Sentences with phrase «of ebook checkouts»

Close in nature to concepts like Amazon Prime, in which members have a pre-determined number of ebook checkouts for one annual membership price, Freading allows libraries to allot patrons virtual tokens that are exchanged for borrowable titles, tokens that are bought with actual money by the library, as opposed to a flat subscription price for using the catalog.

Some of the popularity of ebook lending libraries that OverDrive has noted for the calendar year 2011 through September 30th include almost triple the number of ebook check - outs over all of 2010, more than two million new users signed up for this year, and a rise in smartphone reading to account for 21 % of all ebook checkouts.

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

eBook Lending Platforms — p. 22 by John Novak — For the purposes of this article, the definition of an eBook lending platform is one that contains eBooks from multiple publishers that patrons may browse and checkout.

In fact, 56 of their public library partners have surpassed 1 million digital checkouts (eBooks and audiobooks) year to date in 2017, with 7 more well on their way to meeting this milestone prior to year end (compared to 49 total in 2016).

3M Library Systems, creators of cloud - based ebook lending and a library - specific e-reader device for patron checkout, and OverDrive, the leading provider of ebooks,... [Read more...]

Overdrive and Penguin have announced residents of the US or Canada can now checkout eBooks from the library and have them sent directly to a Kindle, without the need of a USB.

This includes libraries that are disappointed with competitor eBook collections due to low checkouts and fewer features,» said Shannon Lichty, OverDrive's director of partner services.

And, putting the privacy issues aside for the moment, it could change the answer to the question of whether Kindles can be used to checkout ebooks from «no» to «yes, and with the fewest steps involved.»

So if folks out there are aware of other systems that allow interesting ebook checkouts, share those too!

If there's a book I want to read that I don't want to put down money for up front, I already have a way to address that: the Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, both of which are very friendly to ebook checkouts.

This decision comes despite the fact that checking out a downloadable eBook greatly mirrors a checkout of a print copy.

Some pubs will sell their ebooks but only for X number of checkouts.

Umstead's Ebook of the Week can be found by clicking here at Smashwords, and readers may enter this code to receive their free copy at checkout: HF87Y The author is also giving away several copies of the first book in series, Gabriel's Redemption, to new subscribers to his blog.

In April 2003, starting with a modest collection of popular materials, Cleveland Public Library opened the first OverDrive «virtual branch» and pioneered ebook checkout.

This type of interactive interface is especially important for libraries whose patrons are still adjusting to the option to checkout ebooks and MP3 audiobooks, a concept that is still new to so many library users.

This growth has resulted in an era when 95 % of public libraries offer ebook checkouts, and 66 % of school libraries offer digital circulation.

Based on activities of top circulating public libraries, eBook, audiobook and digital magazine checkouts are on track to grow 30 - 40 percent for 2016 over the record levels achieved for 2015.

With One - Step Checkout ™ and powerful, filtered search, the Next Generation library websites are optimized for both PC and mobile users, which helped pilot libraries circulate record single - day numbers of eBooks, audiobooks, music and video.

3M Library Systems, creators of cloud - based ebook lending and a library - specific e-reader device for patron checkout, and OverDrive, the leading provider of ebooks, audio books, and downloads to over 18,000 public libraries, may be competitors in the services they provide, but they are united in the fact that their work is intended to increase the capabilities of public libraries to provide ebook lending services to patrons.

Platforms like OverDrive, 3M, Smashwords, and Bilbary are working diligently to provide digital content for libraries until the publishers» concerns — namely pricing, number of patron checkouts per ebook purchase, and piracy — are addressed.

With the level of DRM necessary for the ebook, it will simply be removed from the device when the checkout period is over.

February — HarperCollins institutes 26 checkout loan cap and eBooks become the top selling category of all formats.

To receive your free ebook edition of The Killing of an Author, click HERE to view the author's page at XinXii.com and enter the following code at checkout: RCK12XD

The program, launched by N.C. Public Library Directors Association, provides nearly four thousand ebooks, audiobooks, and read - along titles for young students, with more than 300 of the titles available for simultaneous checkout.

Worldwide, readers checked out more than 34 million ebooks and audiobooks through OverDrive in the first half of 2012 — more than double the checkouts in all of 2011.

Meanwhile, Public Libraries in this country have mentioned that 3 % of all book checkouts are eBooks as well, which puts Canada near the very top of all modern countries adopting the new digital format.

Besides the drawback that publishers are still imposing checkout limits and raising the price of an ebook by as much as 300 % for libraries, the biggest obstacle may be instituting the lending program itself.

To receive your free ebook of Dead Weight, click HERE and enter the following code at checkout: DSD12XC

One of the biggest draws and selling points of Adobe DRM - supporting ereaders, especially the Sony Readers, is that you can checkout ebooks for free from your local library to read on them.

The key objection voiced about SELF - e is its business model: the service is free to independent authors who submit their ebooks but offers no royalty payments to those authors for checkouts of their ebooks.

I'd be interested in seeing an analysis author's payouts for KU vs the ebooks for libraries; my understanding is each ebook has a limited number of checkouts.

Simon and Schuster and Macmillan have been the most reluctant, while Harper Collins decided to impose a limit of 26 checkouts on its ebooks earlier this year.

OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), the leading eBook and audiobook platform for libraries and schools, announced today that circulation of eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media increased 33 % in 2014 to 137 million checkouts, while web traffic and discoverability similarly increased, especially on mobile devices.

The OverDrive integration will allow for the checkout of ebooks from within Millennium or Sierra without jumping to the OverDrive interface; the June rollout of Decision Center, the company's new data - driven collection management tool that will compete with collectionHQ's product; a wave of hiring backed by the new investors, which has already increased the staff by 20 so far this year and will add another 40 by the end of the year (mostly in development and support), according to Massana, pushing the company past 400 employees; the creation of five «library relations managers» who serve as customer advocates at III; the complete integration of SkyRiver Technology Solutions into III along with the termination of SkyRiver's suit against OCLC on March 4.

Below, you will find OverDrive's Top 10 Library Ebook and Audiobook Checkouts of All Time.

Toronto Public Library just topped a list of US and Canadian libraries in terms of digital checkouts, according to library ebook vendor OverDrive.

OverDrive powers the ebook procurement and checkout systems for 20,000 public libraries around the world, including 90 % of US public libraries.