Sentences with phrase «library ebooks»

It would be a mistake to accept the current restrictions on library ebook lending as the way things have to be.

The tiered pricing model for library ebooks seems to make sense.

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

Explore features, how to customize settings, and how to download library eBooks.

There are instances in fact where it is legal, but doing so with library ebooks is a different story.

However, he said that publisher arguments about needing more «friction» in library ebook transactions were misguided.

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

Even more upsetting due to its reach and impact was the early state of library ebook lending.

If yes, all you need to do is use your library card to sign up, and follow the guide to borrow library ebooks.

Let us know you want better library ebook services for you users!

It makes it easy to download free library ebooks.

It's a horrible experience and many people turn away from using library eBooks at all because of it.

And a lot of public library ebook collections are just getting started.

Here's a how to guide for getting library ebooks.

To make real progress on this issue, you need hard data that shows ebook sales are helped, not harmed, by library ebook lending to mobile ebook reading devices.

Despite recent gains in access to content, today's library eBook experience is still inadequate to support robust reading.

Our experience suggests that library eBook readers tend to be proud of what they read and are more likely to share their lists on social media than to hide anything.

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.

Why not give your local library eBook collection a try!

Let's hope this initiative will be a step in publishers, content providers, and libraries working together more closely to improve existing library eBook models.

This articles raises, once again, concerns about what library eBook providers might have access to.

Certainly, many library ebook collections are growing....

The process was about the same as using a PC to checkout library ebooks.

Leaders from top library ebook and streaming media companies weighed in on this issue during an hour - long discussion.

A lot of academic library ebook collections are mostly for research.

First, you'll want to follow the tutorial listed above for regular library eBooks, since that will teach you some basics you need to know.

Perhaps we can even put the print model aside and develop good digital models for sharing library ebooks.

Libraries and publishers will eventually figure out the user interface and back office processes, and once they do library ebook lending will accelerate in popularity.

Since approximately 75 % of public library ebook collections are currently fiction, public libraries may find greater use if they invest more resources into building larger digital collections, especially in nonfiction.

With the nook, I can use library ebooks.

You can even use it to read library ebooks.

An extensive online poll was conducted with over 75,000 library ebook readers and it found that these patrons purchase an average of 3.2 books (both print and ebooks) each month.

With the introduction of library ebooks in 1999, however, the once - straightforward process of buying books took on many complexities.

I have a separate wish list on my library's website which I can request from, and actually another one for library ebooks.

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

ReadersFirst has no stake in the success or failure of any commercial device, but, ever the cheerful optimists — Pollyanna with a love of APIs — we wish to point out that Nooks of all sorts should still work with most library eBook platforms.

Most ereaders that have web browsers can not download library ebooks directly, so it's actually a pretty unique feature.

A spokesperson for library eBook vendor OverDrive exclaimed, «We're having to completely revamp our app, again, but soon it will give access to every one of the Amazon Library Co-Opteration titles.

Our industry - leading library distribution reaches OverDrive (world's largest library ebook platform serving 20,000 + libraries), Baker & Taylor Axis 360, Tolino, Gardners (Askews & Holts and Browns Books for Students), Bibliotheca CloudLibrary (3,000 public libraries) and Odilo (2,100 public libraries in North America, South America and Europe).

Formerly the BlackBerry app only worked with audiobooks and now that it supports library ebooks as well, that makes four different mobile platforms you can get free ebooks from libraries with — Android, iPad / iPhone, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry — plus desktop computers of course.

Since the second American Libraries supplement on ebooks and digital content was published in mid-2012, four of the Big Six publishers — Hachette Book Group, Penguin, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster — have initiated pilot library ebook programs.

The Douglas County (Colo.) Libraries Pricing Comparison for April (PDF file) shows a continuing trend with library ebook prices running at an average of 5.3 times the consumer price.

Of 30 titles, all 30 are available as library ebooks from OverDrive and 29 are available through 3M.

Hachette dropped out of the library market in 2009, so their backlist is still in library ebook catalogs, but not their new books.

The Digital Reader then throws cold water on OverDrive's numbers, suggesting «the stats represent OverDrive doing more business more than an increase in library ebook adoption among patrons.»

One interesting detail, the new Sony WiFi will be able to download library ebooks wirelessly.

The Business Model Scorecard is a new a report that examines specific variables often seen in library ebook license contracts.