Zut alors! E-books were just 6.4 percent of the book market in France in...
I love France, home to Mantano Reader, Feedbooks and other glories of e-bookdom.
But all is not well there. Jerry Lewis isn't the only case of French and American tastes diverging. While...
How reader-generated links could enrich e-books: ‘Link wikis’?
Reader-generated links---link wikis?---could enrich e-books without the time and money now needed for enrichment. Here how to automate the process.
ASCD/OverDrive survey shows 80 percent of U.S. schools using ebooks, digital content
Educational association ASCD and OverDrive have teamed up to survey "over 2,000 school- and district-based administrators" in the U.S. on their use of digital content. The resulting survey, "Digital Content Goes to...
The last online library you will ever need: Borges’s Library of Babel lives
Flavorwire has just published an interview with the creator of the ultimate library - of a very particular kind. That's Brooklyn author Jonathan Basile, who has taken it upon himself to...
Librarian Rhapsody
Libraries often put me in a rhapsody, but never quite like this!
National digital library endowment proposal makes Education Week
LibraryCity’s proposal for a national digital library endowment has now made the leading publication in the field of K-12 education---not just philanthropy (Chronicle of Philanthropy) and libraries (Library Journal).
Education Week has...
Canadian librarians ask Big Five publishers for more reasonable e-book terms
Canadian newswire service CNW is carrying a press release from Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Ebook Pricing. The release links to an open letter (PDF) from the organization, calling on the...
E-books don’t smell
Here is another 'pro' argument for the e-book camp: e-books don't smell.
Obvious? Yes. But the physicality of paper books and the physical spaces which house them can be a surprisingly complex...
Carnegie legacy lives as closure protestors occupy London library
Andrew Carnegie's legacy of supporting public education and literacy is getting a late refresh in London. Carnegie Library in Herne Hill, Lambeth, was slated for closure on April 1st, as part...
Sony and Datalogics announce partnership in DADC e-book DRM
Digital Book World is carrying a press release in which Sony crows that it has entered into a partnership with Datalogics, Inc. to use Sony’s DADC e-book DRM.
Sony developed this DRM...
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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...
