No Shelf Required

Received a press release from Gale/Cengage today. Baker and Taylor will now distribute the GVRL e-book collection, Lit Crit, and the Directory Library.  B&T is the first wholesaler to sell GVRL.  See the full press release below.

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Thanks to TeleRead for the heads up on this one.
eBook  Readers and Standards…..Where to Next?
Webinar, November 18th, 11:00 EST
Speakers:  Michael Smith, Director of the IDPF and Sarah Rotman Epps, eBook Market Analyst at Forrester
As the eBook market rapidly unfolds, it seems to get more complex by the day. Publishers are struggling to adapt as competitive […]

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Interesting article in USA today about the Cushing Academy, a New England Boarding School, that has bypassed the print library for a digital one, using the Kindle.  Here’s a couple of quotes from the Headmaster, Jim Tracy.
“It was really to save libraries five, 10, 15 years down the road,” he says. “What the students are […]

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ebrary is launching a monthly sweepstakes for a free ebook a month for one’s institution - complete with ebrary’s  InfoTools.  To enter, just recommend an ebrary title.  Details of the contest are below, in the ebrary press release.  This is a fun idea, but I have to chuckle.  Can you imagine having a sweepstakes for […]

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If you are headed to Charleston next week and have Wednesday free, please consider attending the preconference.  The full program is listed here. Summaries/highlights will be posted to the blog after the event.
EBOOKS:  NOT JUST ANOTHER BINDING
XXIX CHARLESTON CONFERENCE - ISSUES IN BOOK AND SERIAL ACQUISITION
CHARLESTON, SC, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2009:
eBooks are not just another […]

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David Rothman: How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan
Two-faced gadget is e-reader plus netbook
BookServer: A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books
Google Editions Embraces Universal E-book Format
Report on Nook news conference: B&N switching to ePub—plus other news conf tidbits
College students resisting Kindle DX, says AP—but someone thinks it […]

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Bowker and AAP sponsored a webinar today on US Consumer Book Buying.  It was incredibly well organized and full of good data.  My notes and comments are included below.
Speakers

Tina Jordan (AAP)  moderator
Kelly Gallagher (Bowker) speaker

2009 data, first 6 months, based on what consumer is buying/reading

2008 - e-commerce the dominant channel for book sales, beating out […]

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I attended the Adobe eBook Platform webinar today.  Some notes and thoughts are below:
Dave Dickson, Product Manager, was the primary speaker
Publishers want to produce eBooks in a single file format, but consumers want to purchase the eBook in the format of their choice
Adobe’s role - to be an enabler.  Publishers author in either pdf or […]

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NSR Readers,
I’m writing to ask for 10 minutes of your time to complete a survey about online reference databases.  I’m trying to gauge interest in a variety of features offered in online reference databases (think GVRL, Credo, SRO, ORO, ABC-CLIO, etc).  My results will be used in a presentation I am co-presenting at the Charleston […]

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New from ebrary, a subscription database on food science.  According to the press release, “With more than 110 current and essential reference works, handbooks, manuals, and e-books from the industry’s top publishers such as CRC Press, Elsevier, Marcel Dekker, and Woodhead Publishing, the subscription database covers such topics as food manufacturing and processing, safety, quality […]

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