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For more proof that the DPLA and typical public library patrons live on different planets, just look at the Alexa graph to the right — showing how how few people are now visiting the DPLA's Web site.

Along with negotiating to get more digital rights management - free ePub and MP3 formats into the collection, they have Library bin, or «buy it now» options for patrons to buy eContent and support the library's collection budget.

Hoopla gives library patrons access to over 300,000 movies, TV shows, full music albums, audiobooks, and now they've just added ebooks and comics to their selections as well.

In a recent survey of over 1,000 patrons conducted in conjunction with the Washington State Library on the effectiveness of the state's Library Now app, 85.5 % stated they use the Library Now App, and 74.8 % use the library's other online services.

Today the Axis 360 platform now allows library patrons to have access to all library materials from the online catalog — whether physical or digital — and creates a convenient experience for borrowing and enjoying ebooks and digital audiobooks in the patron's favorite reading apps and on their device of choice.

The system is now fully integrated and live within the Polaris ILS, allowing patrons at participating libraries to discover, check out, and place holds on both physical and digital collections in just one catalog.

Overdrive has announced that library patrons using their system have now borrowed over 100 million audiobooks and eBooks in 2015.

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Many libraries are now turning to social media to promote their branch and to foster discussion with their patrons.

The Axis 360 browser reader is live right now for libraries who want to use it, but it remains to be seen if patrons can use it to read their e-books outside of the library.

One of the polarizing issues in the U.S. ebook market right now is the conflict over public library access to ebook titles for lending, but we may be able to take a lesson from Libranda's new partnership with OverDrive to afford access to new and bestselling ebook titles to library patrons in Spain.

Ebook provider ebrary announced this morning that it has now added the Boston Library Consortium to its growing list of library systems that rely on the company to make publishers» titles available for online reading by its member patrons.

The Value Line online investment resource is now available online for all Lebanon County Libraries patrons!

But even beyond featuring community authors, a library could find a way to engage it's own patrons in contests or even just a bulletin board with «what we're reading now» or something where customers could make recommendations.

3M's Cloud Library eBook Lending Service is now aligned with those goals to help libraries and their patrons.

Other notable authors now available to library patrons include Glenn Beck, Cassandra Clare, Kresley Cole, Rachel Renée Russell and Brad Thor.

In addition, once a title has been added to the catalog by the library, the requesting patron will receive an email stating that it is now available through the library.

Now, Hachette Group is experimenting with a limited population of libraries and patrons being allowed to have lending access to its titles, although it hasn't disclosed where and which libraries.

With Axis 360, library patrons can now use virtually any of the top multi-function phones, tablets, and e-reader devices to find, check out, and read digital titles from their local library.

Now, an article in The Digital Shift outlines how much work was required to complete the deal as the parties had to weed, filter, and tweak a list of indie titles to develop the optimal collection for library patrons.

Using Baker & Taylor's suite of API services, libraries using the TLC system can now provide their patrons with full search and discovery of Axis 360 titles, view real - time availability, and complete a checkout or place a hold with one - click right from the library's online catalog.

Hoopla is signing up 15 — 30 library systems every month thousands of patrons are now enjoying e-books and comics.

«There has been a strong eBook demand from library patrons and as we break new ground in mobile access and patron reach across North America, we will continue to advance our best - of - breed technology, while transforming the library experience with mobile access to the latest movies, TV shows, documentaries, educational videos and now eBooks,» said Jankowski.

Jones said library patrons can now also borrow from a list of some 34,000 mostly classic e-books that have in the public domain for years.

And although major publishers now seem to have come to terms with a need to make ebook access available to library patrons, the large subset of independent authors has found little joy among the stacks.

Now, txtr is also helping create the technology behind the browsing capability of the Discovery Terminals and the cloud - based searching for patrons who choose to peruse the catalog from outside the library.

Some of those numbers can be attributed to the work that OverDrive has done on its WIN catalog of titles, which stands for «Want It Now,» not usually a sentiment that is associated with library patrons.

E-book lending is a fairly controversial topic right now, with a number of publishers wary of releasing their digital titles to platforms that allow library patrons to borrow digital copies of bestselling titles.

«Our library and school partners have been asking for their award - winning titles, and we are pleased to be able to make these valuable titles available now to students and patrons worldwide.»

Many libraries now loan eBooks that you can «check out» just like hard copies — and some even allow patrons to borrow to e-Readers, too!

He also described record growth in e-book borrowing, as well as OverDrive's latest innovation, which the company calls its WIN (for «Want It Now») Catalog of titles which library patrons can discover and purchase through the library web sites.

That prospect has finally come to fruition as OverDrive officially announced today that periodicals are now available for libraries to purchase and add to their collections for lending to patrons.

The Westchester Library System (WLS) is pleased to announce that patrons can now view the library catalog records via basic browser searches.

Now, library patrons have yet another way to take the library and its books with them wherever they go.»

The sticking point for me is that once my first book was approved, I received an email from the SELF - e people that now it was my turn to work — they wanted me to go to my local libraries and convince them to purchase the software needed to offer SELF - e's eBooks to the library patrons.

There's now an array of established vendors and emerging options for libraries to choose from in order to deliver ebooks to patrons.

Now libraries offer their patrons an average of about 10,000 ebooks for lending, either as part of the library's own collection or available through a consortium.

I've had a couple of patrons already say something along the lines of, «Well, now that Amazon is doing your job for you, I guess I'd better hurry up and get my money's worth out of this library before it closes!»

One way this issue is managed is by partnering with an e-book distributor such as OverDrive, which manages an array of digital content for 18,000 libraries and schools in 21 countries, including 15,000 in the United States.47 OverDrive generally charges public libraries a set fee for use of their checkout system, as well as a fee per title for patrons to borrow.48 The OverDrive catalog for libraries now includes 700,000 copyrighted e-book, audiobook, music, and video titles in 52 languages.

Faced with the option of purchasing a single James Patterson novel for around $ 40.00, or ten thrillers from today's most popular indie authors at $ 4.00 each, libraries now have exciting new options to build patron - pleasing ebook collections.

Through this agreement, patrons of participating public libraries can now borrow Marvel works like, THOR: GOD OF THUNDER VOL.

The majority of the Court obviously rejected this view and has now rendered three decisions where the intermediary copier stands in the shoes of the beneficiary — CCH (library copying for patron), Alberta (Education)(teacher copying for student), and Bell (Apple making song previews for customers).

The Harry Potter e-books, which will be released for the first time by Pottermore in April (after months of delays), are now appearing in the New York Public Library's e-book collection and library patrons can reserve them.