We can either buy a top device like Kindle and stop enjoying it once we discover there is not that much to buy here or we can go for
a local ebook system (ebookstore + device).
Not exact matches
3M's Library
System loves to show up at a packed conference and show off something new and innovative for the world of library
ebook lending, such as at last year's ALA Conference when all the buzz was about the dedicated e-reader designed specifically to be checked out from
local public libraries.
Patrons can borrow a digital book from their
local libraries (as long as its an Overdrive supported one) or they can buy
eBooks (from a company using Overdrives WhiteLabel Bookstore
system).
I've got an iPad full of a gazillion - affordably - priced -
ebooks I purchased and haven't read yet; a house full of hundreds of print books I've yet to read; an ongoing addiction to big, old, dusty secondhand bookstores; and I belong to two big
local library
system with excellent print and
ebook selections / services.
«The 3M Cloud Library App offers Nook users seamless access to lendable
ebooks through their
local library,» said Tom Mercer, 3M Library
Systems Digital Business Development Leader.
AuthorImprints Services:
eBook conversion About the book: Droves of people have turned to
local food as a way to retreat from our broken industrial food
system.
Vodafone — the accused - but - never - admitted cause of the hold - up — will be the mobile carrier, providing
local 3G support for Amazon's Whispernet
system by which Kindle books can be delivered wirelessly over the cellular network with the communications cost built into the price of the
ebook.
I personally think the Booki.sh
system would be ideally suited to an
ebook rental model which would provide a point of differrence and might also address some of the concerns about buying an
ebook that you can't download — if you're only renting it for a week or a month, you'll pay less and you won't be so concerned that you don't have a
local copy to keep.
You seem to be refusing to understand that one
ebook purchase that is then spread around to hundreds of thousands or millions of people is different than a
local library
system having three copies of a book for a few million people to share.