Sentences with phrase «said library of titles»

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«In 2006, with reduced hours, fewer staff to carry the load, curtailed programs and service and far too few new titles to satisfy the demands of library users, we have simply exhausted all avenues,» said B&ECPL Board Chair Rebecca Pordum.

With a growing library of flicks like Bright and Mudbound (and First They Came for My Father and The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja and 1922 and a whole range of other movies) combined with the standup specials pouring forth from the streaming service and a hot new show once every couple months — to say nothing of the increasingly unimportant back catalog of Hollywood titles — it's hard to think of a better value for your dollar than the eleven bucks Netflix's streaming service runs you each month.

«Streaming video is the fastest - growing category of digital titles you can now access from your local library,» said Alexis Petric - Black, OverDrive's manager of publisher account services, in a press release.

McGraw Hill says academic libraries will be interested in reference works, and public libraries will find «a wealth of titles» on careers and business skills, student and career exam study guides, and «How to Do Everything» books on consumer technology.

To begin with, she says, e-books never wear out so libraries may not feel the need to buy new copies of a title.

Unlike the deals Smashwords already has with US library distributors, Coker said, all Smashwords titles — not just a selection — will be available to patrons of the libraries serviced by A&H, and libraries will be charged only when a patron wants to check out a book.

«The availability of this deep library of manga titles on the iBooks Store brings some of the genre's most popular and acclaimed series to legions of new and existing fans across North America with the reliability and convenience Apple's platform is renowned for,» says Gagan Singh, EVP and CTO, VIZ Media.

«I found that in comparing some of the titles from the independent publishers were offered in the library's NC Digital Library, several had waiting lists, and were also in Freading where they could be checked out with no delay,» said Library Director Ruth Ann Copley.

Skip Dye, VP of library sales for Penguin Random House said in a recent interview «The key determinant with Penguin Random House library e-pricing is the opportunity for the full and permanent ownership of our titles purchased for their collections, which can evolve into a potentially unlimited number of library patrons borrowing that e-Book in perpetuity.

Amazon isn't showing its complete lending library selection online, but says lending titles include popular titles such as «Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game,» «The Big Short» and «Liars» Poker» by Michael Lewis, «The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People» by Stephen R. Covey, and «The Last Lecture» by Randy Pausch.

Amazon said it paid a fixed fee to publishers for most of the titles in its new library.

«We are excited to bring together our award - winning NOOK Tablet and this fantastic free collection of bestselling titles so children can start building their summer reading library,» said Jim Hilt, Vice President of eBooks for Barnes & Noble, in the press release.

In a phone interview, Richter said that under the new imprint, Scholastic will oversee the marketing and distribution of print editions of Ruckus Media's digital titles through the Scholastic network of school book clubs and book fairs, libraries, and trade book retailers.

«We're thrilled to offer Open Road's treasured titles to our partner libraries and their patrons anytime with a library card, without any holds or waits,» said Jeff Jankowski, founder and owner of hoopla digital.

«Libraries are at the forefront of a digitally evolving world, offering readers in their communities access to innovative tools to borrow titles from their digital collection within seconds,» said Steve Potash, founder and CEO of OverDrive.

«We generally believe that the current pricing models are not sustainable, and that libraries can not develop collections of critical size if they're paying $ 90 per title or re-buying titles every year,» Anthony said.

«Libraries will be pleased that the combined Penguin Random House license will ensure perpetual access to e-titles, and all will be glad the previous ceiling of $ 85 per title has been reduced,» said ALA President Sari Feldman.

«All of us at Kobo are thrilled to be adding Dark Horse's amazing titles to our library,» says Michael Tamblyn, EVP Content, Sales & Merchandising.

«We believe our new library e-pricing reflects the high value placed on perpetuity of lending and simultaneity of availability for our titles,» said Stuart Applebaum, a Random House spokesperson.

Nick Poole, chief executive of CILIP, said: «While most libraries in the UK lend e-books the choice of titles is limited, and less than one percent of all books lent are e-books.

In addition, Sony said the PS3 now features a library of more than 2,100 software titles which have sold a combined 480 million units worldwide.

The BookSurge deal «means that titles that have been generally unavailable for a century or more will be able to go back into print, one copy at a time,» said Paul N. Courant, University of Michigan librarian and dean of libraries, in a statement last Tuesday.

The proposal was to get together a «starter» list of, say, 800-1000 quality commercial New Zealand titles, to create them in a simple and inexpensive way through bulk - buying of ebook production services (particularly for indie publishers, the major publishers already have a lot of ebook inventory), and to market them as a package to early market makers such as e-reader device manufacturers, ebook retailers, libraries, and others.

Penguin and Amazon are in dispute over the terms of sale and lending for Penguin titles, but Penguin's response has been to order Amazon to lock down the ebooks that libraries acquired — using their precious and dwindling collections budgets — so that patrons can no longer check them out (Update: Amazon says Penguin and Overdrive, the e-book lending service, took the action without Amazon's involvement.

