{"id":18979,"date":"2013-03-06T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=18979"},"modified":"2013-03-02T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T17:55:39","slug":"why-we-cant-we-get-some-of-your-favorite-ebooks-for-download-on-wilbor-overdrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/why-we-cant-we-get-some-of-your-favorite-ebooks-for-download-on-wilbor-overdrive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we can&#8217;t we get some of your favorite eBooks for download on WILBOR (Overdrive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While working at the reference desk,\u00a0the librarians at the Davenport Public Library\u00a0have many questions from patrons about\u00a0the titles and authors that are available through our eBook catalog, WILBOR.\u00a0 Did you know there are\u00a0many titles that are not available as eBooks for library patrons?\u00a0 <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18987\" alt=\"Locked book\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Locked-book.jpg?resize=98%2C108&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"98\" height=\"108\" \/>Do you also know that we cannot buy eBooks from many of the biggest publishers because they refuse to sell or license eBooks to libraries?\u00a0\u00a0We want to offer as many eBooks as we can to our patrons, however the publishers&#8217; policies are preventing us from doing so.<\/p>\n<p>A library, unlike a regular person, cannot pay Amazon or Barnes and Noble for an eBook and then lend it out to our patrons. \u00a0To provide digital rights management (the thing that keeps pirates from pirating the eBook file) we have to pay a third party vendor, Overdrive, to purchase our eBooks.\u00a0\u00a0Our purchasing power is diminishing in the digital world, meaning we can&#8217;t get certain titles for you at all, or we can&#8217;t afford to buy all the titles we should have available.<\/p>\n<p>Please know that the Davenport Public Library\u00a0is committed to advocating for a change to these policies!<\/p>\n<p>Below is a listing of a few publishers who\u00a0currently refuse to sell eBooks to libraries or only provide\u00a0a limited number of titles:<\/p>\n<p>-Macmillan Publishers<\/p>\n<p>-Simon &amp; Schuster<\/p>\n<p>-Hachette Book Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While working at the reference desk,\u00a0the librarians at the Davenport Public Library\u00a0have many questions from patrons about\u00a0the titles and authors that are available through our eBook catalog, WILBOR.\u00a0 Did you know there are\u00a0many titles that are not available as eBooks for library patrons?\u00a0 Do you also know that we cannot<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/why-we-cant-we-get-some-of-your-favorite-ebooks-for-download-on-wilbor-overdrive\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1475,2217,2218],"class_list":["post-18979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-ebooks","tag-ereaders","tag-tablets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-4W7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18979"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19039,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions\/19039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}