Do you agree with Megan Fox? Are e-books back?
See previous post on librarian Megan Fox's optimism.
Comments welcome! And, yes, these polls are unscientific--just very crude measurements of sentiments among TeleBlog readers.
Free tryout of Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Having talked up the idea of a full-service world library, I'll offer one example of how this could be a great contracting opportunity for the private sector. Go...
Who will the US president of 2040 have been?
We pointed at the South By South-West (SXSW) panel on Digital Preservation and Blogs earlier; now there are some reports here, here, and here.
Some of the things that were discussed: does...
Who killed Wowio on my Documents to Go program? (Continued)
In hopes of once more being able to read PDFed books from Wowio via the Documents to Go program, I wiped the regular Adobe Reader off my Palm TX.
Maybe that...
‘The Next Decade for Digital Libraries’
"...we can view digital libraries as offering a relatively mature set of tools, engineering approaches, and technologies that are now ready to be harnessed in the service of many organizations and...
Quick Note: Financial importance of short-term loaning ebooks, a case study – full report...
Sue Polanka has gotten permission to reprint The Financial Importance of Short-term Loans: An Example from Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Michigan.
You can find the full study on her blog...
Short, comic Portis novel featured in librarian Tom Peters’ March 28 chatcast
From Tom Peters:
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 beginning at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, 1:00 Central, noon Mountain, 11:00 a.m. Pacific, and 7:00 p.m. GMT:
Book Discussion of Norwood, the short, comic, first...
Story-telling videos from the Broward County Library
TeleRead's slogan is, "Bring the E-Books Home."
But I'm all in favor of using net.video to help bring the p-books home via online story-tellilng, and that's exactly what the Broward County...
‘Read it and weep: New Orleans libraries are in ruins’
Here, by Andrei Codrescu, in The Villager, via LISNews. OK. We know about wi-fi efforts in New Orleans. Could they be combined with an e-book project and donations of hardware from...
Toronto Public Library electronic title usage up 88%
The number of materials borrowed (over 31 million) jumped by 5 percent over 2008
People visited the library’s 99 branches 17.5 million times, up 8.5% from last year
eTitles (including...
AMAZON
A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
