MORE 'E-BOOKS' POSTS
GlueJar Founder and CEO Eric Hellman and is interviewed by Chris Kenneally in the latest “Beyond the Book” podcast from the Copyright Clearance Center. From the Blurb Posted on the Beyond the Book web page: We want to offer rightsholders the opportunity to get a one-time payment in exchange for making their books into Creative […]
eBooks: IFLA Releases Background Paper on e-Lending
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|From the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Announcement: As part of its work on the 2011-2012 Key Initiatives, the IFLA Governing Board appointed a working group to draft a background paper on digital lending. At its April meeting the IFLA Governing Board endorsed this paper, and we are now pleased to present a version […]
Harry Potter Titles Coming to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library and What This Should Mean For Libraries
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|That’s right folks, Amazon.com is announcing that in a few weeks all seven Harry Potter e-Books will be available from the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library (KOLL), a service that’s part of a subscription to Amazon Prime that also includes two day shipping, streaming video, etc. From the News Release: With traditional library lending, the library […]
Earlier today WAMU here in Washington broadcast a one hour discussion about e-books, e-readers, and bookstores. The Kojo Namdi Show welcomed: David Pogue, NY Times Lee Rainie, Pew Internet & American Life Project Bradley Graham, Co-owner of Politics and Prose Bookstore Direct to Streaming Audio (52 minutes) Text Summary and Video Extra See Also: Pew […]
Research Preprint: Are e-Readers Suitable Tools For Scholarly Work?
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|The following article has been accepted for publication in Online Information Review. Title Are e-Readers Suitable Tools For Scholarly Work? Authors Siegfried Schomisch GESIS Liebniz Institute for Social Sciences Maria Zens Philipp Mayr Source via arXiv Summary This paper aims to offer insights into the usability, acceptance and limitations of e-readers with regard to the […]
EBSCO Debuts Subscription-Based, Unlimited Access eBook Collection for Corporate Libraries
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|From the EBSCO News Release: The collection is available as an annual subscription with unlimited access to the content. [Clip] The BusinessCore collection includes 5,600 full text e-book titles from leading publishers. New titles will be added on a monthly basis. [Clip] Users can print, email and save chapters, or transfer them to a number […]
From an NFB News Release: With the assistance of the National Federation of the Blind, four blind patrons of the Free Library of Philadelphia—Denice Brown, Karen Comorato, Patricia Grebloski, and Antoinette Whaley—have filed suit [complaint and exhibits embedded below) against the library because they cannot access one of the library’s programs for which they are […]
Title Individual Title Requests in PDA Collections: A Small University Library’s Experience Author Debbi Dinkins Head of Technical Services Stetson University Source College and Research Libraries News May 2011 (Vol. 75 No. 3) From the Article In recent years, librarians have wrestled with e-book PDA programs. It seems as if most academic libraries have either […]
From a BISG News Release: E-book consumers’ preference for tablets is accelerating rapidly as dedicated e-readers drop in popularity, according to the Book Industry Study Group’s (BISG) closely watched Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. The second installment in Volume Three of the study shows that, over the course of just six months, consumers’ “first […]
From the Open Planets Foundation Blog: Automated identification of corresponding images and duplicate removal is a challenging task due to inconsistent quality of digitized book collections. Validating such collections based on qualitative criteria is a challenging endeavor according to the sheer amount of data that has to be processed. Traditional approaches seem to have peaked […]