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Public statement covering the Society's response to the Seighart review, PLR and renumeration on e-books Delete the scoop?
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Apple Inc. executives were prepared to abandon plans to enter the e-book business on the eve of the company’s 2010 debut of the iPad, Penguin Group USA Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Shanks testified in the U.S. Delete the scoop?
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Musings on ways libraries could lend e-books w/o needing them to be returned. Delete the scoop?
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Article discusses option for PDA (patron driven acquisition) for public library e-books. PDA is used by some university libraries in the UK at present, although this isn't noted in the article Delete the scoop?
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Telegraph.co.uk Children's progress hindered by e-books and Kindles, charity warns Telegraph.co.uk Joan Brady, the Whitbread-prize winning author, has previously said it would be a “problem” if the surge in e-books comes to mean that children never...
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A novel (sorry for the pun) idea. Delete the scoop?
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Reviews advantages and disadvantages of e-books etc for children and learning Delete the scoop?
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Douglas County library service (Colorado) have issued their latest price comparison, showing what ebooks are available for them to "buy", and at what price. Their bone of contention is the higher p... Delete the scoop?
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All of the Big Six publishers have, for the first time, agreed to make e-books available to public library users. Delete the scoop?
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12% of e-book readers have borrowed an e-book from a library. Those who use libraries are pretty heavy readers, but most are not aware they can borrow e-books.
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Pew Internet research study findings Delete the scoop?
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Simon & Schuster to offer e-books to libraries Delete the scoop?
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Danish Research Library Association latest survey into e-books (2012) has been translated into English and can be downloaded here (goes direct to the pdf)
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A new future-focused digital supplement titled "Digital Content: What’s Next? Delete the scoop?
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I’m headed to BEA next week (I’m on the conference advisory board for the BEA Bloggers part of the conference), and will have a good three days of listening
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American position with the 6 big publishers Delete the scoop?
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Hachette announced Wednesday that it will make all of its ebooks, including new titles, available to libraries nationwide. New ebooks will be priced at three times the cost of the print version, but a library only has to buy a copy once.
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Ebooks made up 20% of the US consumer book industry in 2012, up from 15 ... Delete the scoop?
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Arguably, part of the problem that public libraries have faced in getting their e-lending role recognised is down to two key things. Firstly, although there are many glorious exceptions to this, ma... Delete the scoop?
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As part of an O'Reilly webcast last week, Andrew Savikas, CEO of Safari Books Online, described the benefits of running a subscription-based e-book service, which range from timing to royalty benefits. Delete the scoop?
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Hachette Book Group has announced that it will once again sell its frontlist ebook titles to libraries, beginning on May 8, 2013. Delete the scoop?
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Thousands of librarians are in town for the 100th annual meeting of the Texas Library Association at the Fort Worth Convention Center.
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Libraries in America are signing up to work with small publishers and independent authors to offer e-books via the library Delete the scoop?
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After more than a year of squabbling with the European Commission in an anti-trust case involving Apple's deals with five publishers that regulators called a conspiracy to fix the price of e-books, the last holdout might be close ... Delete the scoop?
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How do blind and partially sighted people read eBooks and what difference have they made to people's lives? Find out why eBooks have had a big impact, and wh...
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