We've all read the news stories about this college or that college removing books from their libraries. Stanford was one of the first to go bookless back in 2010, and...
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Category: Digital Library
Findaway Launches Wonderbook, a Hybrid Print-Digital Audiobook Player
Cleveland-based Findaway gets most of its attention on this blog for its audiobook distribution (as well as services like Chirp) but in the library market it is better known...
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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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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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HarperCollins’ Audiobooks Now Available Though bibliotheca’s cloudLibrary
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 adding...
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Jisc Now Offers Digital Textbooks
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...
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BiblioTech’s Newest Bookless Library Will Also be the Largest
Since 2013 Bexar County's Bibliotech digital library has opened two local branches as well as kiosks in a hospital, bus terminal, and on local military bases. San Antonio Express...
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Croatia Launches Free Digital Reading Zone
In what was being inaccurately described as being as the first of its kind, earlier this month Croatia established an open digital library: Croatia, what is now an open...
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Bibliotech Digital Public Library Sets up Shop in a Hospital
When Bexar County opened its all-digital public library branch, Bibliotech, in 2014, it capitalized on the lack of space devoted to warehousing books by devoting more space to computer labs,...
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Overdrive Ends Magazine Partnership with B&N Nook
In February 2015 Overdrive announced that it had struck a deal with B&N to provide the current issues of 1,000 different magazine titles. Libraries could pay a subscription fee and their...
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San Antonio Launches Bibliotech Library Kiosks at Area Bus Stations
Bexar County Public Library got a lot of press coverage several years ago when it opened its book-less Bibliotech library branch, and now it is taking the show on...
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Bexar County to Open Its Third All-Digital BiblioTech Library Branch in 2017
Bexar County made headlines in 2013 when it became one of the many libraries to open a book-free, all-digital library, but it didn't stop there. Its second all-digital branch opened last...
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The Open eBooks Program Brings eBooks to Students Who Need it Most
eBooks have the potential to bring an unending supply of reading material to those who need it most, but not all schools and public libraries can afford to pay...
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Quartz Foresees the End of Library (As We Know It), But Misses the Bigger Picture
With more and more libraries going bookless in order to free up space for other uses, the form of the modern library is rapidly shifting from a primary focus on...
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