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BookLender is an online book rental company, the first to offer flat rate rental-by-mail to customers in the United States. [1] [2] Established in 2000 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, it boasts an inventory of over 100,000 titles and more than 13,000 subscribers. [3] On June 8, 2007, the company announced that it had delivered its ...
Book rental companies having a subscription-based models where a monthly or periodic subscription fee is charged and members can rent a number of books based on the subscription. Book rental companies taking a fraction of book cost as rent. This is the most prevalent model in textbook and college book renting.
Users browse books online and have their choices home-delivered, rather than physically visiting a library to borrow a book. This e-commerce model is comparable to the video rental service provided Netflix. In 2009, online book rental was gaining popularity in India, with a number of websites offering free doorstep delivery for a small monthly fee.
Amazon (NAS: AMZN) just made its Amazon Prime service a little more, well, prime. The company has launched a digital-book lending library for Kindle and Kindle Fire owners who also subscribe to ...
E-book lending or elending is a practice in which access to already-purchased downloads or online reads of e-books is made available on a time-limited basis to others. It works around the digital rights management built into online-store-published e-books by limiting access to a purchased e-book file to the borrower, resulting in loss of access ...
CloudLibrary was created in 2011 by 3M as part of its library systems unit as a competitor to OverDrive, Inc.; in 2015 3M sold the North American part of that unit to Bibliotheca Group GmbH, a company founded in 2011 that was funded by One Equity Partners Capital Advisors, a division of JP Morgan Chase.
The postal workers union is sounding the alarm about changes to Brockton's mail-processing facility. A public meeting on the issue is set for March 6.
The U.S. Postal Service said on Friday it will not hike stamp prices in January for the first time since January 2022 after a series of price hikes in recent years. USPS in July hiked the price of ...