I received this news release from Ingram this morning about their new service, Life PrintSM.  This service will manage the distribution of a print title, using one electronic file and order process.  It merges print on demand with outside book printing companies.  It sounds really interesting to me.  I’ll be anxious to see how it [...]

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From an Ingram Press Release: Ingram Content Group Expands Color POD Solution to U.K. and Europe The addition of color book printing in the U.K. accelerates speed to market MILTON KEYNES, U.K. – Ingram Content Group Inc. today announced the launch of print-on-demand color book manufacturing in its United Kingdom facility. The new service allows [...]

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From a Bowker press release.  Lots of interesting data here about title output from 2011. June 5, 2012 (New Providence, NJ) — Bowker, the global leader in bibliographic information, released its annual report on U. S. print book publishing for 2011, compiled from its Books In Print® database. Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker [...]

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No Shelf Required has been busy this past year exploring the many topics of eBooks and libraries.  Very soon, two new publications will be available from ALA Publishing which share the No Shelf Required name.  These new publications contain completely new content, expanding upon No Shelf Required: E-books in Libraries, ALA Editions, 2011. Details are [...]

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A colleague forwarded me an Outsell article about a new venture, BookRiff.  Ned May, who wrote the article, states, “Bookriff, yet another digital publishing platform, will soon go live. Yet while it is entering a crowded field, this one is worth a close look as it has the potential to take hold, and significant potential [...]

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Sylvia Miller, Project Director for “Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement,” University of North Carolina Press has given me permission to post in entirety, the following.  It is a summary of the Long Civil Rights Movement pilot project, which took place over the past 14 months. This post contains 4 sections: 1. Close of the [...]

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Vook Explains Why $3, $4, or even $9.99 Isn’t Always the Best Price for an eBook – eBookNewser Do e-Textbooks Help Students Save Money? E-Textbooks: 4 Keys to Going All-Digital — Campus Technology Time for book publishers to fight dirty – chicagotribune.com Inkling Raises $17M for Digital Textbooks – Liz Gannes – Media – AllThingsD [...]

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Textbook Rentals Come to the Kindle: Probably Not a Money-Saver E-books, Young Professionals, and Reinventing ALA | American Libraries Magazine Amazon confirms Harry Potter e-books to be available for Kindle | TeleRead Library of Alexandria makes 19,000 titles available on the Espresso Book Machine | TeleRead Borders’ liquidation: Winners and losers – The Week Japanese [...]

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Yesterday I spoke with Dr. Sven Fund, the CEO of DeGruyter.  News to me, DeGruyter has been publishing for 262 years! We discussed DeGruyter’s ebook program including their e-ditions program.  E-ditions provides “on demand” requests for digital or print copies of thousands of backlist titles.  Listen to the interview here. Over 30 interviews with librarians, [...]

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From Eric Hellman’s Go To Hellman blog.  Please offer your comments to Eric at the Go To Hellman blog. Here’s the third section of my draft of a book chapter for a book edited by No Shelf Required‘s Sue Polanka. I previously posted the introduction; and What does Open Access mean for eBooks subsequent posts [...]

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