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Have you heard of DailyLit? - it’s pretty cool.  DailyLit provides small installments of books to users through an email message or RSS feed, daily.  Hey, since it’s not a piece of paper, I consider this an eBook!  It was built on the premise that we don’t have time to read books, but yet we still […]

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Now here is a great use for eBooks - increasing access to traditional print textbooks for students with disabilities.Â
SOCHE, the Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education  received a grant to provide an online library of electronic textbooks to qualifying students at 12 institutions in Ohio.  These electronic textbooks offer students with disabilities the chance to listen […]

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This morning I “attended” the Springer webinar on eBook usage.  It was very informative and obviously focused on Springer content, but it did confirm some of my suspicions about eBook usage.   Here are some highlights:
They use COUNTER, as do most other eBook publishers/aggregators.  COUNTER is incredibly detailed with usage stats….are you using yours to investigate […]

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If you are one of the 8,500 libraries using the OverDrive Media Console for digital audiobooks, you now have a new feature - compatibility with Microsoft’s Zune.  Both DRM-free and DRM-protected (Digital Rights Management) audiobooks are compatible.  This now opens up the direct transfer of audiofiles to Zune, iPod, and virtually all other mp3 devices.
For […]

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Attention public, school, and community college libraries.
Infobase, publisher for Chelsea House, Facts on File, Ferguson, and Bloom’s Literary Criticism will release it’s own eBook platform this Fall.  However, titles will still be available from previously established interfaces.
Current titles and backlist titles will be available at launch (1800+) and forthcoming titles will also come in e […]

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Super cool!  Duke University Press has just released their scholarly eBook collection.  The collection includes over 100 titles and is run on the ebrary platform.  If you are not familiar with ebrary, they are an eBook aggregator and offer institutions the opportunity to load their own material into the ebrary platform.  Clearly, Duke University Press has taken […]

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What is DRM?
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, coding added to digital content to control access.  DRM prevents copying, editing, and sharing of digital files.   You may have come across DRM in your personal use of digital music or digital video recorders.  More importantly, if your library offers or plans to offer ebooks, audiobooks, DVDs, […]

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Gale and Greenwood eBook Partnership Expands     Â
Current Greenwood Titles Now on Gale Virtual Reference Library
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Farmington Hills, Mich., September 12, 2008 – Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, and Greenwood Publishing Group have enhanced their partnership to include more high-demand Greenwood titles, including more than 130 titles released in 2008 as eBooks on Gale Virtual Reference […]

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OCLC and Recorded Books have signed an agreement under which Recorded Books eAudiobooks will continue to be available to libraries through NetLibrary.
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Bob Murphy +1-614-761-5136
murphyb@oclc.org
Recorded Books will introduce new eAudiobook collections
to libraries through OCLC’s eContent platform
DUBLIN, Ohio, September 12, 2008—OCLC and Recorded Books have signed an agreement under which Recorded Books eAudiobooks will continue […]

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The new and improved EBL online reader is set to be launched on 23rd September 2008 and we’re inviting you to preview it…
The new reader features improved design and layout enhancements, and offers patrons these brand new features:
    *  Fast-loading image view as well as PDF view -the image view gives readers the ability to […]

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