Sentences with phrase «library loans»

It will allow people to track library loans, circulation figures, and essential metrics.

And unfortunately, library loans don't count toward bestsellers list.

Research shows that library loans encourage people to buy books.

Second, Sony is expanding their support of library loans on all their Readers.

There is lots wrong with Amazon's program today, but a lot more is wrong with the way public libraries loan eBooks.

24 % of school libraries loan out ebook readers; about 50 % of schools have a one - to - one policy, which means that each student has his or her own tablet / device for at least part of a school day.

Although the focus of this article is largely on the writing contest (described below), through which the winner gets his or her work provided for library loan through Overdrive, the broader issue — the partnership between Smashwords and public libraries — is, I think, even more interesting.

- We also have a terrific library loan program, and I have read every semi-natural birthing book I can get my hands on.

Our friendly librarian at the Duncan library loaned me your book about self - publishing for one week but, because I am mostly blind, I haven't been able to read much if it.

According to the recent report in American Libraries, when ALA President Molly Raphael met with the Big 6 publishers in New York recently, many of the executives from those publishers were laboring under the mistaken belief libraries loaned ebooks to anyone who happened to click through their websites.

In the same survey, 38 % of students from other countries did not know that their local libraries loaned ebooks, compared with only six percent in the UK, lending a lot of weight to Sayar's assessment that UK students just may be more familiar with where and how to access digital titles.

«Our usage is going up as well,» said Platt as he pointed out that New York libraries loaned more than 28 million items in 2010.

Most libraries loan out hardcover books until they can not be mended, that is more than twenty - six times.

These are my recent library loans.

«After all even putatively anti-DRM folks, like O'Reilly, don't want libraries to loan books to patrons who will never have to delete them, and so they are using DRM with library loans.»

In the general public, even many of those who presumably have an interest in knowing about the availability of free library loans of e-books are not sure about the situation at their local library:

However, one upshot of those talks, as LJ reported, was publishers» concerns that if library loans become too «frictionless,» in other words, do not involve a physical trip to the library to borrow and return a book, that it will eat into their sales.

These include tools for reading magazines and ebooks — including library loans, purchases and Project Gutenberg downloads.

Would I recommend the Nexus 10 as rugged enough for library loans, with the protection in place?

Pilots carried out into remote e-lending from libraries have found that e-books accounted for less than 5 % of library loans, with footfall to libraries and... Read more

Also once I returned / deleted it I received an email from Amazon saying «Your public library loan has ended».

I would recommend this book as a library loan, rather than a purchase.

But the writers felt entitled to $ 1.40 from a library loan?

Other features that I'd like to have in an ereader are the ability to wirelessly transfer or email files and library loans to the device.

Conducting Research - There is a broad range of resources available to you in the library including books, online databases, journals, inter library loans and subject Internet gateways.

especially since Kobo allows for library loans.

Overdrive has experienced another year of solid growth when it comes to libraries loaning out digital content.

Libraries loan out ebooks which you can borrow and read directly on your Kobo Aura One or Kindle.

The library loaned out 7,147 e-readers and over 102,243 e-book circulations were made since September 2013.

And then shouldn't that download count, same as a library loan?

The library loans should count.

If money changes hands on a library loan, that is a transaction, and hence is equivalent in terms of author's standing as a sale.

When authors and publishers look at the severe budget cuts that libraries battle with, and the limited funds they have to buy books, they rightly ask where the money will come from and what might happen as these library loans take an ever larger share of the market.

Most notably, ePub is used for ebook library loans, and is missing from the Kindle format line - up.

Pilots carried out into remote e-lending from libraries have found that e-books accounted for less than 5 % of library loans, with footfall to libraries and bookshops likely to drop as digital borrowers are less likely to visit branches.

Pilots carried out into remote e-lending from libraries have found that e-books accounted for less than 5 % of library loans, with footfall to libraries and...

Overdrive, a major distributor of ebooks in the public library world, found itself caught between the publishing powerhouse and a furious library community when it was announced that library loans of ebooks would be capped at 26.