Sentences with phrase «support ebook lending»

As it stands now, pricing is making it almost impossible for libraries to fully support ebook lending.

One of the end results of these meetings is an agreement from Random House that it would support ebook lending of its catalog of titles, but that the price that libraries must pay for those books would have to increase.

One great thing about ebooks is that fact that many public libraries around the world support ebook lending for free.

Overdrive does have a number of major companies still supporting ebook lending such as; Random House, HarperCollins, John Wiley, Harlequin Romance, Kensington, Perseus, Sourcebooks, Scholastic, Chronicle, among others, and hundreds of their best - selling authors strongly support and are partnering with OverDrive to build stronger connections to library eBook readers.

Not exact matches

There are also many people, particularly in developing nations, who have no access to the technology or infrastructure to support ebooks, and these people will continue to buy or lend print books, when they can.

Whatever the real number clearly Amazon remains the leading ebook vendor and its continuing refusal to support library lending locks libraries out of the most popular format from the vendor with the best title selection and the lowest prices.

While many e-reader recipients would logically be expected to open user accounts with the platform that serves their e-readers and then follow through with a few ebook purchases in the post-gift giving excitement, it actually speaks volumes about where consumers choose to spend their dollars and lend their support that patrons were checking out ebooks on Christmas.

The arrival of the Lending Library is an important step for Kindle as Amazon's ereaders do not support the EPUB format, used by public libraries to lend ebooks.

While other major publishers have been adopters of ebook lending on some scale, Potash's admiration was for a publisher to look at the very clear data on how lending actually supports authors and publishers, and make a strong decision to support it.

The key selling points of the Sony DRM are; to make eBook rentals viable, to lend an eBook to a friend easier, to define a clear path of ownership, better pay per chapter (metered) support and the ability to resell a book.

B&N's LendMe system is also supported, so you can lend ebooks to family and friends.

One of the hurdles that librarians face is the ease of use for their patrons; after all, if patrons can not navigate a cumbersome system, patron and librarian support and demand for ebook lending may fall.

Kobo also supports the formats demanded by the UK's main ebook lending services.

On the other hand, having become quite used to borrowing ebooks from my public library I was upset to find the ubiquitous library lending app Overdrive not supported here.

When Nook 1 was first announced, it had the following main advantages over the incumbent Kindle 2 — PDF support, ebook lending (even if it was / is just a token feature), library book support, replaceable battery, LCD touch - screen at the bottom, millions of free books from Google (although you could convert these for Kindle), ePub support, Chess and Sudoku, slightly better screen contrast, memory card slot, both WiFi and 3G.

Some features are pretty much a given: ebook lending, syncing, notes, highlights, dictionary, adjustable text size and type, support for Adobe DRM, WiFi, and PDF support (hopefully improved PDF support).

If you can minimize your need for typing, and don't mind a bit of ergonomic discomfort, the ad - supported Amazon Kindle with Wi - Fi is a great eReader choice, offering useful features such as public library access to eBooks and Kindle - to - Kindle lending.

OverDrive is the leading platform for ebook and audiobook lending to public and school libraries, with over 30,000 supported libraries worldwide.

Like the Kindle Fire, the Nook Tablet supports library lending so you can borrow eBooks from your local public library for free.

Yes, Digital Editions fully supports Adobe Content Server DRM technology and is designed to work smoothly with existing library eBook lending services based on the Adobe Content Server infrastructure.

There are still lots of options to customise font types and sizes, as well as margins, and all the exclusive features we love — like the ability to sync with Pocket (so you can easily read saved web articles in more comfort, whenever you like) and support for the OverDrive ebook lending platform (which is widely used by Australian libraries)-- are still in place.

As it succeeds, as I am sure it will, it will expand its titles and supported devices and, if it can develop a sane remittance model for the publishers, it could well take command of the eBook lending landscape.

Also, you may not be able to use the Amazon Instant Video app, and the Kindle app from the Kindle Fire which supports Amazon's eBook lending library, personal documents, and other advanced features doesn't work.