Sentences with phrase «library lending into»

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She took a moment out of her busy schedule to discuss the evolutionary growth of ebooks in the library, how the discovery of content is a top priority, what it took to talk Simon & Schuster and Penguin into joining the library lending model, and how libraries are selling ebooks.

Overdrive, the largest company devoted to digital library lending has just expanded into Japan.

While visitors still had to come into their libraries to access the list of titles, they were gaining this access to content that wasn't readily available for device lending elsewhere.

An article for Mainichi.jp on the ups and down of digital library lending in Japan demonstrated some interesting parallels to what readers in other countries have faced when trying to shift into a digital lending mindset.

The essence of the pilot is to carry out real - time, real - world research into the impact of eBook lending in public libraries on authors, publishers and on the library service so that a suitable and sustainable model.

Overdrive is basically providing a ton of tools over the next six months that will allow most people to write their own apps with library lending functionality built right into it.

More importantly, it's an acceptable solution when considering that the alternative is to not be able to offer ebook lending to their patrons, an initiative that libraries will have to offer if they plan to move forward into a future where so many readers are going digital.

Penguin, which removed all of its e-books from libraries and ended its relationship with digital library distributor OverDrive in February, is tiptoeing back into the digital lending waters again.

According to the February 10 post in Publisher's Lunch, forcing patrons to come into the library to borrow ebooks is also the appropriate model for ebook lending.

A lending library that allows the user to have access to the title only one time could very well translate into even higher numbers of sales, as consumers opt to buy a title that they particularly enjoyed.

Unfortunately, a report that was released earlier this year showed that one way publishers are looking into protecting authors is to ban off - site or remote ebook lending, thereby requiring patrons to come into their local libraries in order to borrow ebooks, essentially destroying one of the key advantages to e-reading, namely, the portability and anywhere access to ebooks.

This coincides with the existing agreements that Smashwords already has to put tiers of ebooks into public library ebook lending circulation.

Thousands of academic, professional and public libraries around the world have integrated the platform into daily lending activities, and have access to hundreds of thousands of titles that cover all major disciplines.

A library system can often only afford to deal with one wholesaler, the costs of integration into lending systems are too high for them to choose between multiple vendors.

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

One thing forgot to mention is with Kindle if you want to get into their «Kindle select» (their lending library where you get royalties when people loan your book out) you do sign an exclusive deal with them but it's only for 90 days with a clear cutoff date when you can re-sign if you want.

All I know is that if given a chance, I would definitely put the Peachville High Demons books into the lending library.

My only question is how do I get Beautiful Demons into the lending library?

This will allow you to create your own library lending apps or build the functionality into an e-reader or tablet.

Would readers really pledge money in order to strip a book of its DRM and copyright in order to thrust it into the public domain and make it available anywhere for library lending?

The news that HarperCollins had put restrictions into its e-book licenses for lending library services so that each «acquired» title could only be loaned out 26 times was fresh and appeared as a side note in my article.

Now, the government is looking into mandated ebook lending and the creation of virtual libraries.

The goal was to establish real - time, real - world research into the impact of eBook lending in public libraries to placate authors, publishers and find a sustainable model.

For indie authors and publishers who can agree to Amazon's list of demands, notably making their works available exclusively through Amazon for a set period of time and allowing their works to be loaned through the Kindle lending library, there is a fund of $ 6 million, divided into monthly amounts, allocated to pay authors as ebooks are borrowed.

But the extension of OverDrive lending to the Kindle flipped libraries into the Amazon column.

I will be honest, I've been waiting for some publisher to start backing out of library programs using the same argument they have about not allowing e-book lending — that allowing someone to walk into a library and borrow a book is costing the publisher sales.

Yeah, it looks an awful lot like an Amazon shopping page and I have to be logged into my Amazon account to get the book... The NYPL's Christopher Platt recently told Publishing Trends that since Kindle added library lending, «Our average new - patron registrations have more than doubled from 80 a day to 172 a day.

Second, yet another major trade book publisher, Penguin, got into a spat with public libraries over e-book lending.

Amazon does its free - lending - library thing because it wrote the rights to do so into its contracts with non-major publishers (and with authors who signed on directly with Amazon).

The other librarians were not in agreement with Marx's suggestion that libraries should consider introducing more «friction» into the lending of ebooks to address publishers» fears that library lending will destroy the nascent consumer market for ebooks.

Enter the Authors Guild who believes that the authors have not given their publishers the right to enlist their books into this lending library, even if they're getting paid for each loan.

Most of the the library and ebook pundits go over the nitty - gritty details of the Kindle Lending Library, compare the extremely restrictive terms of Amazon's initial foray into lending services with the vast array of library offerings, and pronounce that libraries have nothing to worry about.

I don't haven't looked into it at all, but I assume that Amazon has a reason that they don't yet offer things like the lending library on the app (non-Kindle hardware) versions.

Presumably this will also come into play with library lending models, but it's an interesting development to look out for as Baker and Taylor is such a large jobber.

One of those reasons: Publishers might worry that e-book library lending will cut into sales.

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Two years ago, publisher William Sieghart's review into remote e-lending said that public libraries should be able to lend ebooks remotely.

In a press release this morning, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has announced that they have been working with Overdrive to integrate the Kindle into a library lending friendly system and will be rolling out the product of these efforts later this year.

Students in Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts (SCA) have repurposed and decorated 11 newspaper boxes into miniature lending libraries now available across downtown Vancouver.

The Dutch reference for a preliminary ruling is based on the following facts: A report commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture had opined that the lending of e-books did not fall within the scope of application of Directive 2006/115 (as transposed into Dutch law) and, as a result, libraries could not benefit from an exception to the exclusive lending right to lend e-books to the public.

This would enable also smaller libraries to engage into public lending of e-books, the concrete implications on the relevant market and business models related to public e-lending are difficult to predict.