The World s Largest Collection of eBooks. According to Woody Palasek, executive vice president, field operations, the company is digitizing 30 to 50 books per day. Macmillan Reference Ltd. St. Martin s Press, McGraw Hill, MIT Press, and many others. Publishers receive a negotiated payment per book purchased and are provided with usage data on what titles, chapters, paragraphs, and sentences are being referenced. Frank Urbanowski, director of The MIT Press, said, This new service will provide us with additional distribution channels and revenue streams through the sale of eBooks.
Users can search for eBooks by author, subject, title, key word, phrase, or idea.
An eBook may be checked out, viewed online, or viewed offline by downloading to the user s computer using Knowledge Station software. Knowledge Station, a Windows client viewer, may be downloaded free from netLibrary, and allows users to view and annotate text with highlights, notes, and bookmarks. If a book is already checked out, users can queue for it and be notified when it is available. Like a traditional library, netLibrary s patent-pending technology ensures that only one person can use one eBook copy at a time. If a library or organization has purchased 10 copies of one title, then only 10 people at a time may view that title.