MORE 'BOOKS' POSTS
From the NY Times Article, “In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books”: Forty-foot shipping containers stacked two by two are stuffed with the most enduring, as well as some of the most forgettable, books of the era. Every week, 20,000 new volumes arrive, many of them donations from libraries and […]
A New Service for Open Access Monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From a OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) News Release: OAPEN is pleased to announce a new service for Open Access monographs: the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB will provide a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under an Open Access business model, with links to the full texts […]
From the BISG (Book Industry Study Group): E-book consumers are increasing their purchase of books — both print and e-book formats — online and especially through in-app purchasing, and decreasing their use of brick-and-mortar stores, according to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s closely watched Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. The first installment in […]
From The Guardian: Pearson has reported a 72% surge in pre-tax profits to £1.15bn for 2011, with ebook sales at Penguin more than doubling and profits at FT Group, home to the Financial Times, up by about a quarter. [Clip] Total revenues across the group, which includes book publisher Penguin and educational holdings, grew 4% […]
Findings: How Are Librarians Using NetGalley? & Are You Using This Free Service?
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|If you’re unaware of NetGalley, it’s MORE than worthy of your time and its also a resource you will probably want to share with colleagues. This FREE service allows “professional readers” to register and receive digital galley’s of upcoming releases direct from publishers, marketing materials, title metadata, links, and other useful info. Here’s a quick […]
Via PW: J.K. Rowling has a new book…and it’s not for kids. The author has signed a world English deal with Little, Brown, selling print, e-book and audio rights to her first novel for adults. David Shelley, publisher of the Little Brown Book Group in the U.K., will be editing the work, which is currently untitled; […]
Booklist Adds Popular Backlist-Focused Blog "Shelf Renewal" to Growing List
Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From an ALA News Release: The highly regarded blog Shelf Renewal, dedicated to readers’ advisory focusing on backlist titles, has joined the Booklist family of blogs. The idea of the blog was born at ALA Annual Conference in 2008, when librarians Karen Kleckner Keefe and Rebecca Vnuk (now Booklist editor for reference and collection management) attended a […]
Some New Canadian Book, eBook, and Library Statistics Available in New National Book Count
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Public Libraries, Publishing
|From the National Post: The results of the second annual National Book Count were released on Thursday. For the second year in a row, book sales and libraries loans were tracked by a partnership of booksellers and library systems and combined by the National Reading Campaign, a group of “readers, parents, writers, editors, librarians, bookstore […]
From The Washington Examiner: Facing a dramatic slash to its book budget, the D.C. Public Library system is anticipating customer waits of up to six weeks for its popular materials if the D.C. Council does not restore funding next year. At an oversight hearing Wednesday conducted by Councilman Tommy Wells, about 50 library staff and […]
From a BML/ProQuest News Release: E-book sales are rising to offset a decline in physical book purchases, but only in volume. With the lower price points of e-books versus their print counterparts, the value of book sales is shrinking.” “The Books & Consumers survey shows that in the 48 weeks ending 27th November 2011, compared […]