Many libraries servicing large metropolitan areas (like the Cleveland library network) already
offer ebook borrowing.
Not exact matches
Another tech titan that has
borrowed this pricing logic is Amazon, which
offers many 99 - cent
ebooks for its Kindle reader.
Overdrive was the first company to
offer all seven of the Harry Potter
ebooks for library patrons to
borrow digitally.
This new
offering has a Buy It Now feature which allows patrons to click to purchase a book that they have enjoyed reading on a handheld device, a feature that encourages the already high number of book sales that occur after an
ebook has been
borrowed.
Ebook borrowing in public librairies is very popular here, and librairies
offer nice and accessible platforms developped by DeMarque, a world leader in the industry.
Libraries need to adopt a broad strategy to
offer a digital lending service that allows anyone in the entire country to get a membership card and
borrow ebooks.
To be able to
borrow ebooks, you will first need to register with one of the 12 partner libraries
offering the
ebooks.lu service.
Kindle Select
offers the many thousands of Amazon Prime member - customers the ability to «
borrow,» free of charge, one
ebook per month from a «Select» library of many thousands of self - published
ebook titles.
The caveat for self - published authors that they must
offer their
ebook exclusively on Amazon for 90 days after joining the program, but once they do, they'll get a percentage of the fund based on how often their book is
borrowed.
For libraries searching for solutions that allow them to
offer ebooks as part of their lending library, there are several
ebook borrowing systems that have been developed to make digital lending management easier, including Baker & Taylor's Axis 360, the 3M Cloud Library, and OverDrive.
It might seem counter-intuitive to the indie author desperate for sales to
offer an
eBook as a free read, but the exposure you can get from having your
eBook available for
borrowing in a library is immense.
Hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service
offered by RTDL that allows you to
borrow movies, music, audiobooks,
ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone — and even your TV!
The number of libraries in the UK
offering eBooks is still limited, and the management of digital copies is still hilariously archaic, but that the ability to «
borrow» digital copies of books for free is there at all goes a massive way to compensating for the frankly abysmal options for purchasing
eBooks for a Sony Reader.
Baker & Taylor loves libraries and readers, and we
offer this app so book lovers who
borrow ebooks from their library can easily read them on their Android device.
Similarly priced and with similar specifications, the Glo HD provides a reasonably affordable gateway to Kobo's online
offerings, including access to their respectably sized
ebook store, the ability to
borrow library books through OverDrive, and online content through the use of a Pocket account.
Borrow and read an
ebook from your local library Have you ever tried to find out if your library
offers ebooks?
Ultimately I want to see libraries
offering a seamless, single signon experience for their users to
borrow ebooks online.