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Morning Links: Amazon Acquires Liquivista, OverDrive Unveils Big Library Read

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:52:09 +0000

‘Unbundling’ in the Book Business: The Fourth Big Trend (Shatzkin Files) A few weeks ago, I wrote that there are three big forces driving the future of publishing: scale, verticalization, and atomization. I was wrong. eBook Spending on the Rise (Digital Book World) In 2012 ebooks accounted for 11% of all book spending, according to a recap [...]

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Morning Links: Fan community calls out illegal comics sharing

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:26 +0000

Authors and Book Rights: Some More Truths (Future Book) Nook Press Updated: Now Lets Users Edit Previously Published Books (The Digital Reader) Fan Community Calls Out Illegal Comics Sharing (Good e-Reader) Sourcebooks, OverDrive Launch Pilot to Demonstrate Impact of Library Lending on Sales (Paid Content) Kindle Daily Deals: Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley (and 3 [...]

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Weekend Roundup: Digital publishing news you may have missed

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:37:58 +0000

OverDrive and Sourcebooks to Launch Ambitious E-Book Data Experiment (Library Journal) Goodreads Alternative Riffle Goes Live (Publishers Weekly) How much does a Pulitzer affect books sales? (Melville House) Codex Group: Ebooks to Level Off at 30% of Publishing Revenues, With Caveats (DBW) Kindle Daily Deals: A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving (and 3 others)

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Morning Links: OverDrive on Linux; Canada Post goes crazy; and more

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:00:21 +0000

OverDrive Media Console Now Available on Linux (Good e-Reader) 9 Ways Big Pub is Like Big Pharma (Huffington Post) Canada Post Claims Exclusive Use of Word ‘Postal Code’ (Boing Boing) The Digital Truths Traditional Publishers Don’t Want to Hear (The Guardian) Kindle Daily Deals: Archie Meets Nero Wolfe by Robert Goldsborough (and 3 others)

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Morning Links: Ebook anxieties increase; no jury for Penguin; and more

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:27:57 +0000

OverDrive’s Upcoming API Will Allow Ebook Checkout Directly from OPAC (The Digital Shift) Publishing should fight ebook retailers for more data (Boing Boing) Ebook anxieties increase as publishing revolution rolls on (The Guardian Judge: No Jury for Penguin in E-book Case (Publishers Weekly) Kindle Daily Deals: American Gods by Neil Gaiman (and 3 others) [...]

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Prices of e-books for libraries could slow their digital growth

Susan Lulgjuraj — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:00:47 +0000

While I’ve been reading e-books for several years, I didn’t get catch on to borrowing e-books from the public library until recently. I’m a big proponent of the library and borrow physical books often, but using the Overdrive app happened a bit too late. Once I started using it, well, I haven’t been able to [...]

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Overdrive Media Console (App Review)

Juli Monroe — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:20:14 +0000

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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DOJ Approves Penguin Random House Merger

Juli Monroe — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:37:01 +0000

One hurdle down. Several more to go with the EU, Canadian Competition Bureau and various other antitrust authorities around the world still needing to weigh in on this. Penguin’s settlement with the Justice Department was a move to smooth the way for this merger, and it looks like that move worked. Note that Random House, [...]

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New OverDrive Site Not Meeting User Expectations?

Juli Monroe — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:49:43 +0000

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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Morning Links — Amazon up, B&N down

Joanna Cabot — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:26:39 +0000

OverDrive to Bring Digital Manga to Libraries (Good E-Reader) Amazon Reports Increased Profits and eBook Sales (GigaOM) Barnes & Noble’s Hardest Lesson: It Pays to be Small (Fortune) How Much Should eBooks Cost? (Huffington Post) Kindle Daily Deals: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (and 3 others)

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OverDrive Announces Streaming Video and Audio Services

Aggregated Content — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:15:32 +0000

Earlier this week, OverDrive announced that it will enhance its industry-leading library service platform with streaming video and audio technology. The new services will improve ease of use and device compatibility for OverDrive-hosted video, audiobook and music collections at libraries and schools around the world. OverDrive will demonstrate its streaming technology this weekend (Jan. [...]

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Why We Need a Subscription Model for E-Books

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:00:17 +0000

Brett Sandusky at Digital Book World has an interesting write-up on digital subscriptions. He ruminates on the pros and cons of two different models: the ‘modular’ subscription, where customers subscribe to one thing at a time, as they wish, versus the bundle model, where customers pay a fixed amount for a package deal which includes the [...]

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Morning Links — FAA Facing More Pressure on Device Usage

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:07:18 +0000

FAA Facing More Pressure to Change Rules on Electronic Device Usage (Techdirt) Authors Benefit from Teamwork on Promotion (Good E-Reader) The Guardian Reveals an Important Truth About Article Comments (Scholarly Kitchen) OverDrive, 3M Kick Off 2013 With Promising eBook Developments (The Digital Shift) Kindle Daily Deals: The Devil’s Waters by David L. Robbins {and 3 others} [...]

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Morning Links — The mysterious case of book cover theft

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:44:49 +0000

A Collection of Suspiciously Similar Book Covers (Flavorwire) Jennifer Egan: how Twitter inspired my e-book (The Guardian) E-Book Downloads from Libraries Hit Records on Christmas Day (App Newser) Kindle Daily Deals: Casino Royale by Ian Fleming {and} Jewball by Neal Pollack {and} 48 other mysteries and thrillers! * * *

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Survey: Library Borrowers Buy Books Too!

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 17:39:35 +0000

Multiple sources are reporting today on this newly released survey (PDF) on the buying habits of library e-book borrowers. The survey questioned over 75,000 e-book borrowers, and found that more than half of them buy books, too. It also found that dedicated reading devices still account for a significant chunk of the market. (The survey was [...]

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