Google project is full-service library NOT
"The five institutions with Google have not comprehensive digitization of their entire collections. This corpus is only the beginning. Partnerships with users/patrons is/are the real juice." - The Real Paul Jones,...
TeleRead and the limits of search engines
In the New York Times today, Jim Fallows complains that "even the best search engines are surprisingly ineffective" for "anything but simple keyword queries." He gives as an example his quest...
U.K. library users turning away from books
Visits are up in UK libraries, but book-reading is down. One reason, I suspect, is that the Brits have been so bloody-miserly in their funding for new books for public libraries....
E-book debate: What the fuss should REALLY be about in the library world
Why can't Andrew K. Pace, not e-book-hating Michael Gorman, be president-elect of the ALA?
The debate in libraries shouldn't be over e-books versus the dead-tree kind, says Pace, but over the...
What a universal digital library needs–and how Paul Jones can help now
So what do we need for a universal digital library in the TeleRead vein?
Below are four requirements, or at least ways to hasten the coming of such a library.
The...
How an e-book hating Luddite became ALA’s prez-elect
So how did ALA end up with a Lud who hates e-books and blogs? One reason: Michael Gorman lived in a big state with lots and lots of followers with insufficient...
HollywoodMoney.org
Hollywood is one of the biggest threats to copyright over the long term--given all the Draconian law that it's bought from Washington via campaign donations.
Someday there may be a backlash, and...
Library privacy and anonymous digital cash
Amid calls for a nastier Patriot Act, it's good to see an Information Today column and BlogJunction offering ideas to protect the privacy of library users both offline and online. In...
Major German project vs. Google library digitization effort
Details via Search Engine Watch and ResourceShelf.
E-book mentions in J.D. Lasica’s Darknet–and a radio interview and first impressions of the...
E-books are among the examples of DRM-and-copyright-related stupidity in Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation.
J.D. Lasica's new book comes across as well-reported, informative and hyper-readable
Deservedly it's the topic of...
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...
