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Booksquare's Kassia Krozser discusses the emerging agent-publisher role, and why she's concerned about a conflict of interest.
The big news today is this: Amazon announces a Kindle Owner’s Lending Library At first glance, it seems like a pretty mind blowing announcement. But when you read between the lines, it doesn’t look…
Kindle owners who subscribe to Amazon Prime will now be able to borrow e-books …
Ebook lending models. By Peter Brantley.
Ebrary now allows users to download ebooks to devices. Ebrary users can download up to 60 pages of a book into a permanent PDF file or an entire ebook using Adobe Digital Editions, which seems to l…
I’m finding it harder and harder not to tune out on ebook topics. It’s all too broken and I can’t fix it. “How do I use an ebook,” one of my faculty asked me this week…
Amazon is considering a Netflix-like service that would let people pay an annual fee to get book "rentals," according to a published report.
Digitisation may have come late to book publishing, but it is transforming the business in short order
Why should digital publishers invest in index creation? Because ebooks that give readers efficient ways to access what they need are ebooks that will sell.
The Nook DOESN'T screw the pooch in dealing with the K-12 market.
Amazon screws the pooch on ebooks in K12 environments.
When a library buys (not licenses) a copy of an ebook, it is subject to the same copyright restrictions and allowances as when the library buys a hardback copy. It has no more legal right to make 10 copies of...
During the just concluded ALA 2011 Conference in New Orleans the ALA OITP (Office of Information Technology Policy) eBook Task Force talked with senior HarperCollins staff*** about a number of important issues.
What Amazon.com's ebook sales figures really mean
I’ve been thinking about the Overdrive/Amazon announcement that will bring the Kindle into the device fold for library eBook lending and I have to say it raises concerns for me. In addition to the …