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The company has said it before but are librarians paying attention to what it could possibly mean?
Amazon solves the e-textbook push/device-management problem, finally.
Six days later, many books at Amazon, B&N, and Google are well below list price.
Explains royalties! With percentages!
I love books. Physical books. Books that sit in my lap and warm it like a sleeping pup. Three and a half years ago, I had an e-reader unwillingly thrust upon me. I ignored it at first; shunned it. Then one day I was packing for a long trip and [...]
Additionally, about 43% of Gen Y’s purchases are focused online, and the shift to digital channels is increasingly undeniable.
"With most of the biggest publishers refusing to sell e-books to vendors that act as middlemen between publishers and libraries, San Francisco and other California libraries are preparing to try something new in their efforts to expand their digital collections - buying e-books directly from smaller publishers."
Hachette tries to tell author not to allow Tor to provide un-DRMed ebooks.
Choosing an eBook Platform(s) that Works for Your K12 Library An ALA TechSource Workshop Presented by Buffy J. Hamilton August 2012 …
The uncertain economics of lending virtual books
This briefing document was developed with helpful inputs from industry stakeholders and other practitioners in preparation for the “E-Books in Libraries” worksh
"Access is one of the core values of librarianship, but we have others. Privacy. Sharing. Preservation. Paper books can serve all those values simultaneously. Ebooks bring them into tension. Let’s talk about that."
Apple's response to the suit and settlement is being called "self-serving."
Sales of e-readers saw a quarterly increase of 5.5 per cent but were down a huge 63.1 per cent compa
Publishers creating e-first or e-only imprints, or reviving dead print imprints as e-.