Information Industry News and Resources from Gary Price
via a Programmable Web Post by Curtis Chen: The developer site is still a bit raw, with some broken links and less-than-polished documentation, but the data available is quite comprehensive. The OpenBook API offers not only information on HarperCollins authors and books in US and international markets, but also author tour information. Want to know [...]
From an Article by Michael Kelley at Library Journal: Librarians’ passionate advocacy of our titles is vital to our efforts and we remain committed to keeping our ebooks available in the library channel,” said Josh Marwell, Harper’s president of sales. Marwell said that the 26-loan cap remains a work in progress, but no other business [...]
From The New York Times: Ms. [Maja] Thomas [a senior vice president of the Hachettte Book Group, in charge of its digital division] of Hachette says: “We’ve talked with librarians about the various levers we could pull,” such as limiting the number of loans permitted or excluding recently published titles. She adds that “there’s no [...]
Last week we posted that HarperCollins was going to make 500o backlist titles available to readers via a new print-on-demand (POD) partnership with On Demand Books and their Espresso Book Machine. HC has made a news release and an open letter to writers available on their web site. Direct to “Open Letter to Authors” By [...]
During the just concluded ALA 2011 Conference in New Orleans the ALA OITP (Office of Information Technology Policy) eBook Task Force talked with senior HarperCollins staff*** about a number of important issues. The discussion came about after the HarperCollins team suggested that both groups get together during the OITP eBook Task Force Business Meeting. What [...]
Note: The Following is a Portion of Cindy Orr’s Monthly Post on the OverDrive Digital Library Blog. You can read the full text here. Last year, the Council of the American Library Association (ALA) passed a resolution calling for the creation of a Presidential Task Force to study the issues of digital rights management and [...]
In an Information Today NewsBreak, Hane takes a look at the HarperCollins/Library eBook story and provides a useful roundup with links to many useful documents. Btw, here are three collections of non-library/non-info industry press about what some refer to as #HCOD (HarperCollins/OverDrive) that we posted on INFOdocket. We have another collection of articles that we [...]
Steve Potash appeared on Bloomberg Television earlier today and the nearly four minute is now accessible online. You can watch the segment on the Bloomberg web site It runs about 4 minutes. As you might expect the HarperCollins story is touched on as is GBS. In a nutshell: + “Since Christmas, we’ve seen almost 100 [...]
In addition to her public comments yesterday, ALA President Roberta Stevens also sent a letter to association members. Her Are Two Paragraphs From Her Letter: First and foremost, I want to thank you for your patience. I held back on a public statement on the recent decision by Harper Collins to restrict the lending of [...]
All but one of the articles linked in this post were published on May 7th and May 8th. + “Open Letter to HarperCollins” (From the San Rafael Public Library, via Librarian in Black) + “Maine libraries upset about HarperCollins’ eBook lending limits” (via The Forecaster, Portland Maine) Maine InfoNet Executive Director James Sanborn said the [...]
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