The new agreement with the book publisher will eventually offer its full
catalog of ebooks available for the first time on Apple's iBookstore in the UK.
There is also a copious amount
of eBooks available including Australian best sellers and hundreds of thousands of titles that are exclusive to Kindle.
There are two types
of eBooks available through Substance B: EPUB and MOBI that can be used on a wide range of devices based on your personal preferences including PC, Mac, Linux, Android Tablets / Smartphones, e-ink readers, iPad, and iPhone.
Following on from my post about book pricing in the UK and the related news item on RegisterHardware, I thought I'd outline where things stand with regard to the different
types of eBook available in the UK, as it's fairly important information if you're thinking of investing in a reader.
Warning: I've heard
many of the ebooks available at Barnes and Noble's new ebook store for the Nook are using a format called «EPUB» that won't work with anything other than a Nook.
Last week, GoodeReader profiled the book discovery website Libboo, a location that allows both readers and authors to find new and intriguing titles without wading through the millions
of ebooks available from retailers» platforms.
The thrust of what she had to say was that there was no planned date at this stage for Amazon to launch its Kindle into the UK market and before it would do so, it needed to see a critical
mass of ebooks available.
The decision on Tuesday by Tom Doherty Associates, publishers of Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen imprints, to make its entire list
of ebooks available DRM - free by early July 2012, caused a tremendous amount of discussion in publishing circles with little reference to the library market.
Pressbooks Public is being described as «a new indie author composition» service, which will effectively create a seamless channel for an author's
creation of an ebook available for distribution not only to regular commercial channels but also to US library collections.
The reason there aren't infinite
copies of an ebook available through your library is that they have licenced 1 or more copies, and paid for those copies.
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?
Tim McCall, Penguin's Vice President of Online Sales and Marketing, said, «Penguin is looking forward to making our
catalog of ebooks available to Follett and to its school library customers.»
Kobo will continue to serve Borders customers — in this time of transition as well as moving forward — to provide the ultimate eReading experience and one of the widest
selection of eBooks available to the eReading community worldwide.»
Once the realm of primitive low - resolution screens, short battery lives, and specialty online stores with limited offerings, the online world is now the hub of
millions of eBooks available for sale in dozens of different online bookstores.
The distribution deal with Scribd could triple the number
of ebooks available on Scribd's catalogue to over 325,000.
It's also notable that the 600,000 book titles represents a fraction of the millions
of the ebooks available in Amazon's digital library.
There are millions
of ebooks available for download from the Kindle Store and more than 200,000 audiobooks from Audible.
Tim McCall, Vice President of Online Sales and Marketing at Penguin, said, «Penguin is looking forward to making our catalog
of ebooks available to Follett and to its school library customers.»
Unlike some of the restrictions put on ebook lending, Macmillan has made
all of its ebooks available without circulation limits, but still under a very standard one - book - one - user model, meaning schools who wish to stock more than one copy — just as they must do with print editions — must purchase additional licenses.
Amazon is now a formidable content provider, with one of the largest selections
of ebooks available, a growing — if still lagging behind iOS and Google Play — app store and magazines.
This has the potential to get the widest range
of ebooks available to libraries» patrons and to help libraries to provide a high quality ebook service without the money having to come from other needed services.