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Google Play Books, formerly Google eBooks, is an ebook digital distribution service operated by Google, part of its Google Play product line. Users can purchase and download ebooks and audiobooks from Google Play, which offers over five million titles, with Google claiming it to be the "largest ebooks collection in the world".
In March 2011, HarperCollins announced it would distribute ebooks to libraries with DRM enabled to delete the item after being lent 26 times. [84] [85] HarperCollins has drawn criticism of this plan, in particular its likening of ebooks, which are purely digital, to traditional paperback trade books, which wear over time. [86] [87]
Once books are checked out, the app serves as an ebook reader. [2] A reviewer for Literary Review of Canada praised Libby's management of reading data, including books read and books in queue for reading. [3] A reviewer for Time called Libby one of the best apps of 2018. [4] Popular Mechanics named Libby as one of the best apps of the 2010s. [5]
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Foliate can browse the OPDS feed of Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks and Feedbooks, and can automatically download royalty free ebooks from these sources. [4] It is also possible to manually add other OPDS sources. Foliate supports speech synthesis using eSpeak, eSpeakNG or Festival, albeit without automatic detection of the content language.
Digital Editions is a successor to the Acrobat eBook Reader application. [1] Windows and Mac OS X versions of Adobe Digital Editions were released on 19 June 2007. The current Apple iOS version of the app has a one star and two star rating.
As of 2014, over 90% of U.S. public libraries offer ebook lending. [1] Many of those libraries use Rakuten OverDrive, which provides ebook access to about 43,000 libraries and schools in 76 countries. [2] Overdrive is the only eLending service that works with the Amazon Kindle, but that functionality is limited to U.S. library readers only. [3]
Feedbooks was a digital library and cloud publishing service for both public domain and original books founded in June 2007 and based in Paris, France. [1] The main focus of the web site is providing e-books with particularly high-quality typesetting in multiple formats, particularly EPUB, Kindle, and PDF formats.