Sentences with phrase «library ebook lending program»

Penguin Group today announced that it will be changing the terms on its library ebook lending program, and on Tuesday, April 2, will begin allowing libraries to purchase and lend ebook titles the day that hardcover editions are released, according to The Associated Press.

Recorded Books is separately working on its own library ebook lending program, which will allow publishers a great deal of flexibility in how they make their ebooks available to libraries.

Not exact matches

This program will serve a twofold purpose, first in offering libraries and their patrons even more ebook content for lending programs, and second in terms of helping indie authors in the process of getting their books discovered by a larger public audience.

Hopefully, as more major library systems showcase highly successful pilot programs and more publishers adopt the attitude that an ebook really is just a book, lending will continue to grow.

Tim McCall, Penguin's Vice President of Online Sales and Marketing, said, «Penguin is excited to be partnering with Baker & Taylor to expand our library ebook lending pilot program.

Currently, public libraries are struggling with trying to implement digital lending, as five of the Big Six publishers are not yet fully on board with allowing libraries to include their titles in ebook lending programs.

Interesting to note that Amazon announced in April that they're interested in the library ebook market after all http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?ID=1552678&c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle and Overdrive is making changes to boost the Amazon program and also simplify ebook lending for libraries http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/overdrive-update-helps-amazon-program.html

It was a little clunky at first to do library lending because the libraries were a little sketchy on their educational programs, but since then I've seen library websites with much easier info on how to download ebooks.

According to an article by Michael Kelley of The Digital Shift, Amazon launched its lending program in early November with only 5,000 titles — paltry compared to a public library's offering of titles through OverDrive, such as the Columbus Public Library's offering of over 17,000 ebooks — but that number quickly grew to over 66,000 by the following month.

When the Big Six publishers pulled their ebooks from Amazon's lending program, Amazon fired back with a maneuver of its own, namely, to invite the self - published authors to put their books in the lending library on the condition that it be available nowhere else, even as a free blog post.

Amazon's entry into public libraries and their own lending process through the Prime program has just quadrupled the activity in ebook lending.

The 3M ebook lending library program is based on the specific needs that libraries have faced throughout the process of trying lend digital materials.

Besides the drawback that publishers are still imposing checkout limits and raising the price of an ebook by as much as 300 % for libraries, the biggest obstacle may be instituting the lending program itself.

Today OverDrive announced that their Big Library Read is coming back next month, which is a global ebook club of sorts that gives people around the world an opportunity to read the same ebook, or listen to the audiobook, for free through the 30,000 + public libraries and schools that use OverDrive's ebook lending program.

(True, and I have made use of my library's ebook lending programs.)

The Reader Library program is open to public libraries with robust eBook lending programs.

You can also borrow eBooks: Since I mentioned lending eBooks, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that you should check with your local library to see if they have an eBook lending program.

The company's digital arm provides audiobook and eBook lending to the library market through the RBdigital platform, alongside several other platforms specializing in same - day newspapers and magazines, adult learning and language tutorial programs.