Sentences with phrase «loan out e-books»

But I'd argue that letting people loan out e-books will produce some of the same advantages that used - book sales provide in the print world.

The move bolsters Rakuten's e-book business and puts a global spin on Overdrive's core function, which revolves around a digital distribution platform that many libraries use to loan out e-books.

Create a site, where individuals can loan out the e-books that they purchased.

Others are pissed they can't loan out e-books to friends or find themselves locked into one specific ecosystem and can't transfer their purchases to other phones they buy, due to DRM.

A few times a year Overdrive orchestrates a program where libraries can loan out an e-book with an unlimited number of loans.

Not exact matches

Some guys make libraries pay a normal amount, but anytime an e-book is loaned out more than 26 times, the library has to buy the e-book again.

Sadly If a library offers this e-book, they can only loan it out 26 times before they have to buy it again.

Over 10 different libraries in the US and Canada had over one million digital loans in 2014, with two libraries lending out two million e-Books.

This is a program that has been transpiring for a number of years and basically gives libraries the ability to have access to a free e-book title to loan out an unlimited number of times during a small... [Read more...]

The company has just announced that 105 million e-Books were loaned out globally, which is a 32 % increase from 2013.

The money they get primarily goes to staff and insuring there are enough print and e-books to be loaned out to everyone.

I have talked extensively to the administration of the American Library Association about their efforts to get more favorable e-book pricing and they told me that «The reason why publishers are so hostile to libraries is because the e-Books are loaned out to people who might otherwise be customers, they the publishers need to compensate for those perceived losses.»

Disregarding the licensing statement they agreed to when they purchased those e-books, they say, «I have the right to loan out my print books to as many people as I want, so what's the difference?»

In the last two years over 4.5 million e-books and other digital content have been loaned out.

Every single library that offers e-books loans them out in EPUB or the PDF format.

On an average week in Canada over 63,196 e-books are loaned out from the libraries.

Overdrive reported that in 2015 there were over ten libraries that loaned out over one million e-books and many others that eclipsed the two million mark.

In 2015 over 30 different libraries in Canada and the United States loaned out over 1 million e-book titles.

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.

This would make millions of librarians jobs far easier when loaning out physical copies at their branch, but more importantly e-books.

I surmise that by the end of the year there will be 5 libraries that loan out two million audiobooks and e-books.

The digital collections in public libraries has expanded substantially over the last few years, and in 2015 over one - million e-books were loaned out in 30 libraries.

Check - out period is 3 weeks, with the option of one renewal, for a total loan period of 6 weeks.Loan periods for e-books and e-audiobooks vary.

It is good to see also that the loan of an e-book can only be made to one customer at a time, and that after two years a new licence has to be taken out.

In addition, due to restrictions placed on them by publishers, libraries can only loan each copy of an e-book they've purchased out to one person at a time.

I use that same observation about loaning out printed books when authors tell me they're reluctant to sell e-books because they're afraid they will get passed around too freely.

Many local libraries will let you check out an e-book on loan — just as you can do with a regular book.

Lendink was a hobby site put together by disabled army vet Dale Porter, who created a person - to - person e-mail request system where e-book fans could find out about lend - enabled books on Amazon and Barnes & Noble and contact each other to arrange loans on titles they wanted to read.

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.

Although many people had strong feelings regarding whether libraries should loan e-books, only 28 % of poll - takers reported ever having checked out an e-book from a library.

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...