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Travis Jonker, the School Library Journal writer, wrote a fantastic post about how e-reading devices can be used in schools and libraries. Choosing an e Delete the scoop?
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The Future of User-Centric Ebooks EContent (press release) Many content experts have often complained about ebook publishers that, unfortunately, don't often take full advantage of the technology and instead simply deliver static, electronic... Delete the scoop?
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JB Hi-Fi starts selling eBooks through new JB NOW Books platform
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Booklists, recommended reading, book blogs and more. All things to do with books in their many different formats. Books online and books for dowloading to your device Delete the scoop?
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The team from TeachHUB.com, the site devoted to gather and deliver quality resources for K-12 educators, together with Clever Girls Collective, prepared a Delete the scoop?
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This is the Overdrive promotion video for K-12 schools Delete the scoop?
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A simple questionnaire that will help you recognise your reading needs and choose a relevant device: tablet or e-reader. Delete the scoop?
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Simple tips for ebook users, cool stuff, cartoons, infographics, best indie ebooks. Kindle, Nook, Kobo, iPad.
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interesting tips for ebooks, check out the Using Draft to find free ebooks Delete the scoop?
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Amazon visualization shows similar items based on 'Customers who bought this also bought...' data from Amazon
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Book recommendation tool, search by title or author Delete the scoop?
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The National Archives and Records Administration Publications Program. Links to lists of available electronic publications, both free and for sale.
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As more institutions publish and distribute their own ebooks opportunities to grow collections is enhanced. Delete the scoop?
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Schools are realizing that ebooks are not books at all—they are software and they should be sold the way software is sold.
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At last, someone has actually written about ebooks being software not books. 
Linda Dougherty's curator insight,
April 3, 12:12 AM
Makes total common sense which matches up with what most high school libraries already collect...databases with curated ebooks as part of that platform. Now for a similar "database collection" with award winning fiction books. Delete the scoop?
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Start with popular titles, obvious but important. Delete the scoop?
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A wealth of ebook ideas and resources from PSLA ereaders and ebooks panelists Delete the scoop?
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The entire Bradbury family is excited to know that Dad's work will finally be available to all readers: traditional print readers and the new generation of digital readers … We're especially pleased that digital editions of Bradbury books will be... Delete the scoop?
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Your free special issue from Inside History and findmypast is out now! Discover how to trace your military ancestors, from redcoats to Anzacs Delete the scoop?
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The Guardian Next-generation ebooks introduced at London Book Fair The Guardian Fiction edged its way closer to a digital incarnation with the publication this week of an interactive visual version of John Buchan's classic thriller, The Thirty-Nine... Delete the scoop?
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E-readers and tablets are becoming more popular as such technologies improve, but research suggests that reading on paper still boasts unique advantages (Reading Brain in the Digital Age: Science of Paper vs Screens:Scientific American Delete the scoop?
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Jason Merkoski played a significant role in developing the Kindle at Amazon. He has some regrets and worries about where e-books are taking the culture, and who is in charge.
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An interesting look at who is in control and whee the ebook market is going. Delete the scoop?
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kno Partner on K-12 Digital Textbooks Good E-Reader (blog) At the onset, Kno's publishing model allowed parents to purchase inexpensive digital copies of their children's textbooks, in order to maintain a personal-use... Delete the scoop?
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A selection of 10 great libraries that you can visit right now thanks to Google Street View interior tours. Delete the scoop?
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Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. 
Marianela Camacho Alfaro's curator insight,
April 8, 1:30 PM
"Comparing books to ebooks is like comparing mechanical watches to digital watches, or manual cars to automatic cars. No one doubts the convenience, reach, and flexibility of the ebook format, but it will never convincingly replicate the experience of a paper book—nor does it need to. Ebooks are a fundamentally new medium, stuck in an awkward growing stage. Ebooks will never replace paper books. But they don't have to." Delete the scoop?
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One ebook, one device, for one child is not ideal for K-12 Schools. Digital book streaming may be one way to provide schools access do ebook libraries. StarWalk Kids Media is one company distributing ebooks to schools via internet streaming. Delete the scoop?
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Marianela Camacho Alfaro's curator insight,
April 8, 1:31 PM
"The differences in format are beginning to change the nature of what we're reading, and how we do it." Delete the scoop?
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