Sentences with phrase «users lend some books»

Barnes & Noble, like Amazon, lets users lend some books to other Nook owners.

While both devices let users lend books to friends and both platforms support library - lending, the Nook Tablet also supports the popular ePub format that's used in a number of other stores and free book collections.

Not exact matches

When you lend a book out you can not ever lend it out again and many users are not aware of this.

Some popular e-reading platforms like Nook and Kindle do offer users the option to lend out books for a limited period of time, but Ownshelf goes a step further by giving readers a central hub to swap and discover books on their own terms.

Furthermore, publishers can set the price on ebook sales, as well as charge a «lending fee» and determine the number of days that the book is in the user's hands.

Instead, devices such as Kindle have locked down books and made it impossible for users to lend books that they have bought.

ebookfling makes its money from the virtual credit system where users who do not lend books but want to be lent books can pay a few dollars to request books from other users.

eBook lending is a relatively new phenomenon and basically allows a user to lend out a purchased book for up to 14 days.

Any Kindle book that has lending enabled can be loaned by one Kindle user to another for 14 days.

Many users are obviously gravitating towards Amazon Prime and the book lending sites are not seeing enough new blood being added to make up for all the best books expiring off their system.

Within the new interface, users can select from three different visual themes, can adjust their lending periods, and can alter their account settings to pre-select different categories of books.

Amazon, like Barnes & Noble, lets users lend some Kindle books to other Kindle or Kindle app users.

Lynch also said that Nook users who lend books will be granting the specific e-book's license for two weeks to another user.

Amazon has just launched its lending library service in the UK, which lets Amazon Prime users borrow one book a month.

Back in October, we heard from Amazon that Kindle users (on all platforms) would soon be able to lend their books to each other.

Like the Nook Color, users will have access to all the magazines and newspapers B&N offers, as well a wide variety of book lending options the company has made available (also explained in the video).

The purchased books are stored in the cloud and are accessible to all devices and applications linked to your account.You can also keep local copies of the books and you never have to worry about space issues.You can also lend a book to a friend.You can also read e-books loaned from the public libraries.The users have to download the e-book to their computers and then transfer it using third party software unlike kindles.You can download books using wifi only because nook does not offer 3G.

Amazon also has a lending program that allows you borrow select books from other users or from eBook Club websites like Lendingebooks.com

Lending capability: If you have a Nook, you can lend a book for a period of two weeks, to another Nook user, or one having an iPhone or Blackberry with Barnes and Noble software application.

Hachette Book Group eBooks will follow a one - copy / one - user lending model, and there will be no checkout or term limit for the titles on the OverDrive platform.

Users now have the ability to borrow, lend and now buy books!

Books can only be lent out once and many websites have sprung up to connect users with each other.

Although Estrovich refers to the transaction as a purchase, the books are being offered for a one year term on a one copy / one user lending model.

The libraries buy a copy of the book and then lend it to users over and over.

We have a community of 16,000 + users at http://www.BookLending.com who are leveraging Kindle's book lending feature (ebook «owners» can lend a book one time only for 14 days) to create a crowdsourced lending library of sorts.

Nothing wrong with book borrowers and library users, but I can't afford to subsidize the lending program anymore.

By default, not every book that has lending enabled for Amazon or Barnes and Noble is entered into the sytstem unless a specific user claimed it

Some users might opt for Amazon simply to have the security of borrowing or lending a book a year or 10 from now.

Sony also said it's partnering with OverDrive, a company that distributes electronic books to libraries, so Reader users will be able to «check out» free digital library books that expire at the end of the lending period.

Amazon does allow users to lend some books — far shy of their entire catalog — to other Kindle users, but every stage of the lending process seems to actively hinder book - sharing.

Finally, the Nook platform has had an edge in that it allows you lend books to other Nook owners or Nook app users.

Only the Kindle DX supports PDF files, he noted, pointing out that users can borrows books from public libraries with digital lending programs, but the vast majority of those libraries support both e.pub and.

But, the lending happen all in the computer, so we are unsure if users are really reading the books or just browsing and leaving without using.

For another, you can lend friends the books you buy, simply by sending the book to a user's e-mail address.

When I share a book with another Kindle user I shouldn't be able to read it myself (as with a physical book), but when they return it I should be able to lend it out to other friends with Kindle devices.

The Nook allows you to use a lending feature called LendMe to send a book to another user for two weeks.

Amazon is using the Paperwhite to launch the Kindle Lending Library in the UK (one free title every month) but there's still no public library lending (one of the strongest features of Kindle's competitors) and you can't lend books to other Kindle users for 14 days, as in the US.

You talk about how it justifies the $ 10 ebook price and increases sales because users feel they get more value by being able to lend their books once.

To promote such decisions, EBSCO takes the publisher's suggested list price and passes it through to any library without a markup, if the lending model is one - book, one - user.

If you saw something you were curious about, you could request to borrow it — users had the ability to authorize each request before the book was lended.

Actually, a Kindle owner can only lend a book to another user one time.

A number of publishers, such as Osprey Publishing (parent of Angry Robot), F+W Media, and O'Reilly Media, make books available without DRM, but this does not translate to the library channel, which relies on DRM as the mechanism to control one of its quintessential functions — the loan — as well as to impose the one - book, one - user lending model.

Via the API, Lendle could figure out which books were lendable or not (Amazon leaves this decision up to the publishers, and users can only lend a book for 14 days to other users).

Lendle users found it a nearly essential service for those looking to lend and borrow their purchased Kindle books.

Even if none of your friends spring for a Nook, LendMe may come in handy: Barnes & Noble says you can lend books to users of its reader apps for Windows, Mac, and iPhone / iPod Touch, and that it's extending lending to readers for BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Mobile.

Other distinctive features include time - limited lending of books between users of the Nook platform, which includes software that runs on a variety of mobile devices, including Apple's iPad.

The LendMe feature that B&N is becoming known for is intact in this reading application and users will be able to lend books directly from the iPad.

MSNBC reports that some users have bought more books after signing up for Lendle and other e-book lending services.

Amazon is allowing Kindle users to lend a book to a mate, but the UK Publishers Association reckons e-book borrowers should get down the library.

Yep, I remember very well the misguided mob who went after sites facilitating legitimate Kindle book lending between users (via the Kindle site, NOT as in pirated copies) and I had to quickly back away from a couple of groups I was on because the mob wasn't even interested in hearing how misguided they were at the time.