But what about librarians and other educators who want to go beyond a read-only experience and enable their students to easily create, share—and even market—their very own slick, tablet-ready graphical ebooks and mobile apps?
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Rather than being on shush patrol, you'll find librarians teaching eReader classes, performing storytimes and early literacy activities, helping jobseekers, playing video games with teens…you get the picture. Delete the scoop?
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A Pretty Good Solution To The Problem Of E-Book Lending (Or At Least I Think So)ForbesThat quirk of human psychology helps explain why today, five years after the launch of the Amazon Kindle and three years after the introduction of Apple's iPad,... Delete the scoop?
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Here’s my conclusion: ebook models make us choose. And I don’t mean choosing which catalog, or interface, or set of contract terms we want — though we do make those choices, and they matter. I mean that we choose which values to advance, and which to sacrifice. We’re making those values choices every time we sign a contract, whether we talk about it or not. Via Buffy J. Hamilton Delete the scoop?
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I want to break up with eBooks.Don’t get me wrong, eBooks is dead sexy and great arm candy at parties, as well as a magnet for attention and memorable...
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But what about librarians and other educators who want to go beyond a read-only experience and enable their students to easily create, share—and even market—their very own slick, tablet-ready graphical ebooks and mobile apps?
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Littleworth told the news source that under the current system, libraries are simply unable to afford as many licenses for DRM-protected eBooks as they would like due to budgetary restraints. Consequently, library patrons' ... Delete the scoop?
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Discoverability is the seven-syllable, tongue-twisting term bantered about publishing circles that supposedly represents the future of the industry.
Wondering .... What role do librarians have in the 'spreadability' of eBooks? Delete the scoop?
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Responding to what it calls “urgent member concerns,” the American Library Association’s Digital Content & Libraries Working Group this week released a brief informational report on the e-book market. Via Buffy J. Hamilton Delete the scoop?
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