TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » library http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:16:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Morning Roundup: Why borrowing an e-book from your library is so difficult http://www.teleread.com/library/morning-roundup-michaels-counterpoint/ http://www.teleread.com/library/morning-roundup-michaels-counterpoint/#comments Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:19:38 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=87271 Counterpoint: Self-Published Authors are the Salvation of Literature (Good e-Reader) Yesterday, GoodEReader posted a viewpoint on the damage that self-published authors allegedly do to the state of literature, presumably just by existing. They apparently clog the virtual bookshelves of every online retailer with their mindless paranormal crap and their poorly edited spew. They cheapen the [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/sharing-physical-books-thinking-inside-the-box/feed/ 0 Hachette to Offer Full Catalog, Including New Releases, To Libraries http://www.teleread.com/library/hachette-to-offer-full-catalog-including-new-releases-to-libraries/ http://www.teleread.com/library/hachette-to-offer-full-catalog-including-new-releases-to-libraries/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 15:15:49 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=84217 This is kind of a good news/bad news story. The good news is that Hachette is going to be offering its full catalog to libraries, including new releases. No windowing! The other piece of good news is that the books won’t expire, unlike library books from HarperCollins, Penguin and Macmillan. I really like the no-expiration [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/hachette-to-offer-full-catalog-including-new-releases-to-libraries/feed/ 2 How to build you very own Little Free Library http://www.teleread.com/library/how-to-build-you-very-own-little-free-library/ http://www.teleread.com/library/how-to-build-you-very-own-little-free-library/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:12:29 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=82977 I vaguely remember seeing a few blog posts and photo-heavy features here and there in months past about tiny, DIY libraries. It always seemed to me like the sort of thing you might expect to see in one of those weird BuzzFeed roundups: 12 Oddball Book Lovers Who’ve Built Tiny Libraries On the Side of [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/how-to-build-you-very-own-little-free-library/feed/ 0 Penguin to Stop Windowing Library Books (Bonus: Cool workaround for Penguin library books) http://www.teleread.com/penguin/penguin-to-stop-windowing-library-books-bonus-cool-workaround-for-penguin-library-books/ http://www.teleread.com/penguin/penguin-to-stop-windowing-library-books-bonus-cool-workaround-for-penguin-library-books/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:05:40 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=82170 You may have already seen that Penguin is going to stop the windowing of library book titles. That’s a good thing, and I applaud the decision. I’d be more excited if my library was part of the 3M system, and if Penguin wasn’t having books “expire” and require a repurchase every year, but some library books [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/penguin/penguin-to-stop-windowing-library-books-bonus-cool-workaround-for-penguin-library-books/feed/ 2 Overdrive Media Console (App Review) http://www.teleread.com/overdrive/overdrive-media-console-app-review/ http://www.teleread.com/overdrive/overdrive-media-console-app-review/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:20:14 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=81547 At the end of January, I wrote an article on the Overdrive overhaul, and how users weren’t completely happy with the new interface. To follow up on that, I decided to try the Overdrive Media Console app and see how it fares as an e-reading app. My verdict? I want to like it. I really do. [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-virtual-library-for-nyc-straphangers/feed/ 1 My DRM-Free Year, Month 2: All Hail Indie Amazon Authors! http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-2-all-hail-indie-amazon-authors/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-2-all-hail-indie-amazon-authors/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:00:56 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=80090 The story of Joanna Cabot's DRM-free year continues with the dispatch below, from FEB 2013. JAN | FEB | MAR | APR | MAY | JUN | JUL | AUG | SEP | OCT | NOV | DEC It’s been a busy month for me, work-wise, so I haven’t had that much reading time—I logged [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/my-drm-free-year-month-2-all-hail-indie-amazon-authors/feed/ 4 At a library in Slovenia, borrowing books is sometimes a mystery http://www.teleread.com/library/surprise-books-packs-at-a-slovenia-library/ http://www.teleread.com/library/surprise-books-packs-at-a-slovenia-library/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:10:59 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=79354 Another day, another unusually quirky story from the public library space. Today’s story comes from the far-off and seemingly magical outpost of Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia. And yes, this story does happen to be about 13 months old—the earliest online reference we found carried a January 2012 deadline. But because it doesn’t seem [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/surprise-books-packs-at-a-slovenia-library/feed/ 7 At one Colorado library, even plant seeds can be borrowed http://www.teleread.com/library/at-one-colorado-library-even-plant-seeds-can-be-borrowed/ http://www.teleread.com/library/at-one-colorado-library-even-plant-seeds-can-be-borrowed/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:06:25 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=79338 Is it just us, or does it seem as if there’s an unusually large number of quirky library stories floating around lately? Thanks in no small part to the digital revolution, many municipal libraries today are watching their budgets shrink at the same time they find themselves having to defend against accusations of irrelevance. But there [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/the-uks-20-most-borrowed-authors/feed/ 0 Scorecard allows libraries to evaluate e-book offerings from publishers http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-scorecard-that-lets-libraries-give-feedback-on-e-book-offerings-from-publishers/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-scorecard-that-lets-libraries-give-feedback-on-e-book-offerings-from-publishers/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:20:45 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=77855 I didn’t even realize the Christian Science Monitor had its own literary/books blog. I stumbled upon it yesterday (it’s called Chapter & Verse), and like the rest of the paper, it’s wonderful. A post that went live two days ago caught my attention; it’s about a so-called “Business Model Scorecard” that was recently released by [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-scorecard-that-lets-libraries-give-feedback-on-e-book-offerings-from-publishers/feed/ 0 New OverDrive Site Not Meeting User Expectations? http://www.teleread.com/library/new-overdrive-site-not-meeting-user-expectations/ http://www.teleread.com/library/new-overdrive-site-not-meeting-user-expectations/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:49:43 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=77774 Late last year, OverDrive began rolling out a new look to their site. My own library in Fairfax County had a “New Look Coming” banner up for several weeks. When I tried it out for the first time, my reaction was, “Not great, but I can live with it.” I wasn’t crazy about the new [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/new-overdrive-site-not-meeting-user-expectations/feed/ 5 Dwarf-Sized Public E-Libraries vs. Abundance http://www.teleread.com/library/dwarf-sized-public-e-libraries-vs-abundance-listen-to-veteran-publishing-guru-brian-oleary-and-librarian-sarah-houghton/ http://www.teleread.com/library/dwarf-sized-public-e-libraries-vs-abundance-listen-to-veteran-publishing-guru-brian-oleary-and-librarian-sarah-houghton/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:00:28 +0000 David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/?p=77169 People in Bexar County, Texas, should be excited about the 10,000-e-book “BiblioTech” library system that the country is starting from scratch—without paper books. This is reportedly the first U.S. public library system to shun paper, cardboard and ink, except for computer printouts. Any books are better than none, and besides, the 10K figure encompasses only copyrighted books, not the tens of thousands of free [...]

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