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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
April 4, 2013 |
De Gruyter to Offer 100 Titles for Open Access Through Unglue.it Unglue.it is making ebooks free and universally accessible to libraries and book lovers alike. It works by users contributing an amount of their choosing to the book titles offered at the platform by publishers. |
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. |
Searcher
October 2010
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Smart Generosity My ebooks should have an afterlife. After all, I've paid about the same price as a good paperback, but not only can't I give it to a library -- or anyone else in most cases -- I'm still looking for instructions on how to delete a book entry from my Kindle or iBook "libraries." |
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
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
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
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
January 14, 2014 |
Online Information Conference Closes Previous Online Information conferences addressed topics such as social media, Big Data, mobile devices, ebooks, and open access. |
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
July 7, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Come to the World eBook Fair! This year, the theme of the fair is Own Your Own Library and it promises 1 million-plus books free for the taking. |
