New library platform from eBooks Corporation
The eBook Library from eBooks Corporation will target “select university and research libraries in September 2003 and will be officially launched in January 2004,” according to an announcement at BookExpo America. More details:
EBL will feature Non-linear Lending(TM), a multiple-concurrent lending model which allows a single title to be checked out simultaneously by multiple patrons. Other features of EBL include digital interlibrary lending, unique eBook reserve functionality and lending by the chapter. eBook titles can be browsed online and then downloaded to a desktop, laptop, or hand-held device for use offline. The system will allow patrons to perform full text searches across their library’s entire eBook collection.
One hopes that the EBL will be more respectful of the public domain than some other library-related companies have been.
(Found via eBookAd.)
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