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Information Today
April 11, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon Buys Goodreads to Bolster Its Advice Portfolio With links to more than 68,000 authors and more than 30,000 book clubs, Goodreads has become the clear leader for peer recommendations and social cataloging in its 6 years of existence.   |
Information Today
June 27, 2011 |
Goodreads Ratings and Reviews to be Added to NoveList Products The agreement leverages the content of Goodreads, the largest social network for readers, adding additional content to the popular readers' advisory service. |
Information Today
May 2, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Book Recommendation Services With the increased interest in ebooks and the phenomenal sales of ereaders, it's worth knowing about some other very helpful sources for book recommendations. |
Information Today
August 26, 2014 |
Plum Analytics Adds Goodreads Metrics Plum Analytics expanded its support for books to include metrics from Goodreads. |
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. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Searcher
May 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Feature: The Ebook Wars - Amazon Versus the Rest The move to electronic publication of books is creating some of the same issues and problems for publishers and distributors that the music industry -- not to mention, the information industry -- has been dealing with for years now: disintermediation. |
Information Today
March 8, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon's Squeeze on Booksellers Leads to Boycotts and Protests In January, Barnes & Noble made the decision to no longer carry Amazon-published titles in their brick-and-mortar stores "based on Amazon's continued push for exclusivity with publishers, agents and the authors they represent." |
Information Today
July 9, 2012 |
NoveList Select Gains New Features and Options New features improve the user experience, as well as offer new upgrade options, including book jackets, professional book reviews, sample excerpts, tables of contents, and more, from Content Cafe -- a database offered by Baker & Taylor. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2006
David Ian Miller |
Amazon Turns a New Page Amazon Connect is a new feature on Amazon.com that lets authors communicate with their readers with regular postings on whatever topic interests them. |
InternetNews
November 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Booksellers Move to Pay-Per-View Random House and Amazon will let readers buy only the pages they want. |
Information Today
November 15, 2012 |
OCLC Expands Partnership With Goodreads OCLC announced that it expanded its strategic partnership with Goodreads, which claims to be the world's largest site for readers and book recommendations, to help provide greater visibility for all libraries. |
Information Today
March 5, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Ingram to Create New Book Catalog Database, Drop Long-Standing Connection with Bowker Ingram Customer Systems, Inc. has announced that in early April it will release a comprehensive new book-title database to booksellers and libraries... |
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
January 30, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
New Crowdfunding Initiative to `Unglue' Ebooks Launches in Alpha Imagine this: a site that wants people to donate money for a book they love so others can read and enjoy it. It's an altruistic public-broadcasting kind of model that its founder says can work for making ebooks more accessible. |
Information Today
July 2, 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Ingram Digital and Microsoft Join in an Alliance Microsoft Corp. and Ingram Digital Group have signed an agreement whereby Microsoft's Live Search Books program will outsource high-volume scanning and digital management services to the Ingram Digital Group. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2011
Jeremy Bowman |
Amazon's Dance With the Devil The retail giant's shady business practices go well beyond its recent price comparison offer. |
Information Today
May 10, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Open Library Upgrading Its Service The grand goal of the Open Library is "to provide a page on the web for every book ever published," according to its FAQ. |
Information Today
November 3, 2003
Barbara Quint |
'Search Inside the Book': Full-Text on Amazon Tapping into over 33 million pages from over 120,000 non-fiction and fiction titles supplied by over 190 publishers, Amazon.com has launched a major online access service to the full text of publications. |
The Motley Fool
February 1, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Is Amazon Connect a Page Turner? Will authors' blogs help Amazon sell? For now, the most compelling content for many investors is going to be the company's earnings announcement. |
Macworld
March 2001
David Pogue |
Darkness in the Amazon Jungle Amazon.com Keeps Fiddling with the Formula... |
Information Today
June 3, 2013 |
IngramSpark Service Debuts Publish-on-Demand Platform This online publishing tool grants independent publishers easy-to-use, cost-effective access to Ingram's global distribution network for print and ebooks. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2009
Rex Moore |
Is an App Store Next for E-Readers? Getting a read on the next big thing in e-books. |
