Libraries on the other hand, may lose their role altogether if
they lose access to ebooks.
This brought a quick response from Amazon's Andrew Herdener, who wrote in to boing boing to say that the changes were as much a surprise to Amazon as they were to libraries that
lost access to their ebooks.
Not exact matches
Provide unlimited, simultaneous,
access to quality
eBooks to every student and teacher without the hassle of checkouts, worn, limited or
lost copies, and date content
«With unlimited
access to hundreds of thousands of titles, Kindle Unlimited offers by far the simplest and most cost - effective way
to explore and discover
eBooks and audiobooks together, and you can even switch from reading
to listening without
losing your place.
The lawsuit alleges that the defendants violated several key antitrust acts by forcing Amazon
to raise the price of
ebooks or risk
losing access to the digital editions of books from those five publishing houses.
Often, they'll buy an
ebook «outright» from the publisher but will
lose access to it if they stop paying their library IT supplier's monthly
access fees.
Not only could this result in consumers
losing convenient
access to their library of
ebooks, as discussed earlier, but perhaps more seriously, it could conceivably lock future researchers and historians out of some of our most important records and documents.
The clientele tends
to be individuals who have
lost their vision later in life, so learning
to access ebooks and ebookstores through multi-purpose tablets is a secondary consideration
to simple devices that are easy
to use and easy
to get content for.