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Dennis Johnson: [...]yesterday, the biggest of the Big Six [publishers], Random House, threw caution to the wind and announced they’d struck a deal with libraries: It was going to raise the price of its ebooks to library wholesalers, but once a library had bought the book, that was it. They could loan it out as many times as they wanted and never buy it again." Via Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries http://t.co/DIsal5KT (via @ATG_NewsChannel)...
Charles (Chuck) Hamaker takes an in-depth look at the challenges faced by ebooks “as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage” – and what it means for libraries. (The article is featured in the December 2011 issue of Searcher Magazine.)
Among the issues Chuck voices serious concerns about are:
Chuck then ends the article on an up note by offering some innovative suggestions that might enable ebooks to reach their full potential. Needless to say, his article raises numerous questions for librarians, publishers and vendors alike. In short, it is more than worth the read. Via Karen du Toit Delete the scoop?
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