Judge decides mostly in favor of Georgia State University in e-reserves case
A decision has come down in the Georgia State University e-reserves case, which we’ve covered here, here, and here. The case concerned electronic compilations of course material that professors bundle together...
OverDrive Says Developer APIs Will Become Available in July
OverDrive APIs that were supposed to launch in April are now set to become available in July.
From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog:
OverDrive’s product and development teams have been hard at work...
ProQuest and Dutch National Library Announce Book Digitization Partnership
From A PQ Announcement:
ProQuest will digitize more than 30,000 rare early books from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), the National Library of the Netherlands, capturing every volume in high-resolution color scans. This...
NOAA’s National Weather Service releases three new digital collections
New from NOAA/NWS:
1. Hurricane Reports
Beginning with Hurricanes Edna and Hazel in 1954 and ending with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Hurricane Reports contain preliminary advisories and...
Morning Roundup: Libraries driving digital transition, Canada Writer’s Union to accept self-published authors
New Report Hails Librarians as Drivers of Digital Transition (The Digital Shift)
The Alliance for Excellent Education (All4Ed) published the report “Leading In and Beyond the Library,” this past January, showing the...
How to evaluate an e-bookstore
The ladies at Dear Author.com, having given us a great guide to the Tower of eBabel, are at it again--this time with advice on evaluating e-bookstores. No, it isn't billed as...
AMAZON
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...
