Sentences with phrase «person lending the book»

The person lending the book will not be able to read it during the time that it is loaned out.

Best selling author Neil Gaiman was quoted in a video interview earlier this year, who came to the conclusion that what piracy really amounted to what was «people lending books ``, he said.

Not exact matches

More than 500 people sign on including many of Canada's leading cultural figures who lend personal endorsements and signed books to the effort.

Here's how it works: the publisher appoints Amazon the only store where someone can buy their book and Amazon will share a pool of money based on how many times a person borrows that book from their new «lending library».

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.

If you're feeling generous, you can use the NookColor's LendMe feature to «loan» books to friends for up to 14 days (although each book can be lent to only one person — period).

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

As US libraries and subscription models struggle with publishers and rights holders on how to ensure that revenue reaches the right people under lending models, the National Library of Norway seems to have hit on a model that works for them: just give the books away online, and pay the publishers yourself.

Here in Alexandria, the library commendably lends «kits» of paper books to people who want to start their own p - book clubs.

In a pilot program that will begin this year, Penguin has worked with Baker & Taylor, a distributor of print and digital books, to start e-book lending programs in the Los Angeles County library system, which will reach four million people, and the Cuyahoga County system in Ohio.

Denis Zwirn, president of Numilog, explained in June 2007: «As the main French - speaking aggregator of digital books, Numilog runs both the technical platform of the BnH — for it to be able to lend books to disabled people — and the catalog of digital books.

I like having something I can lend to other people and feel it is my responsibility to keep good books for them to read.

• «Redbox» - style lending machines or kiosks located throughout the community where people can check out books, movies or music without having to go to the library itself: 33 % of Americans ages 16 and older would «very likely» use that service and another 30 % say they would be «somewhat likely» to do so.

This not only is a personal thing, that lends the assist in the books you want to read this year, but you can view other peoples lists to get inspiration or discover new content.

The communities behind the Kindle are the largest and both models have the ability to lend books out to people that you have purchased from Amazon.

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.

They function as the middlemen to help people list the books they own and books they want to be lent from other people.

These lending sites might be a boon to people who have e-readers, but don't have any direct friends or family members who also have a device and the same taste in books.

Lendle can't work if people aren't willing to lend books.

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 situation most people find themselves in, is that they are the lone wolf in their circle of friends that actually have an e-reader and actively want to lend and be lent books to save even more money.

Authors actually make money when people borrow their books for free via Amazon, and make nothing when their book is shared between friends on book lending websites.

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

And people are also adding tags / collections / bookshelves to their online book sharing profiles to let their friends know what books they have availalble to lend.

Additional restrictions that prevent people doing things, like reselling the books and lending them to friends and family, that they are allowed to do with print books, and which readers put great value on.

Many books can be loaned to the same person, but a book can only be lent out once.

One thing forgot to mention is with Kindle if you want to get into their «Kindle select» (their lending library where you get royalties when people loan your book out) you do sign an exclusive deal with them but it's only for 90 days with a clear cutoff date when you can re-sign if you want.

Kindle library lending was the biggest story of the year and people can now borrow library books and have them delivered to their Kindle e-Reader or Tablet.

LendingeBook is one of our favourite book lending sites because it is currently the only one that allows people to borrow both Kindle and Nook Books.

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.

Lendle announced today the cancellation of the Pay to Lend feature, which gave Amazon giftcards to the people who loaned the most books.

New mechanisms need to be put in place so lending can take place; changing people's relationships to books and making a normal practice a crime isn't a solution.

People lend paper books all the time; that is a legal and perfectly legitimate practice.

This is a great interview and we talk about how digital library lending has changed the way people access books and how libraries themselves have adapted to it.

@Shelley, I sure hope that's how it goes, but unlike the person who bought my book on Nook, and only be able to lend it one time, my title through this would be lendable forever through that library — at least, that's how I'm understanding this.

Also a book about Manchester United will probably also lend itself to WoM, both because football fans organize themselves in groups and because it's the sort of book that will have lots of photos and people will have a look at it rather than really reading it, and so things can happen a lot faster than with a standard text based book.

They also work out well for people like me who do not have easy access to huge physical lending libraries and / or read a large number of books a month.

Books are carried across continents, translated into local languages, given or shipped or lent to people who the author has never met or will never know.

It did not however stop use from matching people for book lending.»

But Lendlink was simply another channel to connect people to the sites where the books could be lent out, freely and legally.

Finally many people were hoping that Simon & Schuster and eventually come around and offer their books for lending.

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.»

Most people pirate books because of the money factor and most book sharing clubs allow their members to lend and get lent books for free.

Clicking on the Lend button shows you the email address of the person you will lend the book Lend button shows you the email address of the person you will lend the book lend the book too.

I hate the idea of not being able to lend people books I love.

«The day Amazon rolled out lending, December 30, I thought it would be cool to have a community where people connect with one another to lend and borrow Kindle books.

But for many longtime book lovers, the industry doesn't feel like a completely organic part of our reading lives, either: Giving people more control over how they lend, share, and sell their used books would be a big step.

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.

On the other hand, DRM prevents people from easily migrating their book across platforms * or lending it to a friend or family member (which incidentally is one way authors get new readers — and new customers.)