Not exact matches
Subscription - based models a la Netflix or Rdio — where
users pay a regular fee for access to the service's
library without owning the movies or music — will be increasingly dominant, said Dina Leytes, practice group chair of intellectual property and new media for Griesing Law in Philadelphia.
The big selling point is that they have
libraries adopt their entire digital catalog free and
libraries only
pay a fee when
users borrow an audiobook, eBook or graphic novel.
The essence of this service is to utilize Demand - Driven Acquisition that will allow
libraries to display thousands of e-book titles and only
pay when
users borrow the e-book.
If it's limited to one digital «copy» per license that can only be held by one
user at a time, then
libraries should not be forced to
pay any more per book than your typical
user... not THAT much more anyway.
Best of all, there's no differentiation on the shelves for
pay - per - use or
library - purchased titles, meaning
users don't have to wade through different search results to find a title.
A
library who participates in OverDrive is a subscription model, just as a single
user who
pays a monthly fee for Oyster or Scribd is as well.
Overdrive announced a new Cost Per Circ system last year and it allows
libraries to have a huge influx of digital content that can loaned out to as many
users as they want simultaneously and
libraries only
pay when the audiobook or ebook is actually borrowed.
The one copy - one
user format enable publishers and authors to be
paid for their work and also ensures that they provide us those books for our
libraries.
While Kotobee offers this free download option,
paid accounts let
users create mobile apps (Android, iOS, and Windows Phone), have the option to host the book online on the company's servers, and give them the ability to create cloud ebooks and a cloud - based ebook
library.
They make their entire collection available on a
libraries website and
libraries only
pay money when a
user checkouts an e-books.
ODILO's easy - to - use eBook platform, quality content, and flexible lending models (One - Copy / One -
User,
Pay - per - Use, Simultaneous, and Subscription) help schools and
libraries better serve their students, educators, and families.
If
Libraries were actually allowed to have simultaneous
users on Ebooks, we could understand the higher prices, and we could even justify
paying them since we wouldn't need multiple copies.
The Story HD also supports Adobe EPUB and PDFs with DRM, so
users can also enjoy e-books from public
libraries and
paid titles — offline.
To help consortia and
library groups stretch their budgets further, ODILO offers various lending models, including one - copy / one -
user,
Pay - per - Use, simultaneous access, and / or subscription.
The APP said audio book downloads increased by 38.1 percent in 2015 and services such as Audible, where
users pay a monthly subscription to access a
library of audio books, are growing.
«We abide by the DRM standards, we expose their authors to thousands of readers and we
pay for the books and e-books, so why can't they make more of an effort to work with
libraries instead of restricting
library users on their options to read digitally?»
Users who want to take advantage of the service's mobile features, which include offline caching and access to the full Spotify
library, must
pay a $ 10 monthly subscription fee.
Again I say approach Jeff Bezos and seriously see how
libraries can buy e-books from Amazon at the prices
paid by Kindle owners; iPad
users, etc..
However, the
library, premium content, website and other offers are only available to
paid -
users.
Its online marketplace provides a freely searchable
library of commercial digital images that
users can
pay to license, download and incorporate into their work.
So if you're a
user of the console, access your game
library immediately and try out new games without
paying a single penny.
In order to access its
library of online titles,
users will be expected to
pay a monthly fee to Nintendo, although its a smaller price compared to competitors.
When you're maintaining an open source
library, and you're not getting
paid for it, and nobody's helping you, and you're constantly fielding complaints from
users that this or...
Users browse the
library of available games,
pay the rental fee and stream the video feed of a game, which is being at an offsite server farm.
Netflix is employing a multi-pronged approach to growing its streaming
library: Get long - tail content on the cheap,
pay top dollar for popular programming that will draw new
users, and make some bets on exclusive original programming to differentiate from other video services.