Rakuten Sells Overdrive to Private Investment Firm
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
Category: Digital Library
Feedbook, Aldiko Bought in Bankruptcy Sale for 230,000 Euros
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
Pop-Up Library Opens at Baton Rouge Airport
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
Why College Libraries Are Going Bookless
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
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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....Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading
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...Continue reading