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Information Today July 8, 2013 |
Going Social: Top Apps for Best Recommended Reads The apps listed here are all free, whether you opt to find a title to enjoy on your own or want to join a reading community to share your thoughts about your favorite bestseller with a virtual book club. |
Information Today December 16, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Google's eBookstore Takes Ebooks to the Next Level On Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, after months of anticipation, Google officially launched Google eBookstore (previously called Google Editions), marking an important milestone for the ebook industry. |
Information Today January 31, 2011 |
Aldiko Introduces Aldiko BookReader 2.0 The new version of the company's eReader software for Android devices adds support for ePub and PDF formats, support for Adobe Content Server 4 DRM, support for ebooks from public libraries, a marketplace, and redesigned user interface. |
Information Today February 13, 2014 |
Aquafadas Updates Go Live Aquafadas added more than 30 new features to version 3.2 of its Digital Publishing System for ebooks, e-magazines, and other digital content. |
Information Today June 19, 2014 |
Oyster Launches Android App The Oyster ebook subscription service now offers its free app to Android device and NOOK HD users via the Google Play store. |
Information Today March 5, 2009 Rita Y. Toews |
Read an E-Book Week March 8--14 Individuals interested in the environmental impact of electronic reading will find details of a life-cycle assessment of paper books versus ebooks. |
Information Today February 5, 2015 |
Baker & Taylor Unveils New Axis 360 App Axis 360 is compatible with both Apple and Android devices and allows users to discover, download, and access ebooks and e-audiobooks. |
Information Today July 18, 2011 Nancy Herther |
Amazon and Google Take Ebook Rivalry Up a Few Notches On Monday, July 11, Google announced the first ereader integrated with the open Google eBooks platform, making it easier for users to load and read Google ebooks in a Wi-Fi environment. |
Information Today March 4, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebook Subscription Services Here's the scoop on five popular ebook subscription services, including a comparison chart for quick reference. |
Information Today May 20, 2010 |
OverDrive to Release Free eBook Reading Apps "The significant investments that libraries and retailers are making in premium ebook collections will have even greater value when users can access titles on their mobile devices," said David Burleigh, director of marketing for OverDrive. |
Information Today June 2, 2011 Paula J. Hane |
Sources for Free Ebooks and Ereader Software The majority of the free ebooks available are older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books. Some sites, such as Amazon, offer newer free ebooks on limited time promotional offers. Barnes & Noble offers a limited number of Free Nook Books. The Sony Reader Store also offers some free ebooks. |
Information Today April 12, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Tsunami -- From Antitrust to Burgeoning Sales The ebook tsunami is still in play; new issues, problems, and possibilities occur almost daily. We can do little more than watch, wonder, and improvise as the forces of innovation and commercialism work through this time of change in publishing. |
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Sony Announces Inaugural Participants in Reader Library Program The program will provide participating libraries with in-house training on digital reading devices, educational materials to help librarians and patrons learn more about ebooks, and digital reading devices for library staff use and patron demonstrations. |
Information Today June 11, 2012 |
ebrary Announces New Android App ebrary's Android and iOS apps work with ebooks acquired under all of ebrary's acquisition models including the 75,000 titles available through Academic Complete, the industry's first and only aggregated ebook subscription to be designated as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. |
Information Today January 17, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Trends 2013 -- The New World of Ebook Publishing Changes are coming much faster in the publishing world today -- prices for titles are dropping and we are seeing the development of new models and channels for publishing, distribution, and sales. |
Information Today March 8, 2012 |
Baker & Taylor Agreement With Smashwords to Bring Ebooks to Blio Using Blio, readers can sample and purchase Smashwords books, create digital libraries for purchased and sampled titles, publish text or YouTube video book reviews, and "favorite" their chosen authors, publishers, and titles. |
