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Sarah Houghton over at Librarian in Black dropped the latest library-world bombshell with her post "Overdrive Has Different eBook Catalogs For Different Libraries." Her thorough research in the sit...
LOTS of good tutorials/educational material on epub.
The Justice Department is joining state attorneys general from Texas and …
New wrinkle on the agency-vs.-wholesale issue. Phew, this just gets more and more complicated.
The widespread downloading of e-books unnerves publishers because digital files can be easily shared and proliferated
Who owns the book? Ebooks are a challenging area for libraries. Licensing is a critical issue because ebooks are being marketed as if they were analogous to print purchases. They most definitely are not. They can be available one day and gone the next.
Without decent metadata, iBooks is even more annoying than the App Store
When Penguin announced last week that it was disabling library e-book lending on the Kindle and pulling its latest e-book titles from all library lending platforms, libraries and readers took the hit, but to some observers they were collateral damage in a fight between publishers and Amazon about the control of publishers’ titles.
Based on in-depth research among a national sample of nearly 2500 participants and Library Journal editorial analysis, this groundbreaking study—the first to target library consumers in the context of all consumers—unveils who uses public libraries, why they use them, and how that use may change.
People are increasingly happy to read magazine content on a tablet, but they …
[Kindle image by Tim Spalding, thanks Tim!]I went to a staff meeting on Friday at the local library where I sometimes work. We did some strategic planning, some walking around the building looki
The timeline and output may be unknown, but the distinction between the Internet and books is arbitrary, and it is destined to disappear. Hugh McGuire examines the transition and takes a few guesses as to what lies ahead.
"Quality, Experience, Design." Good checklist to punt to for .epub creators.
Good summary of the agency-vs.-wholesale argument, and the Macmillan vs. Amazon fiasco.
My cousin Katie asked if libraries could loan loaded ebook readers. For example, one device could have romances, another could have science fiction. Here are my thoughts. I'd appreciate any coments. Let's divide the question into four scenarios. Let's start...