HaithiTrust is a coalition of university libraries that have pooled their resources in order to enable faculty and students to access copies of scanned books. Access...Continue reading
The Library of Congress published a post this past week highlighting their growing collection of open access ebooks. We are excited to share that anyone anywhere...Continue reading
I do not know why they chose to announce this on Christmas eve, but yesterday Rakuten announced that it was selling Overdrive to KKR. KKR, a leading...Continue reading
Here’s a painful story to write about what was once a very interesting ebook startup. The French Canadian ebook distributor De Marque announced on Wednesday that...Continue reading
Bibliotech, the digital-first public library system in Bexar county, Texas, has gotten a lot of press attention over the past few years for launching digital “branch”...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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....Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading