The number of ebooks available for libraries to loan has just shrunk as Penguin Group USA has decided, for now, to no longer make digital editions of new titles available for library lending.
If you'd like to find out the exact
number of ebooks available where you live, here's the quickest way to do it:
There are an enormous
number of ebooks available for less than # 2.00 these days.
It is likely that there are going to be increasing
numbers of eBooks available over the next few years, so the question then becomes: how do libraries best manage eBooks for mobile devices?
Not exact matches
Yesterday OverDrive announced that they have resolved a technical issue with their library
ebook lending service that had caused a
number of Kindle - formatted
ebooks not to appear
available for lending.
Online (and sometimes downloadable) PDF
eBooks are
available from a
number of different library services (for example, netLibrary, ebrary, Ingram MyiLibrary, Dawson, Blackwell).
Macmillan and Overdrive announced a new
ebook pilot program last month that will see a
number of titles from their Minotaur imprint become
available to libraries.
According to Library Journal's «2013 Report on E-Books in Public Libraries», where 89 %
of US public libraries offer
eBooks, collection size and circulation have increased: 45 % increase in median
number of e-books between 2012 (5,080) and 2013 (7,380) 145 % circulation increase from 2011 to 2012 (with anticipated 2013 increase
of +38.9 %) These
numbers reflect all points
of access, including those directly licensed or purchased by an individual library and those
available through a consortium.
There are a
number of eBook subscription services
available, and understanding the benefits and costs
of each may help you determine where to align your
eBooks.
The
number one thing that irritates me about the whole thing is how Amazon deceptively highlights the $ 0.00 price for Kindle
ebooks that are
available as part
of their Kindle Unlimited subscription plan.
Again in their FAQ, they state: «Ultimately, by opening up the
ebook licensing restrictions that publishers currently impose, we'll be able to make
ebooks available to an expanded
number of markets.
Perhaps you're quite happy using one
of any
number of free and open source
ebook creation tools
available.
As always special coupons will be
available, or discounts on great
numbers of commercial
eBooks for World
eBook Fair visitors for the period July 4 through August 4.
«As you may be aware, there has been a significant amount
of negative media attention in the UK regarding offensive material that became
available across a
number of eBook platforms.
In many cases, the content the riidr makes
available is the same
ebook that a North American customer might purchase from any
number of branded retailers, like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or Kobo, but in the case
of the Danish translation
of those works, for example, the publisher who owns those foreign rights can sell the
ebooks directly to the consumers.
There are a
number of eBook subscription services
available, and understanding the benefits and costs
of -LSB-...]
Ebook projects like Project Gutenberg transcribe
ebooks and make them
available for the widest
number of reading devices.
A
number of my short stories have been collected in a book, Spirits Abroad, which is
available both in print and as an enhanced
ebook with additional content.
Amazon, who manufacture the Kindle reader, say that the retail website has sold 114
ebooks for every 100 printed books, and that this
number includes the sales
of harcover and paperback books where no Kindle edition is
available.
Catalog
numbers weren't
available as
of press time, but Spring Design claims that Borders will offer hundreds
of thousands
of eBooks.
The great thing about getting your
eBooks ready for smartphone use is the
number of apps
available that make it very easy for your readers to access and enjoy your work, even if they don't have a dedicated e-reader device.
But with online print and
ebook sales, a book might never go out
of print under the «not
available for sale» definition, and online sales — no matter how limited — can keep the book active under the «x
number of sales per royalty period» definition.
It would be a boon for local residents who can enjoy access to wider selection
of ebooks and a greater
number of copies
available at any given time.
Aside from the massive leap in
available technology that makes these
numbers possible, more
ebooks are coming to market thanks to the publishing industry's veritable embracing
of the format.
Amazon's headline
number of 850,000 titles in its Kindle
eBook store truly represents the
number of contemporary
ebooks available.
By showing to the readers the huge discrepancy between the
number of titles
available on Amazon and at their library, by showing that we indies would like to offer our
ebooks to the librarians.
No figures are
available for the
number of ebooks issued by traditional publishers in the US.
The
number one thing that irritates me about the whole thing is how Amazon deceptively highlights the $ 0.00 price for Kindle
ebooks that are
available as part
of their -LSB-...]
«Examining the proportion
of the Booker backlist digitized prior to 1940, Bilbary found that the
number falls to 11 per cent, with only one title from the first Man Booker winner, P.H. Newby's archive
available as an
ebook.
Several hundred
ebook titles from the LexisNexis collection are
available for purchase in the Kindle Store, featuring a
number of categories within the non-fiction department under «Law.»
It would be useful to understand the
number of devices and the
number ebooks available during the various epochs.
Just think
of how much higher that
number could be if iBooks were
available on other platforms, and if Apple offered a dedicated
ebook reader equivalent to the Kindle.
As I've posted about in the past, there are a
number of Kindle - related benefits
available for Amazon Prime members, like getting free
ebooks with Prime Reading and Kindle First.
In my case (and many others), the
number of ebooks borrowed by Amazon Prime members dwarfs the
number of sales those same
ebooks had when they were
available on all
of the other sales channels combined.
It stands for Amazon Standard Identification
Number and it is assigned to all types
of products that are
available on Amazon, not just books and Kindle
eBooks.
My book is setup with Ingram, but not to be released for a
number of months and I've already found it
available for presale with Kobo and Bertand, Kobo and another one or two places, but I'm thinking
of pulling it back and using the KDP Select option, but I would have to pull it off
of all other
ebook providers.
It's never easy to pick up the right
eBook solution provider from the
number of options
available online.
Your
ebook is
available for Amazon Prime members to borrow your book for free, and you receive payment on
number of pages read.
Penguin announced in March that it would begin making new
ebooks available to libraries again, a year after it had pulled them, though it is still only working with a limited
number of libraries in a pilot program.
Do It Yourself: There are a
number of free user guides
available online that help you convert your print books to
ebooks, but you will have to manually format them once the basic conversion is done.
It would be useful if similar information were
available sorted by
Number Of Titles Sold in print and
ebooks.
Not all
of Amazon's Kindle
ebooks are
available through Kindle Unlimited, but the
number of available titles has risen since the list leaked a couple
of days ago.
There is a growing
number of sites that offer nothing more than
ebooks that are free to download, and
available in many
ebook formats, including mobi and epub.
Oyster, which launched in 2013 and is
available for iOS and Android (and Kindle Fire), is $ 9.95 a month and includes access to over 500,000
ebooks, while Scribd is
available on a
number of platforms (including iOS and Android and Kindle Fire) and includes access to over 400,000
ebooks for $ 8.99 a month.
Macmillan ups the
number of backlist
eBooks available for lending to ~ 11,000.
While it is true that the
number of available ebooks with sales continues to decline — from a high
of 88 % in 2014 to just 54 % in 2016 — some
of this might be due to the growing
number of digitized backlist titles.
Unglue.it is an attempt to pick up where Project Gutenberg left off, expanding the
number of older books that libraries can make
available as
eBooks.
There are also gazillions
of free
ebooks that are
available from a
number of websites in a variety
of formats that will work on any device or software.
The glut
of high - quality low - cost
ebooks will get worse - In the old days
of print publishing, the
number of books in circulation was artificially constrained by the production output
of traditional publishers, and by the shelf space
available at brick and mortar retailers.
The difference lies in the
number of apps and
eBooks available for each tablet.