Librarian’s Guide to Manga Available (Free) as OverDrive Begins Offering Manga Content
From Resource Shelf:
Manga is the Japanese word for “comic book,” and a type of graphic novel. Traditionally rendered in black and white, printed on coarse paper, and designed to be portable,...
US Air Force libraries provide ebooks of Chief of Staff reading list titles
From Overdrive's Digital Library blog:
In 1996, the Chief of Staff (CSAF) of the US Air Force created a professional reading list to develop a common frame of reference among Air Force members...
Librarians Feel Sticker Shock as Price for Random House Ebooks Rises as Much as...
Here's another one from The Digital Shift:
New prices for Random House’s ebooks took effect on Thursday, and as the details emerged a number of librarians across the country expressed dismay at...
Quick Notes: London Book Fair, Prizmo, Overdrive audiobooks, Barnes & Noble + Salon, Apple
TheBookseller.com has a piece from the London Book Fair looking at opposition to the idea of “enhanced” e-books. Karolina Sutton, senior agent at Curtis Brown, expresses concern that only “superbooks”...
Why the DPLA is not a public library, despite its many virtues and the...
Editor’s note: This is Part One of Jim Duncan's LibraryCity series on the Digital Public Library of America and public libraries. Part Two is here.
A decade ago, doomsayers insisted that the...
Northern VA library director does author podcasts: Great example of localized library content
E-books will displace paper books eventually, creating an inevitable question for local libraries. "What's our mission?" Books are just one kind of library holding, of course. Still, what if people find...
ebrary to distribute Oxford U Press, others giants in new deal–but let’s look ahead...
Distributing online books via ebrary's Dynamic Content Platform (DCP) will be Oxford University Press, Brill Academic Publishers, Manchester University Press, SAGE Publications, and Artech House. But how durable will the PDF-oriented...
UK Digital Economy Bill may ‘effectively outlaw’ public wifi
A controversial Internet regulation bill moving forward in the United Kingdom has champions of public wifi access up in arms. The Digital Economy Bill copyright law would extend the...
Long lag time between physical and e-book loans from the library
On the very same day, I placed a hold for an e-book version of Dan Brown’s "Inferno" on OverDrive, and for the actual physical book in my local library's system.
I’m not...
California library branch considers removing books
Related to yesterday’s story about whether libraries could be replaced by e-book readers comes a story that one California public library branch is considering doing away with all of its books....
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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...
