No Shelf Required

What is an e-book?How is it different than a book, web site or database?Are there any differences between reference, monographs, or textbooks in e format?

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How do you think Kindle, Amazon’s wireless reader, will affect the development and sale of eBook content? Will Amazon’s enormous market and broad availability create a defacto eBook publishing standard?

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E-Books Can Help Reduce Your Carbon Footprint:
You see and hear the buzz words everywhere - carbon footprint, environmentally friendly and green. We’re encouraged to buy, use and dispose with the environment in mind. While it’s easy to recognize the negative impact of excess packaging and chemical content in many of the products we purchase, it’s […]

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Dear Collegues,I welcome you to participate in a new blog about eBooks. You’ll find a brief overview of the blog, No Shelf Required, below. It is live and available for your comments now. I hope you can join what will be a lively discussion on all aspects of eBooks in libraries. Regards, Sue PolankaSue Polanka […]

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One question asked by many librarians, now that I’m purchasing my reference titles electronically, should publishers be updating those titles and fixing errors prior to (or rather than) releasing a new edition?
How does this impact the print copy? Which copy is the official copy, print or electronic?Should the eBook title be an exact replica of […]

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Book Sales Increase at Year’s End
February 13, 2008, New York, NY:
Sales of University Press Hardcover books were up by 3.3 percent in December with sales of $6.8 million; sales were also up by 8.1 percent for the year. University Press Paperback sales posted an increase of 0.6 percent for the month with sales totaling $10.1 […]

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Reference Universe.Nov. 2003.ParatextREVIEW. First published November 1, 2003 (Booklist).
Reference UniverseHere is a database that librarians will really appreciate. We have spent countless hours selecting, storing, and carefully weeding our reference collections. But patrons would rather search on the Internet, and get any old answer, than use our pride and joy, our reference collections. Reference Universe […]

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2008 ALA Annual, Anaheim
Monday, June 30, 2008 10:30 - 12:00
Reference Books Bulletin (Booklist) sponsored program:
The Future of Electronic Reference Publishing: A View from the Top.
Top managers from reference publishing share their views about planning for tomorrow in a digital age and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
Speakers:
John Barnes, Exec. V.P. Marketing and Strategic Planning, […]

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Xreferplus - (Credo Reference)First published November 1, 2006 (Booklist).
Xreferplus is an online reference service with more than 2 million entries from more than 207 reference titles. With a focus on ready-reference content, Xreferplus includes subject-specific dictionaries, biographical data, statistics, quotations, and audio and image files from more than 50 publishers. There are two subscription options, […]

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Oxford Reference OnlineFirst published November 1, 2006 (Booklist).
Oxford Reference Online (ORO), a scholarly reference database, contains more than 100 quick-reference titles in nearly every field. Two collections are available, the core collection, containing the more than 113 quick-reference titles, and the premium collection, containing the former plus in-depth entries from the Oxford Companion series, the […]

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