Sentences with phrase «make ebook lending»

In the meantime, OverDrive introduced its WIN platform that works to make ebook lending even more beneficial for libraries, publishers, and patrons.

Just when it seems that libraries and publishers are finally coming to terms on how to make ebook lending feasible, another blow is struck to the libraries and patrons.

After exploring how libraries can address the needs of patrons of various age demographics, Coates» first issue was that of the physical location of libraries, one impediment that has actually made ebook lending all the more attractive to patrons who wish to borrow books but still live so far away that a trip to the library has to be intentional and justifiable.

Not exact matches

From the initial six hundred - plus titles that the publisher originally offered, Macmillan has now made more than 12,000 ebooks available to school libraries for student lending.

While the first library to offer ebook lending in Japan did so as far back as 2007, it seems that the mistakes US libraries and Japanese libraries made at the onset went hand in hand.

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.

This agreement will make more than 5,000 technical, medical, and professional titles available for ebook lending; more than 700 of these titles are recently published works.

Penguin made waves in the eBook industry when it pulled out of Overdrive and all of the other services that facilitated the lending of eBooks via your local library.

Digital content provider OverDrive made a monumental announcement today in saying that Macmillan has made its entire ebook catalog available for the first time for lending through OverDrive's school library partners.

Library lending of ebooks and other digital content is finally gaining a foothold in the industry as publishers and lending institutions come to some measure of agreement on how to make it work.

While the struggle for a satisfactory condition continues in the world of ebook lending for public libraries, some companies are still managing to make progress with digital catalogs.

Much like the headache of licensing ebooks to libraries stateside, Japanese patrons and librarians have been frustrated by the lack of bestselling and new release content available for digital lending, for many of the same reasons that publishers in the US have balked at making their entire catalogs available to libraries, namely fears that print sales will decline.

The British government had formed a task force earlier this year to investigate the potential impact of ebook lending in order to consider mandating lending; the task force was made up of voices from various sectors in the book industry, but the news led to concerns that libraries would possibly suffer in an era of all - digital lending adoption.

Interesting to note that Amazon announced in April that they're interested in the library ebook market after all http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?ID=1552678&c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle and Overdrive is making changes to boost the Amazon program and also simplify ebook lending for libraries http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2011/06/overdrive-update-helps-amazon-program.html

In return, Amazon makes the ebook available in their lending library, paying authors a percentage of fees allocated, and also allows authors to initiate free ebook give - away promotions.

Due to the importance of the topic at hand, namely, reforming the way publishers and libraries work together on ebook lending, Coates has made his notes available to the media in order to understand the sweeping calls he is making for both sides.

We have no current plans to sue, and don't know of any authors who are planning to do so — we would hope that the Government would recognise its legal and moral responsibility to make payments to authors particularly as ebook lending from libraries is becoming significant.»

As it stands now, pricing is making it almost impossible for libraries to fully support ebook lending.

ALA Chairwoman Bonnie Tijerina expressed her gratitude to the stalwart publisher for being a part of the discussions surrounding ebook lending and libraries, a move that many felt began to erase some of the feelings of punitive decision - making that the original announcement created, a thawing of the cold shoulder some libraries felt towards the publisher following the curtailing of ebook lending.

While other major publishers have been adopters of ebook lending on some scale, Potash's admiration was for a publisher to look at the very clear data on how lending actually supports authors and publishers, and make a strong decision to support it.

Still others, like Simon & Schuster, have skirted the issue by never making any of its ebooks available for lending.

According to Stross, however, the constant headlines and boycotts of libraries just might fuel the fires for smaller publishers as consumers turn to the many ebooks that independent authors and smaller houses are happily making available for ebook lending catalogs.

This made big news on the internet and behind closed doors many other ebook lending companies were shaking in their boots.

The key selling points of the Sony DRM are; to make eBook rentals viable, to lend an eBook to a friend easier, to define a clear path of ownership, better pay per chapter (metered) support and the ability to resell a book.

