Sentences with phrase «sharing library ebooks»

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Whether it is sharing our eBooks or audiobooks together or watching TV shows and movies, hoopla offers a range of family content and an experience that can be enjoyed across screens — all with a library card.»

Students can share eBooks they've created with a younger group of children, or add them to a shared set of iPads that are checked out in your media center or library.

Ian shared a slew of statistics related to eBooks; public libraries anticipate a 36 % increase in eBook circulation and while only 7 % of public libraries circulate preloaded eReading devices, 24 % are considering it.

The World eBook Fair also includes millions of eBooks that are usually only available to World Public Library members, yearly rate of $ 8.95, and whose eBooks are are yours to keep or share with friends, family, libraries, schools, etc., as long as you would like to do so.

This phenomenon has been shared for years from companies like Kobo and OverDrive, who've worked to convince publishers that library lending and ebooks are good for their business.

The Connecticut State Library has announced that the first phase of the development of a statewide library eBook platform (eGO) will begin with Library Connection, Inc. [non-profit cooperative of 30 public and academic libraries which share an integrated library system (CONNECT)-RSB- and the Ferguson Library [in Stamford, CT].

From the very beginning of digital lending through libraries and personal consumer shares, publishers have been wary of the implications of ebook lending.

Library Director Catherina was so excited to share her library's digital collection of eBooks, audiobooks and video with her community of French and English readers.

Both devices offer similar reading features like adding notes, highlights, bookmarks, both have dictionary lookup, translations, Wikipedia reference, each offers reading stats, social network sharing, search, table of contents, onboard stores, collections for organizing content, and both support library ebooks and have a basic web browser that can download DRM free ebooks from free ebook websites.

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.

Destiny 10.5 and FollettShelf integration, Williams added, gives administrators access to powerful tools to manage and share eBook collections, increase library usage and support mobile device initiatives.

The txtr solution offers an end - to - end eBook discovery, purchase, read and share consumer experience, built on a back - end platform with store, a cloud based personal library storage and an extensive international eBook catalogue.

It allowed all of the libraries to buy titles from a shared list and those ebooks are available to be delivered to ANY library in BC.

Sourcebooks and Overdrive will share the data from the ebook being available in so many different libraries.

It is supported by its own library touted as the «YouTube» of eBooks where both amateur and professional writers can share content by uploading their published and unpublished works for readers to download, and there are tons of fiction short stories, fantasies, science fiction, romance, etc., that you won't find in Kindle or Nook sites.

ReadersFirst doesn't sanction or promote any device; however, since many library eBook readers use Kindles (and often not the newest version), we thought we'd share this news from Amazon, mostly so that our member librarians know and can be ready to answer trouble - shooting questions from patrons at library desks and help lines.

That ebook can then be shared by anyone at no cost, whether it is libraries, Amazon, or your next door neighbor doing the sharing doesn't matter.

Our experience suggests that library eBook readers tend to be proud of what they read and are more likely to share their lists on social media than to hide anything.

The txtr solution offers an end - to - end eBook discovery, purchase, read and share consumer experience, built on a back - end platform with store, personal library storage and an extensive international eBook catalogue.

«We have been sharing our love of books in South Africa for more than four years now, and will ensure Exclusive Books» eBook customers are able to continue enjoying, as well as expand, their digital libraries.»

Joe's initiative is great, but if we could inform our readers that the money they spend on taxes going to libraries is practically only devoted to trad pub books and ebooks, and that this doesn't reflect EXACTLY, for instance the indie market share of the first retailer in the world, maybe things would advance a little bit in the right direction.

AMERICAN LIBRARIES: After several years of rapid growth, the market share for ebooks has plateaued.

Now that the initial crisis has subsided and the market share has leveled off, it's a good time to assess what's in store for ebooks — and especially for libraries and other intermediaries, such as bookstores — in 2016 and beyond.

