First Lady Michelle Obama talks up OpenEbooks initiative for K-12
Disadvantaged children across the country will enjoy access to thousands of e-books made available by major publishers such as Random House and National Geographic, with encouragement from the White House.
Budapest’s beautiful libraries
Budapest, where I live - and love - has some amazing libraries, as it turns out. Showcased courtesy of Welovebudapest.com, here are just a few of them. Probably the most stunning...
Academic librarian enables e-book interlibrary loan
An article on Daily Toreador looks at Ryan Litsey, an associate librarian at Texas Tech who developed an e-reader application to allow libraries to loan e-books via interlibrary loan. For his...
Library collection weeding and e-books
There’s an amusing article in the New Yorker about the quandary librarians face when it comes to deciding what should remain in their collections. Like a bookstore, a library has only...
E-book popularity rises all over the world
There might be a kind of hush all over the world tonight, but with apologies to Herman’s Hermits, it’s more likely because people are busy reading e-books instead of being lovers...
Amazon, ALA-shamers can’t hide their far-right agenda
Authors United, the Big Five, the UK Daily Mail - now another bunch of publicity-hungry special-pleading opportunists has jumped abroad the anti-Amazon bandwagon. This time, it's the National Center on Sexual Exploitation,...
ALA issues practical advice to help libraries become 3D printing centers
The American Library Association (ALA) has just issued some fascinating advice to librarians on how to implement 3D printers in libraries. The new "Practical Advice" report, entitled "Progress in the Making:...
The Orlando horrors: How books and tech-era empathy building might have saved 49 lives
The Donald was predictable in the wake of the Orlando horrors, when 49 people died and 53 were wounded in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. He tweeted the following:
Desk Set, e-books, and digital vs. analog
How long have the digital and the analog been at war in libraries? Longer than you might expect. This lesson was driven home to me in a fun little movie I...
Open eBooks program for low income children: More details, some app-related
Publishing Perspectives is carrying a story about the Open eBooks initiative, which we last mentioned a couple of weeks ago. Open eBooks is a program and e-reader application intended to make...
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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...
