Sentences with phrase «new library lending service»

Amazon also is planning a new library lending service soon that will allow you to borrow books from a public library.

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The essence of this new service is providing a digital content distribution system for libraries and hardware to facilitate the lending process.

In the last couple of weeks, we've seen New Zealand public libraries announcing plans for the imminent launch of ebook lending services.

3M will soon be unleashing a new Cloud based ebook lending service for libraries to compete with Overdrive.

Penguin stopped offering new titles and withheld Kindle access to all titles, out of unspecified security concerns with OverDrive (the service that powers most U.S. e-book library lending) and Amazon.

As PaidContent has noted, this leaves just two of the larger publishers participating in the service — HarperCollins (s nws) and Random House — and one of those (HarperCollins) puts significant restrictions on its books, including a requirement that libraries must buy a new copy if they lend an e-book more than 25 times.

According to Library Journal, Budler refused to renew the libraries» contract with OverDrive when the distribution service attempted not only to significantly raise fees, but also to rewrite the terms of the contract in such a way that would prevent the libraries from ever transferring their holdings to a different provider.20 The State Library of Kansas then decided to transfer the libraries» existing digital content to a new e-book lending service from technology company 3M, although Budler said that they first had to secure individual publishers» permission to transfer the titles.