Sentences with phrase «on ebook lending»

This was an excellent service for those of us keeping our eye on eBook lending for public libraries.

All of the Big Six publishers are now working with libraries on ebook lending in some capacity, but pricing and licensing terms remain unfavorable in many cases, Saturday's «ALA, Ebooks, and Digital Content: What's Next?»

It has been a busy year for Penguin on the ebook lending front.

In Europe, there's a new court ruling on ebook lending and publishers aren't sure they like it.

David, quite a few libraries here are working on ebook lending plans.

By recognizing ebooks not as a commodity that can be bought, sold, and consumed, but rather as a service item with pricing structures to go along with it, Atingo feels they have brought a whole new perspective on ebook lending, one that can and should work around the world.

Finally, LaRue freely admits that this disclosure of the pricing is a necessary step towards getting the publishers to at least work with libraries on ebook lending.

For the first time, all the largest publishers are engaged on ebook lending with libraries.

But at the American Library Association annual conference (ALA 2011) this week, HarperCollins was a willing participant in open discussions with the ALA task force business meeting and will even be contributing a publisher's perspective on the ALA task force's FAQ site on ebook lending and licensing.

ALA TechSource has a nice post on ebook lending clubs and lists some more book loaning clubs: http://BooksForMyKindle.com & http://BooksForNooks.com And I've run across this additional one as well: http://Lendle.me

Publishers have imposed boycotts on ebook lending, issued impossible pricing strategies for digital content, and even removed titles from the lending catalogs, all of which have all left libraries at odds with the publishers as they struggle to provide quality reading content for their patrons.

With the abundance of self - publishing opportunities available to authors now, and even opportunities like library distribution thanks to this morning's announcement that Smashwords and OverDrive are pairing up on ebook lending, the real stand out will be in the ways that companies can offer book promotion to their clients.

Due to the importance of the topic at hand, namely, reforming the way publishers and libraries work together on ebook lending, Coates has made his notes available to the media in order to understand the sweeping calls he is making for both sides.

Not exact matches

By demonstrating how ebook lending can work through this site, he hopes that publishers and libraries can put to rest some of the concerns that both sides have on the issue.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington,... [Read more...]

Random House, whose price increase on digital versions of its titles for library lending, reiterated what can be great news for libraries, mainly that when a library purchases an ebook for lending to its patrons, that book is the property of the library.

Of course, the fact that a few smaller publishers have come on board and the nomination for a publishing industry innovation award lends a lot of credibility to the concept behind Rook, the free ebook reading app that lets... [Read more...]

Library lending of ebooks and other digital content is finally gaining a foothold in the industry as publishers and lending institutions come to some measure of agreement on how to make it work.

The essence of the pilot is to carry out real - time, real - world research into the impact of eBook lending in public libraries on authors, publishers and on the library service so that a suitable and sustainable model.

Just when it seems that libraries and publishers are finally coming to terms on how to make ebook lending feasible, another blow is struck to the libraries and patrons.

Cross words were exchanged when each entity sent the other its scathing stance on the state of ebook lending, but that didn't prevent the American Library Association and the Association of American Publishers from going forward with a planned meeting to discuss the issue.

Overdrive is proclaiming that the demand for eBook lending had no negative impact on publishers», authors» and booksellers» businesses.

While their methods will vary on how they choose to improve ebook lending of their titles, only Simon & Schuster remains the only major US publisher that is not releasing its ebook titles for public library lending in any way.

Overdrive intends on releasing a massive amount of metrics based on all of the schools and libraries that use their service for the facilitation of ebook and audiobook lending.

Currently, public libraries are struggling with trying to implement digital lending, as five of the Big Six publishers are not yet fully on board with allowing libraries to include their titles in ebook lending programs.

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.

eSentral commenced a pioneering project with Sabah State Library to serve ebooks for remote lending focusing on local ebooks.

There's a more expanded report on the ramifications of these eBook lending programs in the January issue of Infinity's Author's Advocate — if you aren't a subscriber, you may sign up for a free subscription by visiting www.infinitypublishing.com.

