Rakuten Overdrive released its end of year report yesterday. The company now supports over 43,000 libraries and schools worldwide, including 65 public library systems that each loaned over 1...
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Category: Library eBooks
Penguin Random House Dramatically Worsens License Terms for Library eBooks
PW reports that starting next month, Penguin Random House is changing its license terms for library ebooks from "insanely expensive" to "ridiculously expensive and short-lived". As of October 1,...
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Toronto Public Library Hits Milestone with 20 Million eBooks Borrowed
The major publishers may be blocking libraries from buying ebooks, but that has only slowed adoption; it didn't stop the Toronto Public Library from reaching a new milestone. The TPL...
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Updated: Tor Books is Now Windowing Library eBooks
Tor Books has just demonstrated that the decision makers at Macmillan are surprisingly ignorant on the basic principles of microeconomics in general. Earlier this weeks Tor Books informed libraries...
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Readers Have Borrowed More Than 1 Billion Books Through OverDrive
Overdrive just announced on their blog that they have loaned a billion ebooks since they first started lending ebooks in 2003. From OverDrive: One billion. It’s a defining number...
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“The Whistler” by John Grisham was the Most Popular Library eBook Last Year
A couple weeks back Amazon revealed that the most read Kindle ebook this past holiday season was Dan Brown's Origin, and now Overdrive says it was quite the popular...
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Google Added Local Library eBook Listings to Search Results
Google just made it a little bit easier to check ebooks out of your local library. Google announced today that they have integrated public library catalogs into their search...
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Draft2Digital Now Distributes to Overdrive
Draft2Digital has just announced that they can now distribute ebooks to OverDrive: We’re pleased to announce that, starting today, Draft2Digital now distributes to OverDrive, enabling our authors to place their...
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RBdigital Offers eBooks, Audiobooks, and Magazines in a Single App
OverDrive's Libby app lets you read ebooks or listen to audiobooks, but the RBDigital app from Recorded Books goes one better. Recorded Books has just announced the release of...
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The Problem with Hoopla’s Pay-Per-Loan Model
Publishers like HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have recently shown increased interest in the pay per loan library ebook services offered by Freading and Hoopla, but at the same time...
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HarperCollins Sign Pay-per-Lend Agreements with Freading, Hoopla, OverDrive
When it comes to library ebooks, the usual way for libraries to acquire them is to pay for licenses for individual copies and then loan the ebooks in what...
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UK Library Readers to Get Free Access to Harry Potter eBooks
The twentieth anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is coming up in a few short weeks. The Bookseller reports that Pottermore is marking the occasion by making the...
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20,000 Libraries are Participating in the World’s Largest Book Club
Big Library Read is a world-wide book club run by OverDrive. The first iteration launched last summer, and the second annual BLR launched today. The first book selected for BLR is The...
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UK Govt Will Now Pay Authors Each Time Their eBook is Loaned From a Public Library
It is a common practice in Europe and in many of Great Britain's former colonies for public libraries to pay authors each time one of their books is loaned...
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Baker & Taylor Launches Library eBook App for Your Web Browser
Baker & Taylor's Axis 360 platform is one of the lesser known library ebook providers. Launched in 2011, it originally supplied ebooks in Blio format before giving up and...
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