WSJ interview with Michael Hart: Long overdue–but why no mention of Distributed Proofreaders?
Amid all the Google-related fuss over digitized books, the Wall Street Journal has interviewed the real pioneer of e-books, the inimitable Michael Hart. Big question: Why doesn't the WSJ piece credit...
Morning Links: A comic book to teach copyright. Libraries reinventing in the digital age.
Lawyers Say iPods Deleted Songs Not Purchased from Apple (GigaOM)
Songs on iPods not purchased through Apple mysteriously disappeared on some devices, say consumer advocate lawyers in the current suit against the...
Morning Links: UK Gov’t releases library lending report
Report: Penguin to Cease Windowing Library Titles (Digital Book World)
UK Government Releases New Report on Library Lending (Good e-Reader)
Battle Lines Drawn in HarperCollins/Open Road eBook Suit (Publisher's Weekly)
License Restrictions: A Fool's...
‘Texas Digital Library – Getting Out from Behind the Ivy Wall’
"From the 7/13 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Ed comes the news that Rice University and four other Texas university systems will be joining forces to create the Texas Digital...
National Library of Israel’s Collection of the Newton Manuscripts Now Available Online in Digital...
From the National Library of Israel Web Site
The manuscripts found at the National Library are from the collection of Abraham Shalom Yehuda (1877-1951), an expert in Middle Eastern affairs. Professor Shalom Yehuda...
5 million manuscripts, films and texts for Europeana
From the press release:
Work begins this week to add over 5 million digital objects to Europeana from 19 of Europe’s leading research and university libraries. The project is called Europeana Libraries...
Interactive maps reveal London’s history in unprecedented detail : JISC
From the press release:
Interactive maps reveal London’s history in unprecedented detail : JISC: "Locating London’s Past is a new JISC-funded website that lets users delve deep into the capital’s past, revolutionising...
OverDrive vs. Amazon: Video and e-books could be bloody battlegrounds
OverDrive, the e-book company that loves to inflict proprietary DRM on libraries, hopes to make it big in library video. But could Amazon get in the way? Amazon reportedly is about...
Kirklees considers “nuclear option” as UK libraries holocaust continues
The West Yorkshire town of Kirklees is contemplating closure of all but two of its 26 libraries, along with other services like braille books for blind readers, as one option while...
Quick Notes: Penguin & Amazon bury the hatchet, international iBookStore, cheap iPad stand idea,...
Reuters reports that Penguin and Amazon have come to an agreement allowing Penguin’s books to be sold for the Kindle once again. Penguin’s books had been absent since the April...
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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...