Information Today November 19, 2012 |
New Findings Reaffirm Library Borrowers Are Also Buyers An extensive online poll of library ebook readers finds that these patrons purchase an average of 3.2 books (both print and ebooks) each month, and a majority would consider purchasing books discovered on a library website. |
Information Today March 2009 Marji McClure |
Turning a New Page in Ebooks Amazon brought renewed attention to ebooks, especially in the consumer market, with its 2007 launch of the Amazon Kindle and, most recently, the February release of the Amazon Kindle 2. |
Information Today February 12, 2007 |
Macmillan Launches Ebook Sites Macmillan has launched more than 30 ebook titles from its Macmillan New Writing and Macmillan Science imprints. These are now available to search and purchase online. |
Information Today October 27, 2015 |
Disney Ebooks Come to hoopla Library patrons now have access to more than 380,000 movies, music, ebooks, and other digital media. |
Information Today February 25, 2010 |
Over Drive Announces New Ebook Services for 2010 OverDrive, Inc., a distributor of ebooks and audiobooks for libraries and retailers, announced new services that will significantly expand its digital distribution network for copyrighted digital media. |
Information Today May 19, 2015 |
hoopla Begins Lending Ebooks and E-Comics There are currently more than 5,000 ebooks available and nearly 600 e-comics. |
Information Today December 28, 2009 |
OverDrive Releases Android Audiobook App OverDrive, a global distributor of audiobooks and ebooks to libraries and retailers, announced the beta release of an audiobook app that enables Android phone and device owners to wirelessly download digital audiobooks. |
Information Today November 1, 2010 Paula J. Hane |
HTML5-Powered E-Readers for the Browser A new HTML5 reader, powered by SkyShelf from LibreDigital, allows customers to read books in the browser on their laptops, tablets and many smartphones. |
Information Today December 3, 2012 |
VOOK to Offer Interactive Ebook Publishing With WeJITs WeJITs allow an ebook reader to communicate, from within the ebook, directly with the author, with other existing readers, and with new individuals outside the book who are not yet readers, but who can start participating in book-based discussions. This expands a book's new readership and reach. |
Information Today May 21, 2012 |
Unglue.it Officially Launches With Five Ebook Campaigns Unglue.it is a crowdfunding site that lets book lovers pay authors and publishers to make their already-published books free to the world under a Creative Commons license. |
Information Today March 11, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Sony Transitions Out of the North American Ebook Market At 6 p.m. EST on March 20, 2014, the Sony Reader Store will close its virtual doors to customers in the U.S. and Canada. |
Information Today April 16, 2012 |
OverDrive to Preview Library Ebook Data at London Book Fair Data from OverDrive's global library network to be made available to participating libraries and publishers includes information about ebook and digital audiobook title circulation, book demand and holds, as well as web traffic and general demographics. |
Information Today July 9, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
The Challenging Landscape of Ebooks in Libraries The overall growth in digital content of all kinds, and in particular, the growing importance and acceptance of ebooks, has clearly presented great opportunities for libraries, as well as plenty of challenges. |
Information Today August 31, 2009 |
Sony Announces Wireless Ebook Reader and Library Finder Sony Electronics, Inc. announced the third member of its new ebook Reader family, the Reader Daily Edition, a wireless model with 3G connectivity. |
Information Today March 31, 2015 |
Digitalback Books Promotes African Literature Digitalback Books, a new ebook subscription platform for African literature, rolled out a mobile app for iOS and Android devices. |
Information Today March 12, 2012 Dan Tonkery |
Booki.sh Goes Into OverDrive The little startup from Melbourne, Australia, Booki.sh is joining the rapidly growing Cleveland-based OverDrive, the leading distributor of ebooks and digital audiobooks to libraries. |
Information Today November 28, 2011 |
OverDrive Announces Ebook Device 'Test Drive' Program for Libraries The program includes device recommendations and guidelines for setup, maintenance, and support, as well as best practices for institutions that want to stock and lend ebook readers and tablets to patrons. |
Information Today December 17, 2015 |
Ingram Acquires Direct Sales Service Ingram Content Group acquired Aer.io, a service that helps publishers, retailers, and authors sell print books and ebooks directly via their websites, blogs, and social networks. |
