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Scribd, the fast-growing ebook subscription service, today announced dramatic cuts to their catalog of romance and erotica titles. Effec...
Our Canadian librarian colleagues are telling the world: Big publishers are ripping us off, big time. If you’re one of the Big Five publishers, this is the conversation you do not want to have. You have a product—the ebook file representing a book—and you insist that it be treated like a book in some ways. … Continue reading Canada, oh Canada: Fighting back on ebook pricing →
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a short talk at the second virtual meeting of the NISO effort to reach a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. The slides from the presentation are below and on SlideShare, followed by a cleaned-up transcript of my remarks.
Includes info on why Smashwords killed its in-house Library Direct in favor of playing with OverDrive. *sigh* Libraries are so shortsighted.
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On ebook adoption and why the numbers may be lying.
A movement to improve ebook access from libraries.
Daniel Goldstein warns that some of the contracts colleges are accepting may limit access in key ways.
A panel at Digital Book World last week offered several insights on how ebook platforms are analyzing user data and what they have discovered.