Sentences with phrase «other ebook lending»

While I understand Amazon's concerns with other ebook lending programs, I think KU must be having as drastic of an impact on their sales revenues as it is on many authors.

The new website offers some innovative features not found in many of the other ebook lending sites.

This made big news on the internet and behind closed doors many other ebook lending companies were shaking in their boots.

Not exact matches

Most will not be able to afford a serious ebook lending programme without painful cuts to other services.

It is not only a tagline to add separation between Overdrive and other companies facilitating digital ebook lending through libraries, but a movement.

Penguin made waves in the eBook industry when it pulled out of Overdrive and all of the other services that facilitated the lending of eBooks via your local library.

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.

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, whose ebook borrowing app continues to be the top - rated large - scale lending app by iOS and Android users, has enjoyed a fairly solid run as not only a content provider to academic and public libraries, but also in other ways.

ETA: In breaking news, Amazon just added the ability to lend ebooks to other Kindle owners or Kindle reading app users.

From the fight that libraries are still facing over ebook lending to the snail's pace of digital textbook adoption, as well as the realization from booksellers that they will have to do something to accommodate ebooks if they plan to keep their doors open with big box and online bookstores breathing down their necks, it often feels like the industry as a whole would like to look the other way and let digital reading burn itself out.

Overdrive does have a number of major companies still supporting ebook lending such as; Random House, HarperCollins, John Wiley, Harlequin Romance, Kensington, Perseus, Sourcebooks, Scholastic, Chronicle, among others, and hundreds of their best - selling authors strongly support and are partnering with OverDrive to build stronger connections to library eBook reaebook lending such as; Random House, HarperCollins, John Wiley, Harlequin Romance, Kensington, Perseus, Sourcebooks, Scholastic, Chronicle, among others, and hundreds of their best - selling authors strongly support and are partnering with OverDrive to build stronger connections to library eBook reaeBook readers.

This common situation gave rise to eBook lending websites such as Lendle, LendingeBook, eBook Fling and many others.

Smashwords, who sells author content as well as distributes that content to major retailers of authors» choice, gives authors the option to sell their ebooks through Smashwords at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Apple, Flipkart, and a few other retailers, as well as to distribute their work for lending to OverDrive, Oyster, and Scribd.

Tempelis spoke on the recent collaboration between digital media collection OverDrive and Sourcebooks, a project which sought to provide definitive numbers to the industry about how ebook lending impacts future sales of the title and of the author's and publisher's other books.

In the same survey, 38 % of students from other countries did not know that their local libraries loaned ebooks, compared with only six percent in the UK, lending a lot of weight to Sayar's assessment that UK students just may be more familiar with where and how to access digital titles.

An example of a grassroots sharing service is ebooklendinglibrary forum where members can swap books using EBDs (ebook lending dollars) that are earned by lending books, writing reviews and other activities.

Amazon also has a lending program that allows you borrow select books from other users or from eBook Club websites like Lendingebooks.com

Two other companies right now offer ebook lending programs such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

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.

Still others, like Simon & Schuster, have skirted the issue by never making any of its ebooks available for lending.

One thing that sets the Barnes and Noble Nook apart from other ebook readers is the ability to lend purchased ebooks to friends owning a device (computer, phone, iPod, Nook) with B&N's software installed.

Watson and his team loaded these tablets with ebooks and other library resources and lent them to patrons as a substitute library.

Her video has already drawn some interesting comments — and started a discussion about other issues in Overdrive's program for lending Kindle ebooks.

Borrowers» email addresses are provided to lenders for no other purpose than to facilitate an ebook loan through Amazon's Kindle book lending feature.

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.

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There are a number of highly competitive websites out there that compete with each other to provide a mostly free service to borrow and lend out ebooks.

While romance novels tend to be on the «quick and easy» thin side of book length, other genres with titles like the Game of Thrones series or the Harry Potter books lend themselves to more wordiness and are therefore catching up to romance in terms of ebook sales thanks to Baddeley's theory.

If the person purchases the eBook, they can lend it to others.

Other publishers also place restrictions on ebook library lending.

Weaknesses — No SD Card slot, no wireless, no good ebook store to back it up, no reading apps for other platforms, no browser, terrible use of touch capability, no speakers, no text to speech feature, no lending.

On the other hand, having become quite used to borrowing ebooks from my public library I was upset to find the ubiquitous library lending app Overdrive not supported here.

The details of the deal aren't public, but the NYT specu - reports that Amazon probably «demanded that no other e-book vendors, such as Apple, get preferential access to new titles, or any kind of pricing advantages» and maybe asked for the ability of Kindle users to lend out ebooks, which would be awesome.

Whatever delightful innuendo B&N were hoping to facilitate by letting people lend ebooks to each other on their Nooks goes out the window.

The publisher response wasn't surprising because, while librarians often focus on publishers getting the highest possible price for their ebooks, publishers actually have a second goal which for many is even more important: How do we restrain ebook lending growth so that it doesn't undermine other channels.

Allow lending for this book: This allows readers to lend their eBook to other readers in the Kindle ecosystem for 14 days.

Kindle has taken ebook marketing to its best with various strategies like free samples, lending library and other kinds of promotions.

But DRM can also be used to restrict the number and type of devices that a person can use to read an ebook, how many times a person can lend an ebook to others, and even how much of an ebook a person can highlight.

The other librarians were not in agreement with Marx's suggestion that libraries should consider introducing more «friction» into the lending of ebooks to address publishers» fears that library lending will destroy the nascent consumer market for ebooks.

The other problem is the mess that public libraries have to put up with when they start making ebooks available for lending.

The most borrowed eBooks and Audiobooks from libraries list is based on data from 34,000 libraries and schools worldwide that lend eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media via the OverDrive platform.

If I buy an eBook from Amazon and many others I can read it, I can't lend it without permission and its highly restrictive when you can, I can't even let my family members read it unless their kindle / iPad is on the same account.

Small libraries on tight budgets unable to afford steep annual subscriptions to other lending services have the opportunity to bring ebooks to their patrons without over-extending their resources.

Other major specifics were left out of the announcement: the length of the lending period, which publishers will participate in the program, and if there will be any limit to the number of times a Kindle ebook can be checked out.

If they are worried about lending beyond territories that publishers have contracts for, then some other method could easily have been found rather than to take away one of the most impressive features of ebooks from libraries.

And the good Laura Hazard Owen in Big - 5 publisher Macmillan makes many more ebooks available to libraries at GigaOM did us the favor of a quick wrap on where the other major US publishers now stand on library ebook lending:

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book - and publishing - related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News European Publishers «Shocked» at EU E-Book Lending Ruling (Publishers Weekly) The ruling appears to allow unlimited lending of ebooks by libraries.

With the recent release of the Barnes and Noble Nook, lending ebooks to other devices has become a new feature.

Also, you may not be able to use the Amazon Instant Video app, and the Kindle app from the Kindle Fire which supports Amazon's eBook lending library, personal documents, and other advanced features doesn't work.