Ebooks - Public Libraries Blog - Page 14

Amazon today launched a new program called KDP Select that will allow authors that self publish their ebooks through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program to participate in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library that launched last month. [Read more…]

Penguin issued a statement today saying that they had restored their ebooks to libraries earlier this morning.  They specifically pointed out that their titles can be checked out in the Kindle format.  New releases from Penguin will still not be available at libraries. [Read more…]

Penguin Group USA has stopped allowing libraries to lend out ebooks of their new titles according to an article at TheDigitalShift.

According to the article, Penguin stated that the reason for pulling the ebooks was due to “concerns about the security of our digital editions”.  They did not state specifically what security concerns they had. [Read more…]

The Salt Lake City Public Library system offers over 5,200 ebooks to its members.  The digital collection is incredibly popular and appears to be growing in popularity each day.

The big surprise is that the ebooks are more expensive than print books according to library spokeswoman, Julianne Hancock, in an article in the Deseret News. [Read more…]

The New York Public Library is the largest public library in the United States with over 6 million items in its physical collections.  Did you know they also offer the largest digital collection in the country with over 75,000 copies and more than 35,000 titles available for borrowing?  It’s especially impressive since Amazon has a competing program that allows you to borrow an ebook directly from Amazon.com without having to go to a library.  The list of borrowable Kindle Owners’ Lending Library ebooks only shows about 5,000 titles that you can download directly from Amazon to your Kindle.  So the NYPL currently has that beat by about 30,000 titles.    You can find and checkout all those ebooks at ebooks.nypl.org. [Read more…]