Public libraries for ebooks

Services Public Libraries Extend your reach with a digital collection. K Schools Get your students reading more. Professional Meet your organization's unique reading needs. Publisher FAQs. Find a library or school that uses OverDrive. Blogs News Get Latest Updates. What can we help you find? Enter Search Words Search. What is Open Access? Open Access eBooks Yes, free eBooks!

DOAB This link opens in a new window. The National Academies Press This link opens in a new window. Spinger Open Access eBooks This link opens in a new window. Microsoft removed the eBooks from their customers' devices.

Even with the refund, many customers were angry that they had lost access to the content, which was the impetus behind their purchases in the first place. In order to access eBooks, customers would have had to have endorsed a terms-of-use agreement that explained Microsoft's right to remove access in the fine print.

People check these boxes all the time without reading or understanding them. The reason why payment for access does not equal digital ownership largely has to do with something called Digital Rights Management, or DRM, which Dingledy and Matamoros have defined as "technology that controls access to content on digital devices" 1.

DRM is neither the same as, nor a substitute for copyright, but it is a factor in a lot of copyright discussion. DRM is put in place to protect copyright holders in the digital age. It is very easy to duplicate and distribute infinite perfect, digital copies of a copyrighted work. On the one hand, authors, studios, companies, etc.

Others argue that DRM gives too much power to copyright owners and not enough to individuals who want to enjoy the works legally. This is barely scratching the surface of all the issues at work when it comes to copyright, DRM, and the information landscape. Seriously, Dingledy and Matamoros wrote a twenty-seven-page chapter in an entire book on this subject aimed only at librarians. Access codes for software purchases, paywalls on academic papers, limited monthly numbers of free news articles, and putting in your library card number and PIN to access a database are a few of the myriad examples of DRM at work that many of us experience every day.

Libraries and eBooks In the library environment, where one purchasing entity is trying to loan a large volume of eBooks, we have a related-but-distinct kettle of fish. As a librarian who works with our customers face-to-face, online, and over the phone, my experience has led me to understand that there are some truths about eBook lending that surprise our cardholders. These are the results of DRM issues colliding with the library model of lending titles to facilitate access to information:.

Why are these agreements so restrictive? Publishers have argued that library lending negatively impacts sales. Library advocates have argued that libraries serve to increase book sales. Specifically in response to the Macmillan embargo, Steve Potash, the CEO of Overdrive one of the eBook-lending juggernauts , has argued that Macmillan's claims about libraries impacting sales is false and unsupported by data.

What does this mean for libraries and digital content in the future? Macmillan's embargo is not an isolated incident for libraries, or even public libraries, or even eBooks. We are joining libraries around the country in dropping our subscription to Lynda Library over privacy issues. This past winter, the University of California system ended negotiations with Elsevier, a huge scholarly journal publisher, over issues of cost and access.

Leading the profession for the ninth consecutive year is Toronto Public Library, achieving a new record of serving readers with nearly 10 million digital titles circulated. Los Angeles Public Library retained the 1 public library position in the U. In addition, for the first time, students from four K school districts in accessed more than one million digital books with Sora , OverDrive's student reading app.

Contributing factors to this success include curation by librarians for each local market, reader delight using the Libby app, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion DEI programs, simultaneous community reading events, and public library-school connections.

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