Tablets and e-books jumpstart Asian schools into internet age
Glamour is the unlikely jumping-off point for a fascinating insight into how tablets and e-books are transforming education in one of Asia's poorest countries - Myanmar. Connect to Learn Myanmar, a...
U.S. Copyright Office to hold roundtables on DMCA safe harbor
According to a pre-publication copy of the Federal Register seen by Library Journal, the U.S. Copyright Office is scheduling "two two-day public roundtables on DMCA safe harbor issues in New York, New...
The Open eBooks initiative: How well is it working?
Digital Book World has just shared an interview with Dan Cohen, the executive director of the Digital Public Library of America (DLPA), about the Open eBooks initiative, already covered in TeleRead. There,...
EBSCO CEO Tim Collins: Library e-book business models must be sustainable
EBSCO started out as a magazine index, but the company has continued to grow and evolve. It now represents a discovery service and e-book aggregator in addition to doing more with...
Kelly’s efficiency index: Good or bad for literature?
Publishers drop authors whose books don’t sell. Nothing new there. But now Kelly Gallagher, VP of Content Acquisition for Ingram Content Group, has shared some of the math he’s using. Here’s...
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...
The ultimate archive – for Bob Dylan fans
One very important archival development - for a very popular niche - has just been announced, as "the Bob Dylan Archive has been acquired by the George Kaiser Family Foundation and...
OverDrive library e-books: A beginner’s guide
One of my favourite ways to browse for books is through the public library. My library subscribes to the Overdrive service. I love that I can see new releases, put them...
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,...
Mike Shatzkin, e-publishing guru: A TeleRead Q&A
Leading up to Digital Book World Conference + Expo, there was a person I had hoped I would be able to catch up with. I’ve heard him talk at events, I read...
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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...