Information Today August 27, 2012 |
LexisNexis eBooks Available on Amazon Kindle Store Additionally, LexisNexis eBooks on Kindle or through Kindle reading apps are also accessible through the recently launched LexisNexis Digital Library solution. |
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Read eBooks Offline netLibrary, Inc., distributor of full-length digital versions of publishers' books, announces their free personal software application, eBook Reader. This reader allows users to read eBooks without being connected to the Internet... |
Information Today September 17, 2013 Barbara Brynko |
What's Trending in Ebooks The good news is that ebooks are holding their own and still commanding a sizable portion of the publishing pie. Consumer demand for ebooks is being heard in all market segments, including the library space. |
Information Today August 22, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Books & Media Move to the Clouds; Apple, Amazon, and Walmart Fight for Market Share We can expect to see more posturing, product announcements, legal wrangling and, hopefully, consumers will see better ebook/app products at competitive prices. |
Information Today March 26, 2012 |
ebrary Announces New Strategic Approach to Ebook Acquisition To help libraries meet the research needs of their entire institutions and maximize their budgets, ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced a new approach to ebook acquisition |
Information Today February 24, 2011 Nancy Herther |
Borders Bookstores File for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection The filing document includes discussion of the measures the company is initiating to return to profitability. This includes the closure of 200 low-performing stores across the country, about one-third of the company's existing bookstores, by May 2011. |
Information Today June 4, 2012 Paula J. Hane |
Worldreader Aims for `Books for All' As of May 2012, Worldreader had put more than 100,000 ebooks -- and the life-changing, power-creating ideas contained within them -- into the hands of 1,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa. |
Information Today April 2009 Donald T. Hawkins |
Report from the Field: O'Reilly TOC 2009: Books, Reading, and Publishing O'Reilly Media held its third Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing conference in February in New York. |
D-Lib Bob Bolick |
Ebook Literacy The real excitement will begin when ebooks are fully embedded in the Web or in pre-configured digital libraries, because the literacy of browsing, choosing, and searching will bring that other literacy -- the literacy of the book -- under the pressure of immediate contextuality... |
Information Today August 20, 2009 Nancy Herther |
Sony Announces New Ebook Readers and EPUB Standard Support "Sony's adoption of EPUB is a smart strategy for them, because creating another proprietary format is pointless," says Michael Norris, senior analyst for trade books at Simba Information. |
Information Today June 27, 2011 |
OverDrive Adds Simultaneous Access Ebook Suppliers to Catalog Collections from Thomas Nelson, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Crabtree Publishing, and Lonely Planet will enable libraries to provide `always available' eBooks. |
Information Today July 11, 2011 |
New Report on Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors A weakened economy, declining numbers of book buyers and the acceleration of ebooks seemingly combined to make 2010 one of the most challenging ever for the U.S. book industry. |
Information Today April 28, 2011 Theresa Cramer |
Kindle Library Lending Announcement Raises Questions Kindle-using library patrons will now be able to get ebooks in their preferred format, and that's about the whole of it. |
Information Today October 17, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Kansas Leading the Fight for Fair Ebook Access in Libraries The Kansas case brings up a variety of important issues and problems with ebooks today: The issues of platform, buyers rights, and the very structure of the ebook industry. |
Information Today September 29, 2011 Dan Tonkery |
Amazon Launches Library Ebook Lending Support for Kindle and an All-New Kindle Family Support for ebook lending is a major departure for Amazon and is an important milestone for libraries. Previously, Amazon only sold ebooks and did not support ebook lending for libraries even though there has been significant demand from libraries. |
The Motley Fool September 27, 2010 Anders Bylund |
Wrong Move, Google! Google needs to improve the Android Market in many ways. Adding more places with paid app support should be way down on the priority list. |