{"id":4924,"date":"2011-02-25T10:47:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T09:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2011-02-25T10:47:55","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T09:47:55","slug":"internet-archive-partners-with-150-libraries-to-launch-an-e-book-lending-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/25\/internet-archive-partners-with-150-libraries-to-launch-an-e-book-lending-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Archive Partners With 150 Libraries to Launch an E-Book Lending Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/\">Internet Archive<\/a>, in conjunction with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/libraries\">150 libraries<\/a>, has rolled out a new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openlibrary.org\/borrow\">80,000 e-book lending collection<\/a> today on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openlibrary.org\/\">OpenLibrary.org<\/a>. This means that library patrons with an OpenLibrary account can check out any of these e-books.<\/p>\n<p>The hope is that this effort will help libraries make the move to digital book lending. &#8220;As readers go digital, so are our libraries,&#8221; says Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"more\">\n<p>This new digital lending system will allow library patrons to borrow up to 5 e-books at a time for up to 2 weeks. People can choose to borrow either an in-browser version (that can be read via the Internet Archives&#8217;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/improved_reading_of_free_e-books_as_the_open_libra.php\">e-reader<\/a> that we covered here last December) or a PDF or ePUB version. The latter will allow readers to access the borrowed books from a number of devices, including iPads, laptops, and libraries&#8217; own computers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/7aawXUt375wbuJ8oQfZ_m_GEor-vb5Nv1cWkw0VmUBNbHExGcASvvPnZYAh0-SpmRiulDsYguqmUoSJoQ1Yu=s220\" alt=\"open_library_ss.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"117\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lending e-books has proven to be quite complicated, for both individual book owners but certainly for libraries. As we have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/will_your_local_library_lend_e-books_or_can_they.php\">written here before<\/a>, some publishers have been fearful of the move to digital books, let alone the move to e-book sharing, refusing to allow their books to be made available for lending or only allowing loans with certain on-site restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The publishers participating in this OpenLibrary project, including Cursor and OR Books, have a very different take on the future of libraries, publishing, and lending. &#8220;Libraries are our allies in creating the best range of discovery mechanisms for writers and readers &#8211; enabling open and browser-based lending through the Internet Archive means more books for more readers, and we&#8217;re thrilled to do our part in achieving that,&#8221; says Richard Nash, founder of Cursor.<\/p>\n<p>As a number of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/amazon_forces_kindle_lending_club_to_rebrand_-_now.php\">startups<\/a> spring up to take advantage of the lending options available on Kindles and Nook readers, it&#8217;s good to see public libraries also moving to embrace e-book lending.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/m.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/internet_archive_partners_with_150_libraries_to_la.php\" target=\"_blank\">readwriteweb<\/a>)<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Internet Archive, in conjunction with\u00a0150 libraries, has rolled out a new\u00a080,000 e-book lending collection today on\u00a0OpenLibrary.org. This means that library patrons with an OpenLibrary account can check out any of these e-books. The hope is that this effort will help libraries make the move to digital book lending. &#8220;As readers go digital, so are our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[180,75],"class_list":["post-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-url","tag-ebooks","tag-readwriteweb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}