Sentences with phrase «providing ebook lending»

The rules and opportunities are different with ebooks, and, indeed, we are now seeing for - profit companies providing ebook lending services.

Gardners also provides an ebook lending model for a number of libraries, under which library members are restricted to one concurrent loan per purchased ebook.

3M Library Systems, creators of cloud - based ebook lending and a library - specific e-reader device for patron checkout, and OverDrive, the leading provider of ebooks, audio books, and downloads to over 18,000 public libraries, may be competitors in the services they provide, but they are united in the fact that their work is intended to increase the capabilities of public libraries to provide ebook lending services to patrons.

by Shelley Hitz Overdrive provides an eBook lending service to libraries.

Gardners also provides an eBook lending model for a number of libraries, under which library members are restricted to one concurrent loan per purchased eBook.Gardners Books makes your eBook available in ePub format, so it will be readable on any ePub - compatible device (iPad, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo Reader, etc.) With Gardners» wholesale pricing structure, you will earn 60 % of the list price you set for your eBook.

Overdrive provides an eBook lending service to libraries.

Not exact matches

As library ebook lending for both academic and public institutions continues to make steady progress, libraries are finally able to «shop» the competition to provide the best user experience for their patrons, the largest catalogs of bestselling titles, and investigate the available features of different platforms.

For Kindle owners, however, the service also provides access to a plethora of more than 800,000 ebooks via its lending library.

The «Big 6» publishers are increasingly skittish about providing ebooks for public libraries to lend.

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.

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.

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.

OverDrive, which provides a full catalog of ebooks for public and school libraries to lend their patrons to over 15,000 libraries, was stunned this week when Penguin Group demanded that all of their titles be pulled from OverDrive's catalog, claiming that it had «security concerns.»

«The 3M Cloud Library eBook lending service has simplified the discovery, browsing and check out process for eBooks so that more patrons can enjoy the digital content their library provides.»

Example Library Lend — Borrower would borrow the ebook by providing ebook credit card.

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

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.

I see the advantage of ebooks to libraries is that (1) they don't have to pay (much) for storage space, often for books that are little used and (2) they can lend «more» copies of a book than they actually have — why shouldn't a library lend 30 copies of an ebook at the same time (ie pre-exams), rather than just the one, provided there's a payment mechanism attached (sorry, there's always a commercial aspect!).

Still, at this point for Amazon, lending a helping hand to traditional ebook sales might be a logical strategic move — one intended to provide a digital carrot for the largest traditional publishers, in the hopes of forestalling their ongoing deliberate and self - damaging retreat from ebooks.

Libraries provide many services besides ebook lending.

In fact, one of B&N's biggest selling points with the Nook is the ability to lend a purchased ebook for 14 days, provided the publisher allows it.

The company's digital arm provides audiobook and eBook lending to the library market through the RBdigital platform, alongside several other platforms specializing in same - day newspapers and magazines, adult learning and language tutorial programs.

«Looking ahead, we are continuing to talk about our future plans for ebook and digital audiobook availability for library lending with a number of partners providing these services,» said Erica Glass, in a prepared statement.

The Kindle Lending Library effort will be powered by OverDrive, a digital - content provider that currently provides ebook services to those aforementioned 11,000 libraries, and which provides ebook library - lending services to owners of the Sony Reader, a petite device far less successful than Amazon's Kindle.