eBook lending for libraries is still an issue for many reading consumers, and frustration on both sides of this issue still plagues both libraries and publishers. While libraries are concerned with meeting their budgets and offering relevant content in a way that keeps patrons looking to their libraries for material, publishers have to ensure that their authors are compensated … [Read more...] about Gale Virtual Reference Library Model Bases eBook Purchase on Usage
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3M and eBook Lending Make an Appearance at Frankfurt Book Fair
eBook lending is in a state of frustratingly slow adoption, which is still a vast improvement from the initial phases when libraries struggled to adopt digital lending in light of back list or empty virtual shelves. A number of measures and the work of companies like OverDrive and 3M have allowed huge inroads in the lending market, and as 3M Library System's Matt Tempelis … [Read more...] about 3M and eBook Lending Make an Appearance at Frankfurt Book Fair
Scribd eBook Subscription Plan Works Across Multiple Devices
In the six years since Trip Adler created a startup called Scribd, something incredible happened for digital publishing and ebooks: publishers finally found models they can work with to support ebook subscription-based reading. When companies like 24Symbols first launched in 2010, publishers were still wary of how their authors were going to be fairly compensated for letting … [Read more...] about Scribd eBook Subscription Plan Works Across Multiple Devices
Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries
Earlier this year, digital content distributor OverDrive partnered with publisher Sourcebooks in an experiment aimed at establishing concrete data on how readers respond in terms of book borrows and book sales to digital titles they check out from their libraries. Sourcebooks made one of its titles available to OverDrive's member libraries for a predetermined period of time … [Read more...] about Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries
Jamie Oliver Cookbook Offered as Value-Added Content to UK Libraries
Thanks to initiatives like the joint Sourcebooks and OverDrive project earlier this year, The Big Library Read, publishers are finally receiving concrete data on how library lending impacts their book sales. In what appeared on paper to be a bold move that cost the publisher and the author a great deal of money, Sourcebooks made one of its titles available to all of OverDrive's … [Read more...] about Jamie Oliver Cookbook Offered as Value-Added Content to UK Libraries
Swedish Company Revolutionizes EU eBook Lending
As US publishers and libraries still struggle to create a mutually beneficial yet fluid ebook lending model, Swedish company Atingo thinks they have the solution, one that has worked in several thousands public and school libraries in both Sweden and the UK. By recognizing ebooks not as a commodity that can be bought, sold, and consumed, but rather as a service item with … [Read more...] about Swedish Company Revolutionizes EU eBook Lending
KDP Select Launches Lending in Japan, What That Means for Authors
Amazon announced this week that it has now extended its Kindle ebook lending in a new market, Amazon.co.jp. The Japanese Kindle store will now let its users borrow ebooks that have been placed in Amazon's exclusive KDP Select program. Indie authors have often confused KDP Select with Amazon's typical ebook publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing. eBooks uploaded … [Read more...] about KDP Select Launches Lending in Japan, What That Means for Authors
School Libraries to Get eBook Boost with Follett, Hachette Deal
As teachers, librarians, and administrators prepare to start a new school year, many school professionals are probably thinking very seriously about budgets, especially where their technology dollars are concerned. One of the many frustrations that schools have felt in regard to technology has been the availability of e-readers and tablet computers, but a lack of lending … [Read more...] about School Libraries to Get eBook Boost with Follett, Hachette Deal
A Step Backward for UK eBook Lending
New concerns are growing among UK publishers over the fair compensation for their authors when it comes to library lending, specifically of ebooks. Unlike in the US where an author is only paid when a library purchases a particular title for lending from its catalog, under the UK law Public Lending Right, authors are compensated at each patron checkout, as well. But that might … [Read more...] about A Step Backward for UK eBook Lending
24Symbols Subscription-Based eBook Reading Gets a Boost from Zed
Some of the frustration surrounding ebook lending and digital borrowing may be getting a little help, as Spanish company 24symbols announced today that it has partnered with mobile device company Zed for global distribution. Described as the Netflix of books, 24symbols allows users to read content from a wide variety of publishers on internet-based computers and devices, … [Read more...] about 24Symbols Subscription-Based eBook Reading Gets a Boost from Zed