The Kobo Aura ONE features a 7.8 inch HD Carta E Ink touchscreen; 8 GB of on - board memory to hold up to 6,000 eBooks; ComfortLight PRO technology to reduce blue - light exposure and protect eyes for the best nighttime reading experience; built - in, one - touch OverDrive library lending access; and waterproof HZO Protection ™.

At the conclusion of the 14 - days, the lent eBook is back on the purchaser's bookshelf and fully accessible again.

It was a little clunky at first to do library lending because the libraries were a little sketchy on their educational programs, but since then I've seen library websites with much easier info on how to download ebooks.

Library systems across the country are now lending eBooks in addition to physical ones, and you can read many of them on your Nook as well as any of Sony's new eReaders and Kobo's device.

Chatfield goes on to suggest that selling books DRM free, without the use restrictions that most eBooks presently have, opens up «the tantalizing possibility of helping digital reading preserve all the advantages of its weightless, infinitely capacious medium while regaining some of the rich possibilities of physical books — and specifically those communities of lending, discussion, sharing and recommendation that are the traditional lifeblood of reading.»

Although most of the focus is on OverDrive, because that's the way most public libraries get their ebook content and deliver it to patrons, a Penguin statement refers to all library lending, not just OverDrive — and not just the Kindle Lending Library, either.

The company is citing «security concerns ``, much in the same way that Harper Collins cited the «need to protect their authors» when they imposed the 26 - circulation cap on library ebook lending back in February 2011.

Furthermore, publishers can set the price on ebook sales, as well as charge a «lending fee» and determine the number of days that the book is in the user's hands.

Publishers have gone so far as to limit the amount of times an ebook can be borrowed, set restrictions on a waiting period between patrons, and have even decided to forgo ebook lending altogether.

National advocacy on library eBook lending is one of ALA's major policy initiatives and success stories during the past two years.

This emphasis on maintaining libraries comes alongside the introduction of digital lending provided by companies like OverDrive, Pressreader, and Zinio, which allow patrons to access ebooks, digital newspapers, and digital magazines without having to physically enter the library.

Currently, a large number of publishers have prevented or pulled their titles from eBook lending catalogs, the platforms that enable public library patrons to borrow digital editions of books on their own reading - enabled devices.

Test Drive Approved device requirements include compatibility with the library's eBook catalog, direct Wi - Fi checkout and eBook download via an on - board browser or app, and copyright protection (DRM) and lending practices that conform to rules as required by publisher permissions.

Simon and Schuster has expanded on a 20 library pilot project and has rolled out a Nationwide eBook lending plan.

For its part, the government body overseeing the issue has agreed that authors need to be fairly compensated through ebook lending, but also that every possible step must be taken to ensure that ebook lending by both remote and on - site patrons remains a free service to society.

When the Big Six publishers pulled their ebooks from Amazon's lending program, Amazon fired back with a maneuver of its own, namely, to invite the self - published authors to put their books in the lending library on the condition that it be available nowhere else, even as a free blog post.

Penguin Group, which announced last year that any books published after November 14 would not be available for ebook lending from libraries — and initially had said those ebooks would not be available for Kindle, but has since backed down from that statement — has now decided to pull its audiobook downloads from library catalogs for books published on or after that same date.

OverDrive, one of the nation's leading ebook lending platforms that supplies the ebook titles to school and public libraries that offer digital lending services, will once again be bringing its tractor - trailer bookmobile on the road, this time attending this weekend's National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

There are lots of questions on how ebook lending services work.

McGraw - Hill Professional is offering more than 4,500 new and backlist eBooks, available to lend on multiple devices.

«Public libraries utilizing OverDrive's Next Generation digital lending platform served a record number of eBook, audiobook, music and video titles to patrons on Christmas Day.

Firstly, give people a legitimate and reasonably priced way of buying ebooks, lending ebooks, moving ebooks from one ereader to another, and so on, and the vast majority of readers won't pirate ebooks.