Sentences with phrase «people lend ebooks»

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

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There are also many people, particularly in developing nations, who have no access to the technology or infrastructure to support ebooks, and these people will continue to buy or lend print books, when they can.

However, the survey found that, while the number of people visiting a physical library location may have dropped by a few percentage point, library website use is up, possibly due to increased access to ebook lending to personal devices and library subscriptions to streaming videos, music, and research tools.

According to some librarians, ebook lending is the reason more people are borrowing books.

Authors can also sign their eBooks, people can borrow them, and even lend them.

Even in the library world, in spite of all the recent discussion about how the Big 6 are deciding whether and how to lend ebooks to libraries, most people can't.

As public libraries tried to shift their operation models to meet more people's needs and began installing computer labs, television viewing areas, audiobook listening rooms, and more, as well as spending their time and battling the issue of ebook lending, Coates explained that the money for actual borrowable books began to dwindle away.

In the digital age, there is no denying that people are pirate eBooks from popular torrent sites, but why should eBook lending clubs not care?

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.

Libraries are paying a premium for those titles they can get as ebooks, close to $ 30 for a Random House new release, and have accepted limits in lending such as only 26 check outs for each purchased Harper Collins book, and one person having it checked out at a time.

The main reason that lending sites will become the way people trade books comes to a question of quality of the ebook.

When Amazon added the ability to loan some purchased Kindle ebooks, I knew it wouldn't be long before we saw some new services to help people borrow & lend titles.

This new venture is directed at taking away the barriers of reading for a lot of people, specifically public library patrons who are currently still at the whim of the publishers when it comes to ebook lending.

Despite the fact libraries are seeing record usage because of ebook lending, people are still visiting the actual location.

Upon reading the article eBook Fling responded «I feel that people will using lending to try out new authors, try out unknown titles, and try to source some of their books cheaper.

She said «eBookFling is an ebook swapping community that helps people get the most out of their e-reading experience by helping them find people to lend books with.»

This new venture is directed at taking away the barriers to reading for a lot of people, specifically public library patrons who are currently still at the whim of the publishers when it comes to ebook lending.

We feel that most people want to stay on the right side of of copyright law and that the drawbacks you listed in that excellent article are absolutely a disincentive when more legitimate, attractive alternatives like ebook lending exist.

In its library trials, Penguin allows an ebook to be lent to only one person at a time, and after a year the library has to buy a new copy of the ebook.

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

Plus, they want an exclusive from self - published authors, but not for people like J.A. Konrath (his «Exposed» is available for lending on Amazon, and sold as an ebook at Barnes and Noble).

Another advantage of DRM is that it allows libraries to lend people ebooks for limited periods of time (using systems like OverDrive ®).

But if people are going to get into the regular practice of ebook lending, they will want to be able to lend or borrow as many books as possible, without regard to what price it was at when they acquired it.

About the ebooks, the library can only lend one ebook to one person at one time, just like a print book.

Today OverDrive announced that their Big Library Read is coming back next month, which is a global ebook club of sorts that gives people around the world an opportunity to read the same ebook, or listen to the audiobook, for free through the 30,000 + public libraries and schools that use OverDrive's ebook lending program.

Penguin's terms with Baker & Taylor and 3M are the same: Ebooks are not available to libraries six months after they are published, an ebook can only be lent to one person at a time and after a year the library has to buy a new copy.

Unfortunately, it's hard for publishers to raise the pricing issue and it seems to be almost impossible for them to speak openly about what sorts of (often artificial) constraints could limit ebook lending to reasonable levels especially when many people would think, «the more the better».

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.

Raphael objected to his idea that libraries could stop lending ebook best sellers, focusing instead on «the backlist; on how we can promote people to read....

When Amazon decided to lend eBooks to its customers, people from all around the world applauded the decision because it will allow avid readers to get access to the books without actually buying a Kindle device.

If you're one of the millions of people who own an Amazon Kindle, you'll have noticed that there have recently been more free downloadable ebooks than every, especially for members of Amazon Prime, who have access to thousands of ebooks in the lending library.

A person can lend the ebook to a friend and still have it on their computer / eReader to read (unless done through Amazon's lending program).