Sentences with phrase «simultaneous access model»

Total BooX seeks to eliminate this frustration by providing a multi-user, simultaneous access model, with libraries paying only for the parts of the books their patrons read.

Not exact matches

They can mix their collections with a variety of access models — from one copy / one user, metered access to simultaneous use and soon Cost - per - Circ for eBooks and audiobooks — depending on the title, expected demand, and budget.

While some publishers only allow the one - copy, one - user model, they encourage all of the publishers to agree to other lending models, including simultaneous access and Pay - per - Use (PpU).

To maximize title availability for users and ROI for libraries, OverDrive already supports multiple access models, including Cost - per - circ, Simultaneous Use — from a growing list of suppliers — and Classroom Sets.

Flexible lending models, with different options available including Pay - per - Use, simultaneous access, subscription, or one - copy, one - user (expiring, metered, or perpetual use).

It's time for a change to multiple pricing models on the content most readers want, subscriptions with simultaneous user access for libraries, and a technologically simplified reading experience.

- Various lending models available, including Pay - per - Use, simultaneous access, subscription, and / or one - copy, one - user.

To help consortia and library groups stretch their budgets further, ODILO offers various lending models, including one - copy / one - user, Pay - per - Use, simultaneous access, and / or subscription.

RUSSELLActually, we have in the academic publishing area there's a lot of great movement using different business models to provide e-books to college students, all kinds of different options including simultaneous access.

While the publishers who treat ebooks as printed books make most of their sales to the public and are rightfully concerned that school and library sales will erode the consumer sales that they need to survive, the publishers who have developed and champion the unlimited simultaneous use with perpetual access model sell only to or principally to school libraries.

In the unlimited simultaneous access with perpetual ownership model, the sophisticated interactive features of each platform will add so much to the usability of the books that migration would be a mistake, if it were possible.

This balance could be radically altered by the development of standard models (you guessed it: librarians most want maximum / simultaneous access or unlimited circs if one reader / one book) and by the rise of purchase on demand (better known in library circles as patron - driven acquisition).

Public libraries in particular have struggled with ebooks for the past 20 years because many ebook models don't allow simultaneous access.