Sentences with phrase «library lending services»

Earlier this past week, OverDrive announced that they have just launched their library lending services in Japan.

Downloads through OverDrive's library lending service increased by 24 % in 2015.

Amazon also is planning a new library lending service soon that will allow you to borrow books from a public library.

The second main element is an Overdrive shortcut, that takes you to the Sony website with a stripped down version of the digital library lending service.

This is why 3M was using Txtr e-reader to demonstrate the cloud library lending service.

I always allow my ebooks to be lent, and they are available at Scribd and for Overdrive (the library lending service) as well.

Indeed, public libraries are experiencing major growth in e-book lending, especially since Amazon joined the e-lending world by opening up its DRM to enable lending and integrating it with OverDrive's library lending service.

Not exact matches

As a health provider who offers services to children and pregnant women, I'll be adding The No - Cry Potty Solution to our lending library shelves.»

Yesterday OverDrive announced that they have resolved a technical issue with their library ebook lending service that had caused a number of Kindle - formatted ebooks not to appear available for lending.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]

Penguin made waves in the eBook industry when it pulled out of Overdrive and all of the other services that facilitated the lending of eBooks via your local library.

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.

Three public library systems in Minnesota, overseeing a total of twenty - five individual libraries, became the most recent of the eighty library systems across the country to benefit from 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service's help in utilizing ebook lending for their patrons.

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.

Overdrive intends on releasing a massive amount of metrics based on all of the schools and libraries that use their service for the facilitation of ebook and audiobook lending.

Digital magazine newsstand platform Zinio and leading audiobook provider Recorded Bookshave joined to offer a digital magazine lending service to public libraries.

The essence of this new service is providing a digital content distribution system for libraries and hardware to facilitate the lending process.

This has given rise to services like Overdrive, which facilitate the licensing of e-books from publishers for library lending purposes.

The Adobe platform supports library lending and in fact is at the heart of Overdrive's public library e-book lending service.

For Kindle owners, however, the service also provides access to a plethora of more than 800,000 ebooks via its lending library.

According to the ALA, «58 percent of all library card holders said they did not know whether their library provides e-book lending services.»

Amazon had partnered with OverDrive, an e-book and audiobook distributor, to deliver an e-book lending service to 11,000 libraries in the U.S..

I agree that the model they have with services like Overdrive is somewhat problematic, more of a lease than ownership, and I agree that traditional publishers have been unreasonable here, but e-book lending is an extremely high growth, high use area for my library system.

• «Redbox» - style lending machines or kiosks located throughout the community where people can check out books, movies or music without having to go to the library itself: 33 % of Americans ages 16 and older would «very likely» use that service and another 30 % say they would be «somewhat likely» to do so.

Addressing these concerns will require OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).

Simplifying digital lending for libraries, this system offers an end - to - end, easy to implement and manage service.

The format, which allows readers to not only read on PCs and Macs as well as portable devices through Zinio dedicated apps but also supports multiple - user simultaneous checkouts, lets lending libraries select a portfolio of titles as well as a subscription based on different services offered.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

58 % of all library card holders say they do not know if their library provides e-book lending services.

«This spike in library lending of eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video is the result of the tremendous efforts of thousands of librarians, as well as significant ease - of - use improvements including seamless integration with library catalogs,» said Shannon Lichty, OverDrive's Director of Partner Services.

The first recommendation made was that libraries lending digital books to their members should be a service that is provided free of charge, and should be an essential function of the library service.

3M Library Systems, creators of cloud - based ebook lending and a library - specific e-reader device for patron checkout, and OverDrive, the leading provider of ebooks, audio books, and downloads to over 18,000 public libraries, may be competitors in the services they provide, but they are united in the fact that their work is intended to increase the capabilities of public libraries to provide ebook lending services to patrons.

The real benefit of Sony Reader devices is that they also support library lending, so if your local public library offers this service (powered by OverDrive), you'll be able to borrow books for free.

In the last couple of weeks, we've seen New Zealand public libraries announcing plans for the imminent launch of ebook lending services.

A local initiative developed by library and educational book supplier Wheelers launches a trial next month of its homegrown ebook lending service with Tauranga and Hamilton library districts.

About 40 library regions have signed up with OverDrive, the US service provider that currently leads the market in public library lending.

When Publishing Perspectives asks Tellander about his view on how his services could impact audiobook lending services from public libraries, he concedes that library availability is a double - edged sword to services like Storytel.

Amazon has just launched its lending library service in the UK, which lets Amazon Prime users borrow one book a month.

Kindles: Amazon has a larger catalog of modern books because amazon has been in the e-book market longer than anyone other.They have 2,00,000 Kindle exclusive e-books with many from the famous authors who publish directly via amazon.There are not many choices to buy e-books for the kindle from other stores or free book sites.The bought books are stored in the cloud.Just keep the local copies of the books.You can also lend a book to a friend once for 14 days.Amazon also has kindle lending library which is currently available only to amazon prime subscribers.Thus via this service borrow books and read without buying.You can also read e-books loaned from the public libraries.Getting the loaded books onto the device is simpler on kindle unlike the nook.The books can easily be downloaded wirelessly via whisper sync service (an AT&T 3G powered connection).

They have signed agreements with Random House and IPG to form a cloud based ebook lending service to be offered to libraries.

Libraries need to adopt a broad strategy to offer a digital lending service that allows anyone in the entire country to get a membership card and borrow ebooks.

62 % of adults say they know that their local libraries have e-book lending programs, while 22 % say they do not know whether their libraries offer the service 41 % of adults say they know their local libraries have online career and job - related resources.

«I am very surprised that publishers who have resisted library e-book lending for years are now embracing subscription services.

This service is free to Brooklyn Public Library patrons; however, fines and fees assessed by the lending library do apply.

«The 3M Cloud Library eBook lending service has simplified the discovery, browsing and check out process for eBooks so that more patrons can enjoy the digital content their library provides.»

To date, Kindle has been noticeably absent from library lending, as OverDrive's service worked only with ePub - enabled devices, including the Sony Reader, the Nook, iPads, and smartphones.

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.

Further complicating the issue is that many libraries don't have their own system in place for storing and lending e-books, but rather have to depend on subscription services like Overdrive or the recently sold 3M system.

I'm somewhat surprised that you haven't touched on another OverDrive DRM - powered lending service provided by libraries: audiobooks.

Service providers like Overdrive and NetLibrary have arisen to make it possible for libraries to «lend» e-books in a way that is very similar to the way they lend hardcopy books: you get access to the e-book for the library's lending period (perhaps a couple of weeks, or for a reference work, a few hours), and then it «disappears» from your device and becomes available to another library member.