Sentences with phrase «of ebook lending»

One of the areas that hasn't received as much attention recently is the current state of ebook lending.

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.

The wait times and lack of selection have kept me from taking advantage of ebook lending at my library.

From the very beginning of digital lending through libraries and personal consumer shares, publishers have been wary of the implications of ebook lending.

Despite the fact libraries are seeing record usage because of ebook lending, people are still visiting the actual location.

In most corners of the world this same conceptual paradigm has been allowed to influence the mechanics of ebook lending.

Libraries win, even in the area of ebook lending, despite the challenges they face.

eBOUND President and CEO Robert Hayashi was recently interviewed for the Ottawa Citizen about the rise in popularity of ebook lending in public libraries.

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.

Steve Potash, CEO of OverDrive, was in attendance at the Digital Book World conference this year and spent a few minutes with GoodEReader discussing the current state of ebook lending from public libraries.

A new entrant to the emerging realm of eBook lending services «Fling» has just opened for business and it allows eBooks that have the lending feature, such as the Barnes and Noble Nook «Lendme» feature and the Amazon equivalent.

The iriver Story HD is an ePub - compatible device, so in theory users will also be able to enjoy the full benefits of ebook lending from their local libraries, something that Kindle users are still waiting for and hope will happen in the near future thanks to OverDrive's recent announcement.

As public libraries tried to shift their operation models to meet more people's needs and began installing computer labs, television viewing areas, audiobook listening rooms, and more, as well as spending their time and battling the issue of ebook lending, Coates explained that the money for actual borrowable books began to dwindle away.

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ebrary is currently working with academic libraries in Germany, but the popularity of ebook lending in the current climate of VAT can easily spark the crossover to public libraries.

They like to tout that Overdrive CEO Steve Potash testified at the House of Commons in favor of eBook lending in October 2012.

The summer initiative worked well for the libraries, with about 70 % of UK libraries offering some form of ebook lending, even if the catalog of titles is sadly... [Read more...]

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.

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eBook Fling is one of the new kids on the block in terms of eBook lending sites.

Anna De Souza had this to say about her company's position on what transpired and how it might effect the future of the ebook lending model.

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.

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.

When library patrons think of ebook lending, they might be familiar with the powers behind the books, with names like OverDrive or 3M distributing content to their local libraries.

This experiment provided what many supporters of ebook lending have known: readers like to borrow ebooks and they often purchase a borrowed title or its sequel after checking out the ebook from their local libraries.

While many US libraries require proof of immediate residency to use their library, eliminating the benefits of ebook lending altogether, would - be patrons have actually traveled to the nearest library in order to sign up for library cards and take advantage of ebook availability, which has proven good for local businesses as these new patrons shop and dine in the region while they're there.

While the book event will showcase so much that US publishing has to offer to a global community of readers, OverDrive, one of the world's leading digital content providers to schools and libraries, will demonstrate the power of ebook lending to the thousands of festival attendees.

A number of consumers — both surprised and not - so - surprised — opened tablets or dedicated e-readers yesterday, and a large percentage of those customers went to work straight away with testing out the capabilities of ebook lending from their local public libraries.

The Libraries All Party Parliamentary Group held an ebook summit in London today, and one of the announcements from the event was that the group, joined by OverDrive's CEO Steve Potash, addressed the British House of Commons on the importance and the data of ebook lending.

Overdrive is the company responsible for the facilitation of ebook lending from your local libraries in digital format.

ALA will meet face - to - face with CEOs and executives from Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Penguin Group, three publishers who are currently preventing their titles from being part of eBook lending catalogs, although in Penguin's case the ban applies only to new releases published after November 2011.

If you doubt the future success of eBook lending clubs, e-readers or tablets, take a look at a recent report from IDC.

In order to garner more market share and appease its own users it is essential for Kobo to follow Amazon and Barnes and Noble's lead and implement its own version of ebook lending.

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

With this rapid growth of the ebook lending process comes some inherent problems as everyone rushes to get a piece of the action.

The 3M e-readers were also on hand, devices that are designed for public library patrons who do not already have a digital reading enabled device to enjoy the convenience of ebook lending.

That simple statement can actually be applied to a number of frustrating issues in digital publishing, including the snail's pace of ebook lending and digital textbooks.

Randall Stross gave the back story of the issues that have arisen between Big Six publishers and libraries with the advent of ebook lending in an article for the New York Times.

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.

One of the benefits to the subscriber libraries that comes from using a subscription model, at least at the onset of ebook lending, is it allows them to track patron usage, user interest, and overall lending data so that they can do a better job of applying their budgets to digital content.

Recently at Good e-Reader we wrote an excellent article on the ramifications of eBook lending affecting eBook piracy.

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.

We are quite happy with the rise of eBook lending sites, that help facilitate the love of reading from users who have never met each other before.

But if people are going to get into the regular practice of ebook lending, they will want to be able to lend or borrow as many books as possible, without regard to what price it was at when they acquired it.

The research by Pew also highlighted the poor awareness of eBook lending services among its members, with 58 % of library members saying that they didn't know if the library had eBook lending.

The tablets and smart phones have also played a considerable role in the proliferation of eBook lending.

Swedish startup Atingo, a collaboration between Publit and Axiell, offers a platform for real - time negotiation of ebook lending rights between libraries and publishers.