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	<title>TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics &#187; Paul Biba</title>
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		<title>eBooks: IFLA Releases Background Paper on e-Lending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Price, Editor of InfoDocket.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Announcement: As part of its work on the 2011-2012 Key Initiatives, the IFLA Governing Board appointed a working group to draft a background paper on digital lending. At its April meeting the IFLA Governing Board endorsed this paper, and we are now pleased to present a version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eagle and the Snake &#8211; a plot-interactive ebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published by Diversion Books and available on Amazon, B&#38;N, iTunes and Kobo this is a new type of ebook.  From the website: “Unconventional and innovative, this is the future of e-publishing here and now—a thriller you not only read, but interact with. Pretty cool and completely fascinating. Attention everyone with an e-reader, don’t miss W. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>calibre 0.8.53 Released</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 12:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Features Kindle Touch/4 driver: Upload cover thumbnails when sending books to device by USB to workaround Amazon bug of not displaying covers for sync-enabled books Support for updating metadata in FB2 files Set a different background color when choosing formats to not delete as opposed to choosing format to delete. E-book viewer: Add an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Historical Society Releases Free eBook Capturing Innovation and Inspiration of Golden Gate Bridge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the press release: As hundreds of thousands of admirers of the Golden Gate Bridge begin to converge on the San Francisco Bay area to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the world-renowned icon, the California Historical Society is releasing its first multimedia eBook for iPads to capture the rich history and amazing story of the Bridge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queen Victoria’s personal journals now available for public access, by Sue Polanka</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>a TeleRead Contributor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a ProQuest press release: London, 24 May 2012.   HM the Queen launches online resource of all Queen Victoria’s Journals Her Majesty The Queen today launched a unique online resource that makes available all the personal journals of Queen Victoria.  The Bodleian Libraries working in partnership with The Royal Archives and information company ProQuest, have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Star relaunched by Simon &amp; Schuster as dedicated ebook imprint</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the press release: - Louise Burke, Executive Vice President and Publisher, announced today that Pocket Books, America’s first paperback publisher, has re-launched its Pocket Star line as an eBook-only imprint. As it did in print, Pocket Star will continue to feature bestselling and debut authors in popular genres including women’s fiction, romance, thrillers, urban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OverDrive Says Developer APIs Will Become Available in July</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/library/overdrive-says-developer-apis-will-become-available-in-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Price, Editor of InfoDocket.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OverDrive APIs that were supposed to launch in April are now set to become available in July. From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog: OverDrive’s product and development teams have been hard at work developing a suite of APIs (application programming interfaces) that will enable approved vendors to deeply integrate OverDrive-hosted catalogs and nearly 1 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted from OverDrive and rivals: Smarter software for library e-books</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/library/wanted-from-overdrive-and-rivals-smarter-software-for-library-e-books/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 11:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Rothman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new version of the OverDrive library app, for e-books and audiobooks, has just appeared for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the iPad III. Compared to past incarnations, 2.4.2 should delight many a patron. Users of Apple’s IOS operating system will enjoy ‘more control over text justification, line spacing, page margins, and font selection.’ And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gale digitizes popular 20th century weekly &#8211; Liberty Magazine</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/library/gale-digitizes-popular-20th-century-weekly-liberty-magazine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/library/gale-digitizes-popular-20th-century-weekly-liberty-magazine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 00:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an email sent to me by Gale: There are very few magazines that are able to stand the test of time while so accurately capturing the moods and attitudes of an entire country. Liberty Magazine, a weekly that rivaled the Saturday Evening Post in its heyday, has found new life within the family of Gale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Literature launches online literary magazine &#8211; Recommended Reading</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/electric-literature-launches-online-literary-magazine-recommended-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/electric-literature-launches-online-literary-magazine-recommended-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ From the website.  I love the logo so I&#8217;m reprinting it bigger than usual.  Stories are available on the website or in ePub form for free, or in Kindle format for $1. GREAT AUTHORS INSPIRE US. But what about the stories that inspire them? Recommended Reading, a magazine by Electric Literature, publishes one story a week, each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future Of Publishing In Microcosm &#124; The Increasing Internationalization Of Irish Publishing</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-future-of-publishing-in-microcosm-the-increasing-internationalization-of-irish-publishing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eoin Purcell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was a little unfair to Easons for the pronouncements of the company’s spokesperson and the tone of the article on its ebook strategy which suggested the company was about to embark on a  mission to build a rival platform to B&#38;N and Amazon, something that would surely have been a valiant, if doomed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowker Research Shows Australia is a Global Leader in E-Book Adoption</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/bowker-research-shows-australia-is-a-global-leader-in-e-book-adoption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the press release by the Book Industry Study Group: &#8230;The Global eBook Monitor finds that men are slightly more likely to have engaged with the digital book market than women. The 18-24 age group leads in use, just a little ahead of those aged 25-34. However, that may change shortly. &#8216;Although current e-book use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GPO Partners With Barnes and Noble to Sell Federal eBooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gary Price, Editor of InfoDocket.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the GPO: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has signed an agreement with Barnes &#38; Noble to sell Federal eBooks. Titles are available in eBook format for Barnes &#38; Noble’s Nook eReader. GPO works with Federal agencies to produce their publications, books, and reports in print and digital formats, including eBook formats. Approximately 30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check out new site: 100 Free Books For Your Kindle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new free ebook site in town &#8211; 100 Free Ebooks For Your Kindle. According to the site it is updated several times a day. Checking out the site I see that they are NOT a list of public domain books.]]></description>
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		<title>Etextbook study in a medical school</title>
		<link>http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/etextbook-study-in-a-medical-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 13:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Biba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an article in TechNewsWorld: &#8230; To get a better feel for the effects of e-textbooks on student productivity, the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine&#8217;s Health Sciences launched an iPad pilot program and study. With the aid of a US$10,000 Technology Improvement Express Award grant from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region, [...]]]></description>
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