epubBlog » OverDrive http://www.epubbooks.com/blog Information & Resources on the ePub eBook Standard Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:03:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 EPUB books can now be borrowed from the library http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20090117/epub-books-can-now-be-borrowed-from-the-library/ http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/20090117/epub-books-can-now-be-borrowed-from-the-library/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:00:54 +0000 Mike Cook http://www.epubbooks.com/blog/?p=389 Post by www.epubbooks.com

EPUB books can now be borrowed from the library

]]> CLEVNET Library LogoI Twittered (twitter.com/epub) about the Cleveland Public Library press release when it was first announced, and David from TeleRead has also written a post on this. “This” being that the Cleveland library is the first library to offer up eBook downloads in the EPUB format! Naturally this is great news for the EPUB fans, but more importantly it’s great for the general public at large.

OverDrive are providing them and another 8,500 libraries access to EPUB books for borrowing. We must also presume that as OverDrive increase their number of EPUB titles , all these libraries will be offered them too.

As TeleRead mentions, it would be great if they could also offer their books via popular iPhone readers such as Stanza which could then encourage younger readers to get back to books.

I expect 8,500 libraries is a good coverage across the U.S. but as an European I hope our libraries can strike a similiar deal. If both sides of the big pond can offer up these services then there’s potential for more countries to follow suit, which would be particularly useful for those where moving a ton of paper books around can be quite difficult and expensive.

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