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...
View ArticlePenguin 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...
View ArticleOyster = 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....
View ArticleNational 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...
View Article2012 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...
View ArticleE-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,...
View ArticleReading 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...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
View ArticleE-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...
View ArticleDPLA 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,...
View ArticleFollow 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...
View ArticleEmbracing 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...
View ArticleBluefire 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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