Here's a bit of news that will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with academic libraries. Forbes reports that Amazon is still a distinctly second-tier retailer in the...
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Category: Libraries
The Authors Guild Calls for a “Public Lending Right”
The Authors Guild looked at the survey report on author income that they released a couple weeks ago, and they have come up with a solution that won't actually...
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65 Libraries Each Loaned Over a Million Titles Last Year
Rakuten Overdrive released its end of year report yesterday. The company now supports over 43,000 libraries and schools worldwide, including 65 public library systems that each loaned over 1...
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Penguin Random House Dramatically Worsens License Terms for Library eBooks
PW reports that starting next month, Penguin Random House is changing its license terms for library ebooks from "insanely expensive" to "ridiculously expensive and short-lived". As of October 1,...
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Toronto Public Library Hits Milestone with 20 Million eBooks Borrowed
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...
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Forbes Deleted That Ridiculous Anti-Library Piece
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 deleted Monday...
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Updated: Amazon Books Should Replace Local Libraries, and Other Publisher-Serving “Solutions”
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...
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Updated: Tor Books is Now Windowing Library eBooks
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...
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Readers Have Borrowed More Than 1 Billion Books Through OverDrive
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...
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“The Whistler” by John Grisham was the Most Popular Library eBook Last Year
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...
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SFWA Finally Notices Internet Archive’s Decade Old Open Library, Decides It’s Piracy
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...
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Hoopla Adds Marvel Graphic Novels and Comics
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...
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Google Added Local Library eBook Listings to Search Results
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...
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San Diego Suburb Votes to Outsource Its Public Library Despite Outcry
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 know that...
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Texas School District Converts Buses into Rolling Libraries
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...
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