Sentences with phrase «library ebook adoption»

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Refusal to simplify pricing models, and refusal to inter-operate among e-readers and lending systems, means that libraries will simply opt out of ebook adoption entirely — something they can't afford to do if they're going to stay relevant in the future.

The British government had formed a task force earlier this year to investigate the potential impact of ebook lending in order to consider mandating lending; the task force was made up of voices from various sectors in the book industry, but the news led to concerns that libraries would possibly suffer in an era of all - digital lending adoption.

But with survey data from as recently as 2012 indicating that the majority of library patrons in the US didn't even know their public libraries could lend ebooks, despite the current numbers that 90 % of American libraries offer digital lending, there's an obvious disconnect between the services offered and patron adoption.

To study ebook adoption by kids and school libraries, School Library Journal and Follett School Solutions recently released the Sixth Annual Survey of Ebook Usage in the U.S. School (K ebook adoption by kids and school libraries, School Library Journal and Follett School Solutions recently released the Sixth Annual Survey of Ebook Usage in the U.S. School (K Ebook Usage in the U.S. School (K - 12)

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

eBook adoption in school libraries stands to result in a significant savings for both public and private centers» budgets, given the typically lower cost of titles and the elimination of damaged copies.

The adoption and use of ebooks in U.S. school libraries has grown steadily over the past four years, slowed mainly by limited access to ereading devices and cost, says a new ebooks report by School Library Journal, sponsored by Follett.

They have asked this question, along with others about ebook adoption, library usage, and device ownership, in surveys over almost the whole ebook adoption cycle.

Until borrowing an ebook from a library is as easy as buying it from Amazon, we're not going to see anything like mass adoption so my concern is more future - looking.

No one could have predicted the explosion in ebook adoption by the consumer public, let alone by libraries.

The slow growth of ebook adoption in school libraries is attributed to limited access to ereading devices and cost of ebooks, according to the report, released in October 2014 and sponsored by Follett.

A lack of access to ereading devices was described by 64 percent of respondents as the leading barrier to ebook adoption by their library.

Ian Singer of Media Source quoted adoption rate statistics that ebooks are in over 90 % of academic libraries and over 80 % of public libraries.

Eli Neiburger, deputy director of AADL, warns against dedicating disproportionate resources to ebooks when the adoption curve for them has flattened so quickly: The restrictive licenses offered elsewhere further limit their usefulness to all patrons in a given library system.

Also, there's the possibility of the Douglas County model seeing wider adoption in 2012: «Assured About Security, More Publishers Agree to Sell Ebook Files to Douglas County Libraries» http://bit.ly/zdbiyI

While self - published titles may be an option for public libraries when it comes to acquiring ebooks, not so for schools, according to SLJ columnist Christopher Harris, who lays out the ongoing challenges for ebook adoption in K - 12.