The future of the book site offers a short video demonstration of the Booki.sh Reader, developed by Inventive Labs in Melbourne.  It is designed to work in modern web browsers like Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.  More information can be found on the booki.sh blog. Hat tip to Xplana blog.

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The Public Library Funding and Technology Access Study from ALA’s Office for Research and Statistics just released their 2009-10 statistics.  Included in this report was  U.S. public libraries providing access to ebooks – which was 65.9% A sampling of the % of Libraries Providing E-Books In: Florida–86.9% Hawaii–100% Illinois–46% New York–71% Ohio–83% Oregon–70.8% Washington–48.6 Note: [...]

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