American Libraries Magazine, the magazine of the American Library Association, delivers news and information about the library community. 
Making its publications available for the Barnes & Noble e-reader adds to Government Printing Office's small but growing catalog of electronic books. 
/PRNewswire/ -- This fall, students at colleges and universities with bookstores managed by Follett Higher Education Group will have another digital textbook option. Follett and Inkling Systems, Inc. 
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E-readers now offer options that appeal to retirees. "So far, I find Follett Shelf a mixed bag of nuts. Like many e-book products out there for libraries, for the moment I’m going to have to live with it if I think our students will be using it. But it is extremely important that as customers, we give e-book companies constant feedback and become advocates for the improvements needed for our students and readers. We need to push vendors to provide the best designs and materials possible at prices that are affordable for schools. We need to speak to them about recognizing some special needs of schools, like the fact that for class sets, we often need 100 copies of a novel for 3 weeks, and it’s not really feasible to purchase those for one time uses like that if the e-book pricing isn’t affordable. As more schools move to 1:1, BYOT policies, or tablet roll-outs, solving these problems is going to be vital to our libraries so our role in this process is very important..." Via Buffy J. Hamilton 
American Libraries Magazine, the magazine of the American Library Association, delivers news and information about the library community. 
E-books will be obsolete within five years. Crippled by territorial license restrictions, digital rights management, and single-purpose devices and file formats that are simultaneously immature a... 
The current ebook market climate is riddled with uncertainty as corporate giants do battle with each other for your digital content. 
If you value users’ freedom from restrictions in accessing movies, music, literature, and software, consider adding your voice to this international protest. 
We’ve all heard the argument that e-books should be cheaper because they don’t have printing, shipping, and warehousing costs. 
MILWAUKEE - A war over eBooks is brewing between Wisconsin libraries and book publishers. 
Almost a year after it was first announced 3M's Cloud Library e-book lending service is getting a proper rollout. |
Apple is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against it and five of the so-called “Big 6” U.S. 
Hachette To Test eBook Pilot Program At Libraries... Apple Inc. and five book publishers lost their bid to have a private antitrust suit over electronic book pricing dismissed. 
Though Follett’s ebooks have been around for years, I’m suddenly very enthused about the prospect of building a Follett ebook collection now that the company has released apps that let patrons read from among their 132,000 K–12 titles, online or off, on iPads and Android 3.0+ tablets. 
If you still think of libraries as a place only for books of the paper kind, think again. Libraries nationwide -- including those in the metro area and beyond -- are going digital with downloadable resources, from e-books to online language programs. 
By Jenny Shank Public libraries are a major hub for Americans to gain access to e-books and other digital resources. 
Amazon has licensed the right to lend digital versions of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series in the U.S., building up its e-book lending library despite the costs. Fraser Speirs announced an upcoming SMART Notebook app this past week via Twitter, and then the link went dead. Today, several blogs (including SMART’s own website) officially announced the a...
When my friend Greg Seaton brought up a problem he saw with the way reference material such as maps are presented in e-books, I encouraged him to write his... Ebook consumers' preference for tablets is accelerating rapidly as dedicated e-readers drop in popularity, according to the Book Industry Study Group's (BISG) closely watched Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey. Law book publishers LexisNexis has partnered with ebook distributers OverDrive to make their law content available as ebooks for desktops and mobile devices. 
Not only is Charlie Stross a published sci-fi author, but he is also an advocate for DRM-free eBooks. As such, he's put together a thoughtful argument as to why DRM-free eBooks will be good for the publishing world... |
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