Publish and They Will Come…Right? (Digital Book World)
Creating awareness is the most fundamental and crucial step in the book discovery process–and it is a process; discoverability does not end there.
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How Middle School Reading Lists Have Evolved Since 100 Years Ago (GalleyCat)
Annie Holmquist over at BetterEd.org dug up the curriculum manual from a 1908 middle school reading list to compare it with modern reading lists.
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Libraries Loan Out 105 Million eBooks in 2014 (GoodeReader)
Libraries that do business with Overdrive loaned out 137 million digital assets in 2014, which is a 33% increase from 2013.
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Industries That Are Ripe for Disruption (The Simple Dollar)
Who’s going to shake up airline travel or cellphone plans?
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Kindle Daily Deal: To Find a Mountain (and others)