The goal of the software is to give a satisfying way to read ebooks on the regular desktop operating system, with the ability to manage your ebook collection and share your ebook library.

Not only that, you can also share your ebook library with others and allow them access to your ebook collection.

If publishers raise their prices like Random House has done and people can not borrow ebooks from the library or buy them for a reasonably low price, they will do as they did for music — download the book illegally for free and share them with all their friends.

The txtr solution offers an end - to - end eBook discovery, purchase, read and share consumer experience, built on a cloud based back - end platform with store, a personal library and an extensive international eBook catalogue.

A consortium of 10 academic libraries in Nova Scotia, Novanet, has negotiated a deal with publishers to allow the sharing of ebooks among libraries as freely as they share print books.

Many publishers share this coolness towards e-lending, with only Random House and Bloomsbury still signed up to OverDrive, the library ebook platform.

Ebooks offer many new benefits to both libraries and their patrons and it's reasonable to look at what value the new things bring, such as instant access from home, and how that should be shared.

If you really want to share Kindle ebooks instead of having a family member choose the method in which they want to read the book (i.e. purchase a hard copy or use the library), you can either (1) purchase additional Kindles for your family members and share the ebooks that way, or (2) physically lend them your Kindle (which I notice critics never accept as a real possibility).

Listen to best sellers: • The Girl on the Train • Truly, Madly, Guilty • The Power of Habit • Harry Potter • The Martian • A Man Called Ove • Homegoing • The Gene • When Breath Becomes Air • End of Watch A wide range of popular categories like: • Crime and Thrillers • Science Fiction • Fantasy • Romance • Classics • Novels • Mystery • Horror • Self - development • Mindfulness and meditation • Business • Children's books Features designed for the audiobook listener: • Chapter navigation • Listen over wifi, save on data • Download to your device for offline listening • Create clips of favorite passages and share with friends and on social media • Send any book in your library to your friends - their first book is on us • Bookmarking • Sleep mode, dark or light theme, variable narration speed, button - free mode and more • Control your listening experience with Cortana voice commands and button - free mode • Compatible with thousands of ebooks from Amazon - switch seamlessly between listening to your audiobooks and reading on your Kindle with Whispersync for Voice.

Give an ebook to your library, for them to share?

The 10 participating university libraries deposited $ 100,000 with an ebook vendor for shared access to 16,000 titles.

If you own the Kindle, and your significant other also likes to read ebooks, you probably share the same Amazon account and the same Kindle cloud library.

Denver, CO, September 8, 2016 — ODILO, a global leader in the eBook industry, is excited to provide customized eBook solutions for consortia, regional networks, and state - wide library agencies so they can manage their own eContent marketplace and easily share titles among member libraries.

Currently, ebooks represent an average of almost 10 percent of academic libraries» acquisitions budget, and respondents expect that share to grow to almost 20 percent by 2017.

If so, share this video with your readers to let them know how they can recommend your eBook to their library.

Be a part of the festivities by checking your favorite eBook out from the library, sharing your reading stories, entering to win prizes or just simply setting aside some time to read.

After submitting to SELF - e, your ebook can be shared with patrons of participating libraries across your state or province.

We'll discuss what resale, sharing, gifting, and library lending will look like in a world where eBooks predominate.

In a pilot project that began in November, the member libraries deposited a total of $ 100,000 to access a shared collection of about 16,000 ebooks through vendor EBL.

You seem to be refusing to understand that one ebook purchase that is then spread around to hundreds of thousands or millions of people is different than a local library system having three copies of a book for a few million people to share.

Readers have options: libraries or ebook sharing.

From The Ebook Reader, How to set up profiles and family library sharing on Kindle and Fire Tablets.

I just shared this with the eBook committee at my library.

While MLS, MBLC, and IMLS absorbed the cost of the pilot and plan to continue subsidizing platform fees, libraries interested in participating in any ebook sharing partnership that emerges from this project will eventually have to pay for access.