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From the EBL blog:
We’ve recently announced that EBL titles can be downloaded to the Sony Reader, but did you know that EBL’s new reader is already accessible on an iPhone and iPod Touch?
Patrons can access EBL  titles on their iPhone or iPod Touch through the normal webpages.  The image view in the reader will […]

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From Teleread, author not listed:
FTC Digital Rights Management town hall meeting: summing up
Posted: 26 Mar 2009 09:39 AM PDT
 I have had a day to think about what I saw at the FTC’s town hall meeting on Digital Rights Management yesterday, and what it might mean for the future of DRM. The conference fell into […]

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npr’s All Things Considered program had a really nice piece on ebooks and DRM - the good and the bad.  You can listen or read it here.
In the story, authors are presented as anti-DRM, no restrictions, they want people to read their material not be locked out by restrictions.  In contrast, the Amazon Kindle VP […]

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You’ve probably read the news about the University of Michigan Press going digital only with most of their titles.  They’ve decided to jump to the future business model ahead of many publishers, by going digital now, rather than later.  I like their reasoning for the move.  Phil Pochoda, Director of the UM Press was quoted […]

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From the wired.com blog
Sony Adds Half a Million Public Domain Google Books to Reader
By Charlie Sorrel March 19, 2009 | 5:36:39 AMCategories: Books
Sony has inked (e-inked?) a deal with Google to bring half a million public domain books to its Reader e-book device, but surprise! Being a Sony service it looks to be […]

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Thanks to the 100+ Librarians who attended our ACRL session on Patron Initiated Purchasing.  During the presentation, Alice and I surveyed the attendees, using audience response systems.  These results have been posted to the ACRL Virtual Conference.  In a nutshell:
85% of you have collection development responsibilities
94% purchase ebooks
61% were familiar with patron driven/patron initiated models
13% […]

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Concerning my previous post on Gale/YBP, I had a chance to talk with John Barnes at Gale/Cengage regarding the pricing of GVRL titles through the YBP service.  According to him, GVRL prices will remain the same using various tiers, based on FTE.  Within the next month, YBP will load all of the Gale patron data […]

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Great news from Gale/Cengage and YBP (Baker & Taylor).  GVRL, LitCrit and Gale Directory titles can now be purchased through YBP services.  This is wonderful news and comes on the heels of the recenet B&T and ebrary partnership.  Clearly publishers and aggregators are finally working together to make purchasing ebooks as seamless as the print […]

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Big news from Baker & Taylor.  They announced today a partnership with ebrary for an “integrated digital media platform.”  B&T will provide seamless purchase of either print or electronic content through this new platform.  The partnership also allows B&T to create it’s own digital content for distribution via the ebrary platform.What a convenience for libraries.  No longer […]

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NSR introduces a new interview with Susan Danziger, CEO and Founder of DailyLit.   Susan discusses the idea behind DailyLit, to bring books to readers in small bit and pieces, via email or RSS feed.  For more info on DailyLit see the NSR Sept. 2008 blog post.
Catch up on other NSR interviews by visiting the interviews […]

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