your way to relaxation.

Libraries have reasons to be optimistic about the ebook future, though this optimism is tempered by warnings to keep the pressure on publishers, vendors, and ourselves to produce a coherent user experience.

«Many other ILS vendors say that they have a fully integrated eBook system for libraries, but unlike the others, this one is live and working at a real library, thanks to the hard work of 3M, Polaris and Baltimore County Public Library staff.

Distributes to: Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, OverDrive, Scribd, Oyster, Baker & Taylor (operates Blio, a popular e-reading app, and also operates Axis360 which distributes ebooks to public libraries), txtr, mobile phone app vendors (Aldiko on Android; Kobo on all mobile platforms) and other online venues (must upload to KDP yourself)

In November, the publisher expanded its pilot with vendor 3M to make its ebooks available to all libraries using the platform, with subsequent inclusion of Baker & Taylor's Axis 360 platform.

As mentioned above in the section about Smashwords as a retailer, you can also distribute your ebook through Smashwords to Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, Scribd, libraries, and many smaller ebook vendors.

It also supports Adobe EPUB and PDF ebooks purchased from other vendors, free ebooks borrowed from libraries, and can install other ebook reading apps thanks to the Android operating system (even the Kindle for Android app).

Wow, I work in a library (that has Overdrive and several other eBook vendors), yet I hadn't heard about this app.

The 10 participating university libraries deposited $ 100,000 with an ebook vendor for shared access to 16,000 titles.

The panelists were Christopher Platt of the New York Public Library, Ruth Liebmann of Random House, George Coe from the book distributor Baker and Taylor and Steve Potash from Overdrive, a software company that provides ebooks to vendors and libraries, including the Los Angeles Public Library.

There's now an array of established vendors and emerging options for libraries to choose from in order to deliver ebooks to patrons.

It includes well known retailers vendors such as Amazon and lesser known vendors such as NetLibrary and Overdrive that distribute eBooks through library sales programs.

Penguin Random House today announced a new unified, companywide terms of sale (TOS) policy for ebook licenses sold to public, school, and other libraries working with approved ebook vendors in the United States and Canada.

These changes will continue as publishers, libraries, and vendors experiment with the growing market of ebooks.

It will allow all the libraries that have purchased ebooks from more than one vendor, including OverDrive, 3M's Cloud Library, and Baker & Taylor's Access 360 product, to seamlessly serve all those collections through a single application.

Libraries can do a better job at negotiating contracts with ebook vendors: Challenge contract terms; ask questions; provide clarity to vague, incomprehensible language; and bargain.

With these goals in mind, libraries need to find the content they desire, seek the best price possible, determine sustainable business models, analyze license agreements, and evaluate vendors to effectively purchase ebooks.

Even as anxious publishers are hoping to increase friction in the ebook lending experience, librarians have been clamoring for vendors of integrated library systems (ILS) to make e-lending a unified, sleek experience.

The library world was thrilled at the September 21 announcement that library vendor OverDrive had enabled its library customers to loan the ebooks they'd licensed from OverDrive to patrons with Kindle e-readers — provided that the ebooks were in Kindle - maker Amazon's sales inventory.

In a pilot project that began in November, the member libraries deposited a total of $ 100,000 to access a shared collection of about 16,000 ebooks through vendor EBL.

Rather than navigating their patrons away from the library's web presence to Balkanized, often commercial, third - party platforms, each with a different discovery and delivery experience, librarians have been demanding a single, easy - to - use, easy - to - search platform — an integration of the ILS with ebook vendor platforms.

In its November decision to not allow library lending of its new titles (via any vendor), Penguin had initially also targeted OverDrive's relationship with Amazon as a particular concern, which led the company to demand that OverDrive disable the «Get for Kindle» functionality for all Penguin ebooks.