As BitLit amasses a library of «just over 100,000» titles, Hudson says, his company is now able to account for «roughly 10 to 15 percent of the titles on shelves today.

That combo of requirements — curation and large volumes of titles — Singer says «led us to the conclusion that the pricing model of not paying royalties in exchange for the broad marketing and discovery opportunity that getting content into public libraries would provide to self - published authors» was the way to go.

And I say this as someone who has 19 shelves of bound books and an electronic library of several hundred titles in her house.

Houghton also said that the ebook title discovery process is constrained by not directing patrons to bestsellers, where waiting periods will give them a negative experience, and by situations where due to changing availability, the library owns the earlier volumes of a series in ebook form, but not the most recent.

Sixty - four percent of respondents also said that membership in a consortium enables their library to offer access to a larger selection of ebook titles.

In the «ABCs of eBook Discovery,» Head of Readers» Advisory for the Darien Public Library Stephanie Anderson sounded a note that would resound throughout the discussion when she said that these days, ebook discovery is more about patrons discovering the fact that their library HAS ebooks, and how to borrow and read them, than it is about discovering particular titles, and «does that count?»

For its part, Recorded Books says the platform will include dashboards and reporting systems that maintain records of the terms that each individual title was purchased under, by each individual library in a system, even if a publisher later changes those terms for other sales.

Generally perceived as more affordable, requiring less labor, involving less restrictive DRM policies, and giving libraries the most value, eCollections are said to alleviate some of the frustrations librarians encounter with title - by - title purchasing.

«Each library will purchase their own books for their online library,» Hadie said «We have a huge database with millions and millions of titles.

On Tuesday, it restored access to its older titles through the libraries who have signed up for the Amazon service, but said it would not be providing any of its new e-books to the program.

According to Library Journal, Budler refused to renew the libraries» contract with OverDrive when the distribution service attempted not only to significantly raise fees, but also to rewrite the terms of the contract in such a way that would prevent the libraries from ever transferring their holdings to a different provider.20 The State Library of Kansas then decided to transfer the libraries» existing digital content to a new e-book lending service from technology company 3M, although Budler said that they first had to secure individual publishers» permission to transfer the titles.

«Our library customers are excited to see Sesame Workshop titles available in our marketplace,» said Nadine Billard, Senior Vice President of Content Acquisitions and Strategic Partnerships.

BUT, like I said, I went through that same process, going through my Amazon account and searching for the title to tell it to delete, BUT, Amazon couldn't find that book in my library of ebooks, so I couldn't tell it to delete it.

The service amassed a library of more than 4,000 titles, which Sony says will remain available to PSP users.

There, 54 percent of respondents said that it would be reasonable for publishers to make ebook titles available to libraries one month after publication.

It's that time again where we have to prepare to say goodbye to a selection of titles currently available in the Xbox Game Pass library.

That being said, the Wii U and 3DS have quietly built up sizeable libraries and when a big sale comes along — such as this week's Halloween spooktacular — it's a reminder of how many high - quality titles are hidden away.

With the being said, Victor Vran still needs to be considered simply due to its presence on the Steam's library of titles for consumers to purchase.

First appearing in 1989 and with a library of 30 + titles steeped in the mystery of Japanese Pro Wrestling — saying nothing of the fan communities that have grown around them — I found myself frozen.

I'll admit that the only reason I got Steam was because I wanted to play Team Fortress 2, and nearly six years later, my Steam library is now full of titles that I've owned for several years and will always say, «I'll get to them eventually.»

The 40th anniversary of SNK is among us, and a new plug and play (plus tabletop) machine, containing popular titles from the Neo Geo library are coming in celebration, as a way of saying «thank you» to everyone that has supported the companies hard work over the years.

The level of graphical quality is the highest among all motion enabled titles in our library, and the driving physics are incredibly satisfying»,» said Wilson Bales.

By terms of such an arrangement, one or several libraries would identify themselves as having a complete collection of a specified legacy print item (say, the Lower Canada Reports, 1851 - 1867) and commit to keeping that collection in perpetuity, giving other libraries the option of disposing of their holdings of that title while ensuring at least one copy is retained and available to all.

However, I thought I would say that I think you are on the right track with collaboration among the 3 major GTA law libraries (i.e., there is no need for all 3 of you to have duplicate sets of the same title in storage) and I trust the «Big Heads» to make good decisions regarding collaboration and what to keep or not.

As an example, by saying: «Hey, Cortana, I want to play Killer Instinct,» it can search through a library of games, show matching titles, and ask which one to load.

Some might even go so far as to say that while Nintendo still releases some of the most polished, top reviewed titles in video games (just take a look at the Wii U's stellar library), its hardware offerings are often years behind its competitors.