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The Demise of the Patient Librarian

Digital Book World has the story of the meeting between ALA president Maureen Sullivan and the AAP.  One just knew that it wasn’t going to be all smiles and giggles. Yet some of the responses perplex...

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Penguin E-Books Waddling into Libraries

Penguin has announced that they will begin selling e-books to libraries across the nation by the end of the year.  Penguin ran a pilot with New York and Brooklyn public libraries this summer, and it...

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Oyster = Netflix for eBooks

A new service, Oyster, will be launching its services soon.  It plans to be the Netflix for ebooks, offering ebooks on a subscription model. Of course, we know little about Oyster and its content yet....

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National E-Book Survey Results

You are going to want to take a look at the results of a survey conducted by OverDrive and ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy.  The survey was conducted during June and July of this year...

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2012 EBook Usage Reports

Now in its third year, the Library Journal and School Library Journal EBook Usage Report for 2012 has just been released.  The report looks separately at public libraries, academic libraries and...

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E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published their annual e-book guide to privacy.  The 2012 guide looks at the most popular e-book platforms, including Google Books, Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Sony,...

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Reading Habits in Different Communities

Pew Internet has done a new study about reading habits.  They looked at American populations in urban, suburban and rural areas and compared them.  They asked about several categories: Purposes for...

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Amazon Buys GoodReads

I have to admit that I yelped this morning when news of the acquisition of GoodReads by Amazon crossed my newsfeeds. The yelp was one of pure dismay.  You see, I use GoodReads on a daily basis.  Not...

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E-Lending in Public Libraries in England

Last year, a panel of experts has worked with William Sieghart to review recommendations for public libraries lending e-materials.  The report is specifically for public library lending in the UK and...

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DPLA Described

Library Journal has an article about the Digital Public Library of America that will quickly bring you up to date on the progress they have made so far.  The DPLA is an effort to create “an open,...

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Follow BEA Online

Publisher’s Weekly is doing a great job of capturing a lot of the discussions at Book Expo this week.  They are especially interesting if you are following e-book trends.  So far, articles about...

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Embracing Ebooks or Not

The results from a study conducted for Booknet Canada, a nonprofit organization that tracks book sales and trends, demonstrate that parents, children and teens continue to prefer paper books for...

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Bluefire Reader

I’ve long been a fan of Bluefire Reader, using it to read e-galleys of new books coming out on my iPad.  Somehow I missed that Bluefire is now available for the PC as well.  It does require that you...

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