No Shelf Required

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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From the Gale/Cengage RE:sources blog, May 2009
Widgets pack a wallop
Results from K-12 school, academic and public libraries confirm that usage soars when you add the ability to search all or part of your Gale Virtual Reference Library collection with a widget. Comparing the number of user sessions before and after the addition of a widget […]

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 NFAIS and Drexel’s iSchool are co-sponsoring a workshop on June 26th in Philly titled “Google, the Web and the Future Roles of Publishers and Librarians.” Â
More info can be found on the NFAIS site.  I’m certain eBooks will come up somewhere in this program.

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Ebook sales continue to rise - latest IDPF info
By Paul Biba  teleread.orgWell, it looks as if the rationale for TeleRead’s existence is still extant. Ebook sales are just continuing to increase. Here’s the info I got by email from Michael Smith of the IDPF this afternoon:

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Roger Sperberg wrote an interesting piece, “How to give away an ebook after you’ve read it” in the Teleread blog.  He discusses the idea of patrons purchasing an ebook to read for themselves and donating it to the library when they are finished.  Roger states, “If I buy an ebook of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, […]

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From RI Newsline:
Over the next three months readers at the British Library can try out three e-book readers from Sony and iRex Technologies … Devices on display include the Sony Reader, the iRex DR1000 and the iLiad.
From the press release, “Offering a hugely versatile reading experience, e-readers have seen an explosion of interest in […]

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ebrary Integrates with RefWorks and EndNote, Adds Printing to QuickView, Offers Search by Collection

May 18, 2009 – Palo Alto, CA, USA – ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced that it has enhanced its industry-renowned interface with a number of new capabilities that make content discovery, usage, and management quicker […]

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from Teleread.org
University of Pittsburgh Press makes 500 titles avaialable
By Paul Biba
The following is a press release I thought you would find of interest:
PITTSBURGH—The University of Pittsburgh Press, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Library System and the Chicago Digital Distribution Center (CDDC), is making nearly 500 out-of-print Press titles available again for scholars […]

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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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The NYT had a very interesting article yesterday on the book piracy.  It highlights the increasing amount of illegal sites to download pirated eBooks, or print books that were scanned.  Publishers are spending much more staff time and hiring large legal departments to track down sites.  Here’s a quote from the article:  “It’s a game […]

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