Sentences with phrase «since public library patrons»

3) since public library patrons are skewed, economically, to the less affluent among us, ebooks and particularly female authored ebooks may not get into everyone's hands until ebook tech (ereaders) will be borrowable.

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At the same time, a national digital public library system could actually strengthen local libraries since local librarians could still play up the material most relevant to their patrons and could buy content from outside the national system.

Since 2008, that system has allowed public library patrons access to ebooks no matter which of the 15 branches they belong to.

Prior to 2011, e-book borrowers were able to check out several formats of e-books from their local libraries — including ePub, the free, «universal» e-book standard set by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) since 2007, used by Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Google Books.50 However, e-book borrowers could not check out books on Amazon's Kindle, the predominant e-reader at the time.51 In 2011, however, Amazon partnered with OverDrive, and in September 2011 library patrons who own Kindles were able to borrow Kindle books from public and school libraries in the United States.52