Sentences with phrase «means lending every book»

I'd be happy with a system that let me transfer my purchases rather than sharing them - I don't expect my one download of a copy of the new Jonathan Frantzen to provide for the reading needs of my entire extended family at the same time, but lending my Kindle - or in this case my iPad - means lending every book (and every other app), which is not the same as just lending one book.

Not exact matches

Some of these are bound to work better than others (The Book of Exodus doesn't really lend itself to the sort of story Scott clearly wanted to tell), but the lesson to audiences is clear: Just because a movie is about the Bible doesn't mean you can know what to expect when you sit down to watch it.

And the shape really lends itself to transitional dressing, not having to wear a heavy boot means you are not just lighter on your feet, but more keen to embrace other lighter options too — like reading a book on a tablet instead of paperback, or a breezy knee - length skirt to float into spring...

Just because the books are digital does not mean libraries have unlimited copies to lend out, though.

But if I wanted to borrow, I'd have to lend, and that means I'd be lending some of your books.

All the other services offered by B&N are offered in this device too: the lovely book lending and sharing apps, for instance, and of course the standard features like highlighting, adding notes and looking up meanings on Webster's.

That means e-books can now emulate the social exchange of printed books, while avoiding the big pitfall of book - lending: the risk that you won't get your book back.

Consumers still prefer to buy real books (I mean, if the price is almost the same or even cheaper, why buy an ebook, with all the restrictions about lending it for instance?).

«Using the Amazon Swindle makes you stop lending books to your friends — which means you're not their friend any more.»

We outline what lending books actually means and how authors opt into the program, sometimes without knowing all the facts.

Now, both Kindle and Nook have a lending feature that's a mockery of what lending means to books.

There's a lot to discuss about the announcement, including concerns about patron privacy, Amazon's DRM policies, and whether and how this will benefit libraries in the long run (in the short run, it at least means that librarians don't have to answer the question of why they can't lend books to patrons» Kindles).

That means that, once you lawfully purchase or acquire a printed book, you can then lend or re-sell it as you see fit.

Of course, to be reasonable, lending or selling a physical book means you lose access to it, and the same is not true of a digital file (which you can keep and email to a friend), so perhaps it's not fair for the same rules to apply.

Making books available for library lending is an obligation which comes with the rights granted under copyright law, and is limited in very important ways which mean that it has relatively little effect on authors» earning power, and for the vast majority of them it makes up a very small proportion of their total income, so the zero - sum effect doesn't really kick in.

When you download an ebook, you're licensing the content, meaning that unless a publisher specifically allows for it, lending is not possible for books.

I've also heard that Amazon is counting KU lends as sales when they compute sales rankings, which means people who didn't actually «sell» their books are getting into the top 100 sales lists, which helps increase visibility and generates more sales and lends.

«The abiding appeal of art,» he announces in the Renoir book, «springs from the presence in it of the characteristics which lend interest and poignancy to life itself: movement, contrast, rhythm, symmetry, coherence of parts, unity of form and meaning, and individuality of purpose.»