UNC Announces Launch of Digital Innovation Lab New Swedish ebook platform – Platify – opens | TeleRead Which is the best format for ebooks? | Ask Jack | Technology | guardian.co.uk Will Amazon’s ‘Digital Library’ Kill the Physical One? Let’s Hope Not – Technology Review School Libraries Struggle with E-Book Loans | MindShift JibJab Lets [...]

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First Street, a new political intelligence product from CQ Press, a division of SAGE Inc., offers a look into the relationships between legislators, lobbyists, and others influencing policy making in the US.  The product launched earlier this year.  They have been releasing topical reports, highlighting the lobbying in the topic area as well as the [...]

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Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog: Interview with Inkling Founder/CEO Matt MacInnis on Reinventing the Publishing Industry Why an ebook still needs an index – O’Reilly Radar Data Monday: eReaders & eBooks Digital Public Library of America “Beta Sprint” Walkthrough…09.06.11 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog More and more, college students go buy the e-books [...]

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Amazon Coming to Spain Next Week – Kindle Store to follow? – eBookNewser Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Is Very Real. I’ve Seen It, Played With It. | TechCrunch Hybrid Books: ‘Illuminations’ And The Future of the eReader On the evilness of the emerging ebook app ecosystem … We Ask Ken Wissoker: Do We Need to Rethink [...]

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Picked up a tweet today from @goodtokno about this new Pew report, The Digital Revolution and Higher Education.  Some snippets of the study are listed below, taken from the Pew study website.  It’s pretty clear from the results that digital content will be necessary to support higher education. Of particular interest is the estimate on [...]

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Exclusive: What Electronic Textbook Provider Has The Biggest Library? Why Print Can Exist in Harmony with Digital | Apartment Therapy Unplggd The Laboratorium: Google Books Settlement, 2008-2011 Next Steps in the eReader Journey: The Nook Simple Touch « The Unquiet Librarian Digital Public Library of America announces “Beta Sprint” | TeleRead Court of Appeals kills [...]

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Amazon Student app lets students buy and resell textbooks, other items | TeleRead The Centered Librarian: Readable college textbooks on Facebook GenCon panel: Michael Stackpole on self-publishing in a post-paper world | TeleRead Will print and ebook publishers ultimately be doing the same books? – The Shatzkin Files Kno Taking Electronic Textbooks to Web, Facebook [...]

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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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From an Ingram Press Release:  Ingram Content Group Inc. today announced that Vital Source has grown its e-textbook offering with the acquisition of VPG Integrated Media (VPG), a leading developer of award-winning enhanced e-textbook applications, interactive learning objects and e-whiteboard content, and state-of-the-art video, audio, and animation production services for educational publishers. The acquisition of [...]

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