Sentences with phrase «library vendor overdrive»

The library world was thrilled at the September 21 announcement that library vendor OverDrive had enabled its library customers to loan the ebooks they'd licensed from OverDrive to patrons with Kindle e-readers — provided that the ebooks were in Kindle - maker Amazon's sales inventory.

Not exact matches

OverDrive, the biggest vendor of e-books for libraries, gets no love in this article.

Print - on - demand or e-only titles are only accepted for consideration if the item is readily available through standard library vendors (such as Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Overdrive, etc.).

To date, dozens of OverDrive partners — including ILS vendors, mobile app makers, library partners and others — have expressed interest in the new tools.

The library will buy the selected titles that are published on Smashwords through its e-book vendor, OverDrive.

We don't usually mention particular vendors on our site (outside of our guide to library eBook vendors), but RF would like to thank OverDrive for being responsive and taking another small step in making thier sitre more library user friendly and in accord with RF principles.

And only OverDrive among the library digital vendors offers much in the way of recent release eComics, and that only a small fraction of what's potentially available.

Working with vendor OverDrive, which manages e-book lending for the vast majority of public libraries, the deal will make thousands of titles available via more than 11,000 of OverDrive's public library partners.

I envision a variety of business models in use, but if nothing else, libraries could buy multiple e-copies (or at least «copies» as they would exist for accounting purposes) of popular e-books, just as they can now under arrangements with OverDrive and other vendors.

Distributes to: Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, OverDrive, Scribd, Oyster, Baker & Taylor (operates Blio, a popular e-reading app, and also operates Axis360 which distributes ebooks to public libraries), txtr, mobile phone app vendors (Aldiko on Android; Kobo on all mobile platforms) and other online venues (must upload to KDP yourself)

Wow, I work in a library (that has Overdrive and several other eBook vendors), yet I hadn't heard about this app.

The panelists were Christopher Platt of the New York Public Library, Ruth Liebmann of Random House, George Coe from the book distributor Baker and Taylor and Steve Potash from Overdrive, a software company that provides ebooks to vendors and libraries, including the Los Angeles Public Library.

It includes well known retailers vendors such as Amazon and lesser known vendors such as NetLibrary and Overdrive that distribute eBooks through library sales programs.

It will allow all the libraries that have purchased ebooks from more than one vendor, including OverDrive, 3M's Cloud Library, and Baker & Taylor's Access 360 product, to seamlessly serve all those collections through a single application.

I also find it hard to believe that Amazon will suddenly decide to embrace Adobe DRM... which means that there is little chance that library books via Overdrive or another vendor that are in the epub or pdf format will start working on the Kindle.

So what happens if a vendor or publisher chooses to pull a library «purchased» e-title from their lending inventory, or fifty years from now OverDrive is no longer around, or the proprietary formats have changed or disappeared?

Not so: This from Collection Development news from OverDrive 1/4/12: «Effective January 31, 2012, as instructed by the publisher, BrillianceAudio will suspend the availability of all download audiobook titles for library purchase across all vendors.

Toronto Public Library just topped a list of US and Canadian libraries in terms of digital checkouts, according to library ebook vendor OverDrive.

In its November decision to not allow library lending of its new titles (via any vendor), Penguin had initially also targeted OverDrive's relationship with Amazon as a particular concern, which led the company to demand that OverDrive disable the «Get for Kindle» functionality for all Penguin ebooks.