Internet Archive Library Partnership Develops Joint eBook Collection To...
The Internet Archive and 150 partnering libraries announced the launch of a traditional in-library lending model for a pooled collection of over 80,000 eBooks. Yesterday the pooled collection was...
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Where Do Libraries Fit in the Ebook Ecosystem? | Digital Book World The rise of the 99-cent Kindle e-book – CNET News The New Economics of the University Press — A Report from the AAUP Ohio System...
View ArticleCIL Conference – Empowering the Reader in a Digital World
This CIL session was presented by Chad Mairn, Information Services Librarian at St. Petersberg College and Al Carlson, System Administrator for the Tampa Bay Library Consortium. Al Carlson: Library...
View ArticleOverDrive releases the Media console app for BlackBerry
Public, school, and college libraries now provide direct EPUB eBook downloads on BlackBerry® mobile devices with the free OverDrive® Media Console™ app for BlackBerry. Users at more than 13,000...
View ArticleOverDrive Apps for Android and iOS Updated
From an OverDrive blog post: OverDrive has made some enhancements to the apps for Android and iOS. They include: OverDrive Media Console for Android (v2.2) Sepia display option for eBooks...
View ArticleNo Way! Kindle owners CAN borrow books from public libraries
I never thought I’d see the day! Great news Amazon and OverDrive. News release from Kindle here. From a Publishers Weekly article: Amazon announced this morning that Kindle owners will soon be able...
View ArticleOpen Access eBooks, Part 3
From Eric Hellman’s Go To Hellman blog. Please offer your comments to Eric at the Go To Hellman blog. Here’s the third section of my draft of a book chapter for a book edited by No Shelf Required‘s...
View ArticleOpen Access eBooks, part 4, by Eric Hellman
From Eric Hellman’s blog, Go To Hellman – The fourth section my book chapter on Open Access eBooks looks at theier relationship with libraries. I previously posted the Introduction, What does Open...
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Sorry for the long list, I was out last week and didn’t get to post this. News: The E-Reader Effect – Inside Higher Ed Ten must-have iPad apps for readers, by Jane Litte | TeleRead Kindle/Nook Touch...
View ArticleReadium Open Source Initiative Launched to Accelerate Adoption of EPUB 3
ACCESS, Adobe, Barnes & Noble, Copia, Google, Kobo/Rakuten, O’Reilly, Samsung, Sony, others support project to advance universal digital publishing format New York, NY, February 13, 2012 –The...
View ArticleOverDrive eBook app for the iPhone – Sneak Peak
Today OverDrive posted a Video Sneak Preview of their upcoming eBook app for iPhone. Check it out at the following: Digital Library Blog Post:...
View ArticleOhio’s Public Library eBook Project
I attended the Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians Conference today and one of the speakers was Nicole Merriman from the State Library of Ohio. Â Nicole provided details on the Ohio eBook...
View ArticleTwo studies released – Library Use of eBooks & eBook Impact on Publishers
There have been lots of surveys floating around about eBooks this past year. Two of those surveys released results in the last couple of weeks. The first was done by the Primary Research Group,...
View ArticleOverDrive apps for iPhone and Android enable direct library downloads
OverDrive (www.overdrive.com) has released apps for iPhone® and Android™ that enable users to download library eBooks and audiobooks directly to their devices for the first time. The free apps...
View Article200% increase in eBook checkouts from OverDrive virtual libraries….and more...
From an OverDrive press release: Libraries and schools worldwide were at the forefront of the eBook boom in 2010, as patrons and students downloaded millions of digital books for iPhone®,...
View ArticleOverDrive Updates Media Console apps for iPhone and Android, enables...
Yesterday, OverDrive released updates to the OverDrive Media Console apps for iPhone (iOS) and Android, which include the addition of one-click, automatic downloads and other enhancements to user...
View ArticleTOC – EPUB 3 Update
EPUB 3 update panel included Robert Kasher (Book Masters), Keith Fahlgren (Threepress Consulting Inc.), George Kerscher (Daisy Consortium), Bill Kasdorf (Apex Content Solutions) EPUB 3 was just...
View ArticleTOC – Publisher CTO Panel, the future of ebook technology, TeleRead
Summary of Tools of Change session, reprinted in full from Teleread.com by Paul Biba Bill Godfrey (Elsevier), Rich Rothstein (HarperCollins Publishers), Andrew Savikas (O’Reilly Media, Inc.)Moderated...
View ArticleOverDrive Media Console app for iPad – direct library eBook & audiobook...
From an OverDrive Press Release: Public, school, and college libraries now provide direct eBook downloads on the iPad® with the free OverDrive® Media Console™ app. The optimized app enables users...
View ArticleSpringer eBooks now also available in the Google eBookstore
Springer, who has existing eRetail partnerships with Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, and others, announced this week the addition of the Google eBookstore for Springer eBook titles. From their press...
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