Sentences with phrase «library ebooks distributors»

Several library eBooks distributors over the years have gone out of business, leaving the library with a catalog of 2000 eBooks they've paid for and no way to access those books.

Random House, which first announced the price hike (without details) on February 2 when it reaffirmed its commitment to the library ebook market, provided the following breakdown for what it is now charging library ebook distributors:

Library (the largest library ebook distributors in North America and the UK) are particularly nice additions.

OverDrive is currently the only library ebook distributor that enables patrons to check out books on Kindle's dedicated ereaders (in addition to other platforms) and many librarians were pleased by Penguin's decision to allow simplified Kindle downloading.

Leading library ebook distributor OverDrive was sold to Rakuten on March 19 for $ 410 million cash, more than 16 times OverDrive's annual earnings of $ 25 million.

Not exact matches

In other words, book publishers and distributors are jockeying for position in the school library ebook market and there are no clear winners.

An agreement announced today between ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for libraries to... [Read more...]

Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital... [Read more...]

3M Cloud Library was set up in the BEA Digital Zone to talk about its library lending offerings, but the real news from 3M lately was the recent partnership with Smashwords that puts the ebook distributor's titles in the catalog for libraries to choose from.

OdiloCS is a consortial option, and OdiloPL is a digital marketplace connecting libraries with publishers and ebooks distributors.

People who have amassed libraries of paper books over many years were left behind by ebook distributors.

An agreement announced today between ebook distributor and self - publishing platform Smashwords and OverDrive, the largest provider of digital content to public and school libraries, is going to give self - published authors one of the few remaining pieces in the publishing puzzle, namely the ability for libraries to stock their work.

This is the global distributor of ebooks and audiobooks to libraries that support their system.

Also, Kobo owns OverDrive — the ebook distributor that's critical to the U.S. library market — and has an ebook retail partnership with Flipkart, the most significant book retailer in India; those affiliations can be very helpful if your books do well and catch the attention of Kobo's marketers and promotions managers.

Margaret Harrison [00:02:07] Oh thanks, well so, yeah, I've worked my whole career in publishing and I started out on the ebook side working for OverDrive, a major distributor of ebooks at public libraries, and focusing on ebooks, so much of it is about the metadata, not just getting books into channels but also making sure those books, as Justine said, can be discoverable, can be found, and so I started spending a lot more of my time on metadata, and I'm a curious person so I got to know a lot and here I am

HBG notified all our public library distributors (including OverDrive) that we would be selling ebooks to them under new terms.

Many of the top eBook distributors to libraries were all showcasing their next generation app platforms that put a priority on synergy and ease of use with all of their content.

It's time for transparency on library ebook pricing from both publishers and distributors.

OverDrive, by far the largest distributor of ebooks to public libraries, declined to comment, but a number of librarians told LJ that the company holds closely information about its own markups.

More specifically, we were pleased to learn that starting this spring, Hachette is conducting a pilot with two ebook distributors for libraries, which will bring a selection of HBG's recent bestselling ebooks to 7 million library patrons.

The second, addressed here, is that the products currently offered by e-content distributors (the middlemen from whom libraries buy ebooks) create a fragmented, disjointed, and cumbersome user experience.

Since we authors are the publishers and lulu.com the on line printer and distributor we can also upload our ebooks to the Kindle and Nook libraries, thereby hugely expanding our potential markets.

Now that Penguin is running ebook trials with two new library distributors — Baker & Taylor and 3M — the publisher has decided it is safe to make new ebooks available for lending again, the AP reported Wednesday.

As we all know, Amazon is the biggest online book distributor and their library of ebooks is enormous and growing every day!

OverDrive, the leading distributor of ebooks to libraries and schools, announced today that ebooks borrowed through OverDrive's network of libraries can now be used on Kindle Fire tablets using Kindle FreeTime.

That was the Thanksgiving Surprise when our friends at Penguin told off OverDrive (the big distributor of ebooks to libraries) and ordered it to suspend providing Penguin ebooks to libraries.

OverDrive, the leading eBook, audiobook, music and video distributor for schools and libraries, announced today that six standalone partner libraries have surpassed 1 million digital checkouts from their OverDrive collection in 2013.

A majority of the 57 state and regional chapters of the American Library Association have signed a joint statement in opposition to the practices of publishers and distributors that have established unfair pricing in the sale of ebooks to libraries.

One upload to it, and it takes care of sending your files to almost every ebook distributor but Amazon, including those who supply libraries.

Excellent ahas on selling and getting books and ebooks into libraries with Amy Collins — from pricing to how to pitch; which distributors #authors should be with and why authors should put energy into libraries for book marketing.

My ebook, The Savvy Book Marketer's Guide to Selling Your Book to Libraries offers tips on marketing to libraries and handling orders, as well as contact information for major libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations inLibraries offers tips on marketing to libraries and handling orders, as well as contact information for major libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations inlibraries and handling orders, as well as contact information for major libraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations inlibraries, wholesalers, distributors, review journals and library associations in the U.S.

D2D distributes to all the major ebook stores and library distributors, except Google Play and Bibliotheca.

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.

OverDrive dominates ebook distribution for public libraries, but B&T, based in Charlotte, NC, saw an opportunity in this market because the company felt a cogent argument could be made for libraries to use a highly regarded print book distributor, with deep ties to the library market, for its digital content as well.

Trajectory is also helping China's largest publishers export their books and audiobooks through a proprietary global ebook distribution network that includes hundreds of retailers as well as library and school distributors.

Once developed, the open - source platform will enable library patrons to borrow ebooks seamlessly from multiple distributors using a single app or interface.

The assumption gains new interest with the news that the Cleveland - based OverDrive, leading distributor of ebooks to libraries, has been bought by Tokyo's Rakuten, which also owns the Canadian ebook retailer Kobo and its self - publishing platform, Kobo... Read More

With options for publishers and authors, choosing Bookmasters as your global print book distributor (and / or eBook distributor) means your titles will be available to wholesalers, retailers, independent bookstores, libraries, and ultimately, the readers you're trying to reach.

But by teaming up with OverDrive, a leading distributor of ebooks and other digital content and tapping into their extensive network of school and public libraries, the Amazon Kindle and Kindle apps (on PC and mobile devices) will help to improve the accessibility of literature in the transforming digital age of our treasured libraries.

The standard is managed by the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum), which collaborates with publishers, distributors, educators and libraries to evolve the standard to make ebooks more accessible to more readers.

OverDrive is a digital distributor of eBooks, audiobooks, and video titles made available through US public and school libraries.

Smashwords is the largest distributor of indie ebooks, delivering to ebook retailers, app stores, and libraries.

EDRLab is working actively with European publishers, ebook distributors, public libraries and application developers for the success of an open publishing ecosystem based on EPUB 3.

Sony, working with OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), the leading global digital distributor of eBooks and to libraries, will now offer visitors to the eBook Store by Sony easy access to their local library's collection of eBooks.

Most authors know Smashwords as the world's largest distributor of indie ebooks to retailers and libraries, and this remains our primary business focus.

Overdrive, a major distributor of ebooks in the public library world, found itself caught between the publishing powerhouse and a furious library community when it was announced that library loans of ebooks would be capped at 26.