I've been wondering about ebooks and libraries for a while, in particular about where things are going in terms of library use of ebooks. What caught my eye this week was a blog post on the Pub...
In purchasing books for kids 7–12, parents primarily learned about titles from the kids themselves and by a wide margin: 72 percent. For this same age range, 44 percent discovered titles at a bookstore, while 34 percent learned about books at the public library, 31 percent from teachers, and 28 percent from the school library. As for Amazon, 19 percent of parents learned about titles for their child aged 7–12 from the online retailing giant.
What if Romeo and Juliet lived happily ever after, or Van Helsing decided Dracula wasn't worth the trouble? In a high-tech twist on Choose Your Own Adventure, "active fiction" imbues readers with precisely that kind of power.
While many schools and libraries have launched pilot programs to get ereaders and tablets into the hands of students or have allowed them to bring their own devices to class, it’s still early days. As such, there’s mostly just anecdotal evidence from educators about how well these devices work in school.
Make your own interactive ebooks for any platform
Hello.I'm Bill O'Reilly and I've worked in secondary and post secondary schools for more than 20 years .....
26th Jan is Australia Day and here are some great Australian ebooks
Readings Ebooks is Australia's independent ebook retailer. Find award-winning and bestselling ebooks by Australian and international authors.
Poster promoting free ebook downloads through local library. Great idea for all schools to localise and make relevant for their students. Thanks for the idea Mighty Little Librarian.
Apple's latest initiative is characteristically ambitious: the reinvention of the textbook.
Carolyn Foote chronicles the beginning phases (and advice/lessons learned so far) of her Overdrive implementation
Via Buffy J. Hamilton
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The new Follett Digital Reader app will allow students to check out books to their mobile devices from the Follett SHelf, a collection of e-books that the library can build. Follett’s pricing is very appealing to schools, as they aren’t charging an annual fee (this continues their policy of not doing that) nor will they be charging an additional “mark-up” for e-book content. The Follett Shelf product also stands alone from Destiny, so if a district doesn’t have Destiny, they could have the Follett Shelf book collection for student check-out.
School librarians have noted a great increase in the number of kids with ereaders, and are seeing this as a good thing, but there are problems too..
It’s one of those modern situations that no one in publishing ever imagined: Being at odds with librarians, the ultimate champions of literacy and literature.
The purpose of this blog is to inform school districts in British Columbia about the state of E-Books, E-Readers and the implementation issues surrounding the usage of these new technologies and formats.
E-books have gone from a niche service to a high demand format in an incredibly short time. And their pace of growth is likely to increase.
American Libraries Magazine, the magazine of the American Library Association, delivers news and information about the library community.
After publishing his first print book, photographer Trey Ratcliff started his own e-book publisher, FlatBooks. Why?
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