The Bexar County, Texas, Bibliotech library system may not have pioneered the idea of an all-digital library but it has become the poster child for the idea. Bibliotech has...
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Category: Libraries
HarperCollins’ Audiobooks Now Available Though bibliotheca’s cloudLibrary
Back in June HarperCollins was one of several major publishers that started distributing their ebooks and audobooks to libraries through pay-per-use services like Freading. Now the publisher is adding...
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Jisc Now Offers Digital Textbooks
Digital library vendor Jisc has found a back door to shove institutional- or site-licensed digital textbooks through. Last week Jisc announced a partnership with Bibliotech, the next doomed digital...
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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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This Machine Makes It Easy for Archivists and Librarians to Clean Thousands of Books (video)
Last week the Boston Public library tweeted a 14-second clip of their book cleaning machine in operation. A bunch of sites shared that clip, but it doesn't show nearly...
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BiblioTech’s Newest Bookless Library Will Also be the Largest
Since 2013 Bexar County's Bibliotech digital library has opened two local branches as well as kiosks in a hospital, bus terminal, and on local military bases. San Antonio Express...
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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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Kobo Now Beta-Testing Distribution to OverDrive
When it comes to distributing indie press titles to public libraries, OverDrive is pretty much it for ebooks. OD is the market, and there are only a few ways to...
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49 Libraries Each Made More Than 1 Million Digital Loans in 2016
OverDrive's ebook app may be so painful to use that they built and are beta-testing a new replacement, but that hasn't stopped four dozen libraries from setting new records...
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