Sony’s new e-reader is unveiled–along with plans to popularize its eBabel favorite
Sony unveiled its new e-reader yesterday--along with its strategy for positioning its tongue within the Tower of eBabel against rival formats.
"The Sony Reader" reportedly will cost $299-$399 and go on sale...
‘Kindle killed the library book’: Tracey Ullman video mocks miserly U.K. pols
Even as a lover of e-books, I laughed at this hilarious video titled "Kindle killed the library book."
It pokes fun at the mean-spirited U.K. politicians shutting down hundreds of brick-and-mortar local libraries. Props to actor-comic Tracey...
Baltimore librarian Carla Hayden nominated as Librarian of Congress: Will her Patriot Act opposition...
Carla Hayden is President Obama’s nominee for Librarian of Congress. She is CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, an African-American and a former president of the American Library...
Steve Potash, OverDrive CEO and library e-book pioneer: A TeleRead interview
Steve Potash started digitizing books long before it was cool.
Now in his 60s, the CEO of OverDrive began digitizing law books in the 1970s, thinking this was the next big step in the publishing...
Easier downloads of OverDrive library books coming ‘relatively soon’ for Kobo e-readers and apps
Easier downloads of OverDrive library books are on the way "relatively soon" for Kobo e-readers and apps.
OverDrive CEO and Founder Steve Potash revealed this during a TeleRead interview. The entire Q&A will...
Toronto Catholic School Board Cuts Every Teacher-Librarian
It's budget time here, and every municipality in my area is trying to balance the books. One of the more controversial cost-cutting tactics to come to light this week is the...
Are libraries squeezing Kindle users out of ebook services by dropping OverDrive?
Some disconcerting reports on the KBoards and Amazon forums point to an unsettling trend among U.S. and other public libraries. Posters and respondents report multiple instances of local libraries dropping OverDrive...
‘Is OverDrive destroying public libraries?’
That's the question a MobileReader asks in a post about the largest supplier of e-books for U.S. public libraries.
"LovieDovie" writes in part:
"As this trend of OD providing most ebooks and audio books to...
Where and how to find libraries using OverDrive
ACCESSING THE LIBRARY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT Overdrive Library resources are online 24/7. Some of the libraries were ready for the Kindle this morning, but others...
Canadian librarians approach accommodations with more publishers over e-book pricing
The Toronto Star has a piece on Canadian Public Libraries for Fair Book Pricing, the coalition of 29 Canadian public library systems that has been pressing major publishers for better licensing...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
