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Today I had a great conversation with Cathy Anson, Director of Sponsored Research and Ruth Connell, Head Collection Management and Systems Administration, Grasselli Library at John Carroll University.  They are the researchers behind the ARL Spec Kit 313 - E-book Collections.  Cathy and Ruth discussed the survey findings, including the biggest surprises and some notable […]

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Heather Staines, Global eProduct Manager for SpringerLink, Springer Science + Business Media, and I had a nice conversation about Springer’s eBook preservation strategy.  The conversation was based on Heather’s article in Against the Grain, February 2009.  Heather discusses Portico, LOCKSS, and general eBook preservation issues.   Listen to Heather’s interview and many others through the NSR […]

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Spoke with Erik Christopher, Digital Services Sales Manager at Blackwell about their Collection Manager System for eBooks.  Blackwell is partnered with EBL, ebrary, and Ingram Digital.  Erik’s interview is linked from the NSR interviews page, one of many in our series.
For more information on this product, I’ve attached a pdf of Blackwell’s Collection Manager.  The […]

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iFactory is an web development company in Boston.  They have developed Sage Reference Online, Rosen’s Teen Health & Wellness, and several Oxford University Press products.  NSR got to talk with Tom Beyer, Director of Publishing at iFactory about eBook interfaces and the future of eBooks.  Tom and 15 other interviews are listed on the NSR interviews page.Â

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NSR has a great new interview posted with Andy Weissberg, VP of Identifier Services and Corporate Marketing at Bowker.  One of Andy’s tasks at Bowker is the ISTC, the International Standard Text Code.  This interview discusses the ISTC, ISBN, and other standards which relate to the publishing industry (for ordering/selling/tracking) and for libraries.  It’s a […]

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I just got my hands on the April 2009 issue of Against the Grain, and lo and behold an interview with NSR’s Sue Polanka.  The interview was done by Dennis Brunning from Arizona State University in his cheeky style and is followed by his humorous interview with Kindles 1 and 2.  The article is not […]

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Christoph Chesher, Group Sales Director at Taylor & Francis is the newest interviewee in the NSR series.  Christoph discusses the variety of business models and aggregator access to eBooks from Taylor & Francis (Routledge, CRC Press, Garland Science, Psychology Press, and others) as well as the dilemmas the eBook market still faces.
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One of my favorite blogs is Teleread, an eBook blog started way back in 1992.  Yesterday I was able to speak with Paul Biba, Co-Editor of Teleread.  We had a great conversation about the blog, eBooks in the mass market, DRM and standards.  Check it out on the NSR interviews page.  Thanks Paul!

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We’ve posted a new interview to our interviews page.  This time, it’s with Kari Paulson, President of EBL.  In this interview, Kari discusses various business models offered by EBL and unique features of their interface.  She references some case studies that were done by CERN and Swinburne University.  Kari’s interview adds to NSR’s collection of […]

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Last week NSR interviewed Roger Rosen, President and Publisher of Rosen Publishing.  We discussed the process of a small publisher moving from print to an electronic environment.  Download and listen to the interview, posted  on the NSR interviews page.�

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