Sentences with phrase «single ebook license»
It began with a February 24 email (PDF file) from OverDrive CEO Steve Potash alerting customers that «Publishers are expressing concern and debating their digital future where a single eBook license to a library may never expire, never wear out, and never need replacement» and that one firm (which turned out to be HarperCollins) had decided to solve the problem it perceived by establishing «a checkout limit for each eBook licensed.»
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The problem with ebooks limited to ecosystems is that even the single copy is licensed.
From licensing agreements over how many ebook checkouts a single library can use to how to put audio content on patrons» personal devices, the options have been not only limited, they've been somewhat cost prohibitive.
The library will therefore have to decide whether each ebook will come under a non-concurrent single user license (the only one possible with print books), allowing access to one user only, i.e. as occurs with printed books, or whether it will allow multiple users access to the same eBook simultaneoebook will come under a non-concurrent single user license (the only one possible with print books), allowing access to one user only, i.e. as occurs with printed books, or whether it will allow multiple users access to the same eBook simultaneoeBook simultaneously.
No, you can not as eBooks are usually subject to a single user license.