E-book lending is one such feature that has seen a rise in the past year, thanks to programs from Barnes & Noble, Amazon and other players. The space can be broken into two business models: the consumer model, which serves casual e-book users, and the library model, more geared toward schools, universities and governments.
In the consumer space, noteworthy programs include:
The library model is slightly more complicated, and there are systems in place that work quite well for the consumer market that don’t translate to the library world. For example, in the consumer space, an e-book can generally only be lent to one person at a time. But libraries are in need of multiuser models. Trying to force a one-user model for fiction into a library, for example, is not useful to a library with 30-plus patrons trying to access the same content.
Amazon had partnered with OverDrive, an e-book and audiobook distributor, to deliver an e-book lending service to 11,000 libraries in the U.S.
Amazon had partnered with OverDrive, an e-book and audiobook distributor, to deliver an e-book lending service to 11,000 libraries in the U.S.
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