These include best sellers with world famous narrators lending their voice to make the ebooks come alive.

More and more public and school libraries also facilitate the lending of eBooks, which makes them accessible for little or no cost.

Random House has countered this claim saying, «Our publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.»

Applebaum said that the publishing house, which is the only one of the Big Six to make its ebooks available without restriction for library lending, is setting the library ebook price with «far less definitive, encompassing circulation data» than the sell - through information used to determine retail pricing.

Additionally, ebooks deemed of especially high value by the Library Journal team are made available to subscribing libraries in periodically released collections available for the entire national library system to consider lending.

OverDrive, the powerhouse that makes ebook and audio download books possible to over 15,000 public and school libraries, released some surprising numbers on the use of ebook lending enabled libraries.

Because Barnes & Noble has assured us that they are working to reverse the changes, which affect individuals well beyond the eBookFling community who want to lend and share ebooks, we have not made changes to our system that would require users to reveal the email addresses they use for bn.com publicly.

The early predictions for almost every facet of digital publishing have proven to be as beneficial as once believed, especially in the areas of digital textbooks, widespread access to self - publishing possibilities, and even the gains made in ebook library lending.

Now that Penguin is running ebook trials with two new library distributors — Baker & Taylor and 3M — the publisher has decided it is safe to make new ebooks available for lending again, the AP reported Wednesday.

For indie authors and publishers who can agree to Amazon's list of demands, notably making their works available exclusively through Amazon for a set period of time and allowing their works to be loaned through the Kindle lending library, there is a fund of $ 6 million, divided into monthly amounts, allocated to pay authors as ebooks are borrowed.

The PA's position statement, delivered by Faber & Faber CEO Stephen Page, instead erred in presenting an easily countered red herring — the apparent inability of libraries to manage geographical lending restrictions — to justify the restriction that free ebook downloads by patrons must be made from within the library building.

Recorded Books is separately working on its own library ebook lending program, which will allow publishers a great deal of flexibility in how they make their ebooks available to libraries.

Responding to a question about why some publishers don't make ebooks available to libraries, Jeremy Greenfield, editorial director of Digital Book World, said they are worried that lending will result in reduced sales.

Consider using your author platform to promote your local library's eBook lending policy and make friends with your local library ahead of time.

To make real progress on this issue, you need hard data that shows ebook sales are helped, not harmed, by library ebook lending to mobile ebook reading devices.

(True, and I have made use of my library's ebook lending programs.)

For libraries searching for solutions that allow them to offer ebooks as part of their lending library, there are several ebook borrowing systems that have been developed to make digital lending management easier, including Baker & Taylor's Axis 360, the 3M Cloud Library, and OverDrive.

Throughout the course of the last year, ALA leaders met with Big Six publishers (which includes Penguin) to discuss library ebook lending and to make the case why library lending is beneficial for publishers and society.

In return KDP Select pays higher royalties for sales in certain countries, adds your ebook to the lending library for Prime Members, and gives you promotional options to make your ebook free for up to five days or discounted for up to seven.

By contrast, DRM locks — and related restrictions on things like lending or moving ebooks to a different platform — make the whole process of buying ebooks so complicated and unfriendly that many book lovers don't even bother doing it in the first place.

The other problem is the mess that public libraries have to put up with when they start making ebooks available for lending.

I'm happy to report that all of the Big Five publishers have made their titles available for library lending in eBook format.

And the good Laura Hazard Owen in Big - 5 publisher Macmillan makes many more ebooks available to libraries at GigaOM did us the favor of a quick wrap on where the other major US publishers now stand on library ebook lending:

Getting rid of DRM would allow libraries to invest more in ebooks as it would make cross platform lending possible.

First, five of the Big Six publishers do not make eBooks available for lending by libraries without restrictions, and the only one that does, Random House, charges libraries three times more for eBooks than it does for print books.

The ebook versions are «licensed», not sold, and the licence says you agree not to give away or lend «your» copy to anyone else, nor to make and redistribute more copies.