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Here’s one in the NYT - Cell Phone Apps Challenge the Rise of eReaders
Publishing Point meeting with Michael Healy, Executive Director, Book Rights Registry
Trial of e-textbook business models to start in UK
Samuelson Says She Has Same Pricing, Privacy Concerns About Google Settlement - 11/18/2009 - Library Journal
E-books go to college, but books still rule the […]

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 Time and Tools Are Ripe for On-Demand Acquisitions, Say Charleston Speakers - 11/12/2009 - Library Journal
Revised Google Book Settlement presented to the Court: Limited to U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K.
The End of Single-Purpose Devices
Barnes & Noble Nook Pre-Orders Exceed Expectations
Study: In Downturn, Academic Libraries To Focus on Value, ROI - 11/5/2009 - Library Journal

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School tries e-books – and gets sued
Smartphone eBook Readers Multiply
Everything We Know About Apple’s Touchscreen Tablet
The E-Reader Explosion: A Cheat Sheet

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Interesting article in USA today about the Cushing Academy, a New England Boarding School, that has bypassed the print library for a digital one, using the Kindle.  Here’s a couple of quotes from the Headmaster, Jim Tracy.
“It was really to save libraries five, 10, 15 years down the road,” he says. “What the students are […]

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David Rothman: How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan
Two-faced gadget is e-reader plus netbook
BookServer: A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books
Google Editions Embraces Universal E-book Format
Report on Nook news conference: B&N switching to ePub—plus other news conf tidbits
College students resisting Kindle DX, says AP—but someone thinks it […]

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Interesting post in the SSP’s blog - the Scholarly Kitchen, written by Joseph Esposito.  Esposito discusses “library bypass,” which as he describes, is another way for publishers to reach paying customers.  Esposito says that libraries have limited money and are partial in these times to open access materials, not another high priced package from a […]

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Institutional Subscriptions to Google Books with Advertising? Google Won’t Rule It Out - 10/12/2009 - Library Journal
NY Times - Does the brain like e-books?
Why e-books are getting hotter and hotter
Ebook Accessibility Issues Trouble OverDrive and Adobe - 10/14/2009 - Library Journal
E helping to reduce book-sales decline
US Library of Congress’ Digital Collection Among World’s Largest

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Congrats to two fellow Ohioans (Cathy Anson and Ruth Connell) on the publication of an ARL Spec Kit - “E-book Collections“  Their research discusses the practice of ebook selection, acquisition, and marketing in major academic libraries, based on survey responses.  According to Cathy Anson from John Carroll University, “Our findings present a behind-the-scenes look at […]

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Interesting article in today’s NYT about public libraries, eBooks, and digital lending.  Neat and nifty tools for users to easily download and read books without visiting the library, fears of publishers losing money and therefore not selling their ebooks to libraries, and eBook readers and the lack of content to download to certain ones are the main […]

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Articles from the past week include:
O’Reilly online web conference Ebook Strategy and Innovation - panel reports
Top 20 List of World’s Largest Publishing Co’s - an analysis
Harvard, National Library of China Embark on Digitization Project
Single Purpose E-Book Readers are Dead - Tennant: Digital Libraries - Blog on Library Journal
Three kinds of e-book illegals: Felix Torres tutorial […]

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