Sentences with phrase «other ebook libraries»

Almost every couple owns assets in digital format, including their iTunes music library; Kindle / Nook / other ebook libraries; and digital TV shows, movies, and games.

They can read about it at Apple, Kindle, and other ebook libraries.

Not exact matches

In other words, book publishers and distributors are jockeying for position in the school library ebook market and there are no clear winners.

Ingram is a huge aggregator of books, ebooks, and other content for the retail market, and today I learned that they're entering the public library market as well.

At my library we are just getting started with ebooks — we get more paper books than ebooks, but our other resources (periodicals) are probably mostly online these days.

To add some bigger - picture perspective, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster have yet to offer libraries their books in the ebook format at all, and other publishers are continuing the longstanding policy of allowing libraries to purchase ebooks in perpetuity.

«Many challenges remain including high prices, privacy concerns, and other terms under which ebooks are offered to libraries.

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

It is time for other stakeholders in the e-book market to clearly acknowledge the important role of libraries in developing a reading culture which actively fosters the sale of books and eBooks».

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.

We have created a method for Libraries to loan eBooks to each other and are trying a year - long pilot with Springer to refine it: http://occamsreader.org

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.

I'm starting to build up a small library of ebooks from sources other than Kindle and Kobo in anticipation of this device.

In April, ALA President Maureen Sullivan will lead a library delegation to meet with Penguin and other publishers in New York City to discuss ways to make ebook titles more accessible for libraries.

Others will not even allow libraries to purchase their digital editions, with concerns over how the ebooks will be licensed to the libraries.

If you want to borrow ebooks or audiobooks from the public library or purchase digital content from other booksellers, the Touch HD 2 has Adobe DRM support.

Libraries that do business with Overdrive and Baker and Taylor both enjoy audiobooks, eBooks, and other multimedia content.

I like the Nook better than the Kindle (my deciding reason being that the Nook works with the library ebooks and Kindle doesn't), ergo that is what I bought, and all books should be available for Nook (and Sony and Kobo and the oodles of other readers half the world's never heard of) just the same as for Kindle.

The library is loaded with many marketing, romance, medical, and other free ebooks in pdf format.

We are dedicated to a «world enlightened by reading» by delivering the industry's largest catalog of eBooks, audiobooks and other digital media to a growing network of 38,000 libraries and schools in 70 countries.

With your Rhode Island public library card, you can download ebooks and audiobooks to computers, tablets, eReaders and other mobile devices for free!

Although most libraries offer eBooks that are compatible with computers, Sony Reader and a handful of other digital devices, many of their downloadable offerings can not be read on Amazon's Kindle or the Apple's iphone, both very popular e-readers.

In other words, the ebooks the libraries purchased last October.

A small break came in the impasse when other groups besides publishers and aggregators began making ebooks available to libraries, like authors, author groups, agents, booksellers, and smaller publishers.

Two years after «standing up» to Amazon by handing Apple instant market share in the ebook space, and jumping through hoops to supply every other harebrained ebook startup with shoddily formatted content, with nary a thought given to device interoperability nor optimal user experiences, and in the wake of the # 2 domestic book retailer finally going bankrupt, libraries have seemingly become the one kid on the playground publishers think they can bully into submission.

While there are other ways to get your books in the libraries (and remember, this is just ebooks, not hard copies), this one has that little something extra.

Only a small number of ebook vendors (actually, Springer is the only one I know of) allow for any sort of ILL, which means that the more our book collections go digital, the less we will be able to loan to other libraries or borrow from other libraries.

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.

Once borrowed from the library or school, children can read eBooks including the Big Nate and Friends series, Harry Potter series, Number the Stars, The Book Thief, The Chronicles of Narnia series, Wonder, Mary Poppins and thousands of others.»

That book is widely available, it's in print, ebook, audio book, your local library, their local library, their OTHER local library, the OTHER OTHER local library, and on the bookshelves of homes in their area.

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.

Capti supports many popular file formats such as HTML, EPUB, PDF, and DOC that can be added to the Playlist from numerous sources, including the local computer, other iOS apps, Cloud storage services: Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive; read - it - later lists: Instapaper and Pocket; and, now, also the Project Gutenberg eBook library.

There are other ebook sources available to libraries, ie 3M Cloud library, Freading, OneClick Digital, and others.

Some readers like to keep their eBook library fully stocked; others want to see only a few favourites at a time.

These changes, both in the virtual world such as an eBook library, and now in the physical world with a wider and wider assortment of home CAD and CAM with more and more flexibility in terms of materials and the size of the objects manufactured, signal a huge change that the world is barely able to conceive in its mind but which is happening in an ever widening set of circles as exemplified by MIT's FABLABs, and other more commercial examples of similar products, and product production arrays.

Supporting the EPUB and PDF format, you can read eBook content published in website, blogs and other online content from your Instapaper account where you get daily newspaper delivered to your Kobo library.

Other Kobos require sideloading library ebooks with a computer, which requires several extra steps.

Depending on an eBook or PDF's permissions, other options appear: icons for adding / viewing notes, highlights, and links weren't available when we opened a PDF of Chicks Dig Time Lords, but were there when we opened any of the EPUB books in the library.

OverDrive — The Kobo Aura One has OverDrive support built - in to easily download free library ebooks directly to the device without having to use a computer or other device.

Powering on the Libre Air brings up seven numbered boxes: the ebook library, the current item you're reading, a recent - items list, music, photos, settings, and an Others button to summon additional options (including access to the Kobo Books store).

The Glo HD has a more budget design compared to the Nook but the software is a lot more advanced, so unless the waterproofing and hackable Android OS mean a lot to potential customers it's hard to see many people choosing the Nook over the Glo HD, especially when B&N makes it so people can't download their purchased ebooks for backup and neglects to add Adobe DRM support for library ebooks and books purchased from other sources.

A few days back I explained the problem just at my library in Novato, California, where of the six largest publishers in the U.S. only two will sell or lease ebooks to the county library, and of those one charges huge rates, the other has a use limit before the ebook is made unusable!

The key point is that the availability of a free, manipulable public domain ebook library is what made LibriVox possible along with some other underlying technologies.

While all of this comes included in the new eBook App, the other good thing with eBook is that it makes sure the library along with all the bookmarks of a user to be automatically coordinated with the rest of the applications, thus making the Kobo e-reader a quality experience for all users who won't ever have to face any glitch with their reading on any device enabled by Kobo.

The user's online library contains not only all books bought in the txtr eBook shop but also any other books or documents the user has uploaded to the library on the web via txtr's unique upload feature.

Today, Hachette has informed Overdrive and various other libraries that the company will be increasing costs on its ebooks by over 220 % on October 1st, 2012.

As of today, Penguin has come back and told OverDrive it will allow its titles to be available to Kindle users, as well as the other e-reader device patrons who've been borrowing ebooks through their local public libraries all along.

«The automated buying tool is a powerful and customizable way for each library to manage its eBook collection and free up time for other tasks.»

There are other libraries that follow the same sort of paid membership access to ebooks, including Fairfax County Library in Virginia, Houston Public Library in Texas, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in North Carolina, and the Monroe County Library in New York.