Libraries

Toronto Public Library Hits Milestone with 20 Million eBooks Borrowed

19 August, 2018 // 0 Comments

The major publishers may be blocking libraries from buying ebooks, but that has only slowed adoption; it didn't stop the Toronto Public Library from reaching a new milestone. The TPL announced on [Read More ...]

Forbes Deleted That Ridiculous Anti-Library Piece

24 July, 2018 // 3 Comments

On Saturday Forbes published a poorly-researched, badly-argued piece that failed to convince anyone that Amazon Books stores should replace public libraries. According to Quartz, the piece was [Read More ...]

Updated: Amazon Books Should Replace Local Libraries, and Other Publisher-Serving “Solutions”

22 July, 2018 // 14 Comments

Do you know how companies sometimes like to buy editorials that support their position (I see this a lot in the WSJ), or even go so far as to fund think tanks to produce position papers to order? I [Read More ...]

Updated: Tor Books is Now Windowing Library eBooks

19 July, 2018 // 10 Comments

Tor Books has just demonstrated that the decision makers at Macmillan are surprisingly ignorant on the basic principles of microeconomics in general. Earlier this weeks Tor Books informed libraries [Read More ...]

Readers Have Borrowed More Than 1 Billion Books Through OverDrive

20 March, 2018 // 3 Comments

Overdrive just announced on their blog that they have loaned a billion ebooks since they first started lending ebooks in 2003. From OverDrive: One billion. It’s a defining number that’s hard to [Read More ...]

“The Whistler” by John Grisham was the Most Popular Library eBook Last Year

11 January, 2018 // 2 Comments

A couple weeks back Amazon revealed that the most read Kindle ebook this past holiday season was Dan Brown's Origin, and now Overdrive says it was quite the popular library ebook as well. Overdrive [Read More ...]

SFWA Finally Notices Internet Archive’s Decade Old Open Library, Decides It’s Piracy

9 January, 2018 // 21 Comments

I like to stay on top of relevant news and development in the publishing industry, but sometimes I might miss a story and only find out weeks or months later. I used to kick myself for missing stuff, [Read More ...]

Hoopla Adds Marvel Graphic Novels and Comics

9 December, 2017 // 0 Comments

Hoopla offers a subscription service to libraries where a library can pay based on how many titles are used by patrons. It's a "pay-per-use" type of service which includes movies, ebooks, and now [Read More ...]

Google Added Local Library eBook Listings to Search Results

18 September, 2017 // 6 Comments

Google just made it a little bit easier to check ebooks out of your local library. Google announced today that they have integrated public library catalogs into their search results. I can't see the [Read More ...]

San Diego Suburb Votes to Outsource Its Public Library Despite Outcry

29 August, 2017 // 1 Comment

We're all familiar with public libraries outsources certain functions, including their catalog, Wifi network management, ebook platforms, and (sometimes) the acquisition of new materials. But did you [Read More ...]

Texas School District Converts Buses into Rolling Libraries

24 August, 2017 // 2 Comments

The Bexar County, Texas, Bibliotech library system may not have pioneered the idea of an all-digital library but it has become the poster child for the idea. Bibliotech has opened multiple digital [Read More ...]

HarperCollins’ Audiobooks Now Available Though bibliotheca’s cloudLibrary

8 August, 2017 // 1 Comment

Back in June HarperCollins was one of several major publishers that started distributing their ebooks and audobooks to libraries through pay-per-use services like Freading. Now the publisher is [Read More ...]

Jisc Now Offers Digital Textbooks

7 August, 2017 // 2 Comments

Digital library vendor Jisc has found a back door to shove institutional- or site-licensed digital textbooks through. Last week Jisc announced a partnership with Bibliotech, the next doomed digital [Read More ...]

Draft2Digital Now Distributes to Overdrive

1 August, 2017 // 4 Comments

Draft2Digital has just announced that they can now distribute ebooks to OverDrive: We’re pleased to announce that, starting today, Draft2Digital now distributes to OverDrive, enabling our authors [Read More ...]

RBdigital Offers eBooks, Audiobooks, and Magazines in a Single App

5 July, 2017 // 0 Comments

OverDrive's Libby app lets you read ebooks or listen to audiobooks, but the RBDigital app from Recorded Books goes one better. Recorded Books has just announced the release of a new version of the [Read More ...]

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