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What do To Kill A Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time and Little House on the Prairie series have in common, besides being beloved? None of them are available legally as e-books. A new site aims to make these and other e-books available to the public (and Read More...
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The Douglas County Libraries (Colorado) has taken another interesting step in its program to secure outright ownership of ebooks, keeping intact the same rights that public libraries have always had with print works. Jamie LaRue, the library’s director, Read More...
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Recent interviews shed light on how the antitrust cases against Apple and book publishers will unfold. The e-book controversy will not turn directly on commission-style pricing, but instead on a form of contract that allows a retailer to get preferential Read More...
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Against the background of today's war on sharing, exemplified by SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), traditional libraries underline an inconvenient truth: allowing people to share things – principally books in the case Read More...
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OverDrive released its lists of the most-downloaded e-books from libraries in December 2011. These lists look pretty different from the current New York Times e-book bestseller lists. Here’s why, plus a few interesting tidbits. All of the lists Read More...
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The Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) recently surveyed their membership to determine which U.S. public libraries offer downloadable ebooks, audiobooks and videos for use on portable devices like e-readers and smartphones. As LJ previously Read More...
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The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust arm said it was looking into potentially unfair pricing practices by electronic booksellers, joining European regulators and state attorneys general in a widening probe of large U.S. and international e-book Read More...
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As the digital era unfolds, the role of libraries in the distribution of e-books has emerged as a significant issue of contention. While print books are still the mainstay of most libraries, and audiobooks are accepted as a regular feature, there is considerable Read More...
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A few events over the past few weeks illustrate the downward arc that have suggested is in store for public libraries in the e-book age. First, Amazon introduced its own e-book “lending library” for members of its $79/year Amazon Prime service, Read More...
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There are many possible reasons, all of which are a response to high demand for e-books in libraries. And could it be that these attempts to curtail or impede that demand are counterproductive? Go to http://paidcontent.org/article/419-why-might-a-publisher-pull-its-e-books-from-libraries Read More...
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Officials from the European Commission said Tuesday they were looking into the fairness of e-book sales agreements made by French publisher Hachette Livre, News Corp.-owned Harper Collins, CBS' Simon & Schuster, Britain-based Pearson Group's Read More...
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One of the country’s largest publishers, Penguin Group (USA), is temporarily restoring libraries’ ability to loan their e-books for Amazon.com’s Kindle — but only through the end of the year. The publisher backtracked Wednesday Read More...
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Though we keep hearing about a huge increase in sales of e-books, a recent survey shows that, for students, that needle has not really moved much. The library e-book provider eBrary released some of the preliminary results from its 2011 Global Student Read More...
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