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HaithiTrust Adopts CDL on an Emergency Basis

1 April, 20201 April, 2020Digital LibraryOne Comment

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...

Library of Congress Expands Its Collection of Open Access eBooks

29 March, 202029 March, 2020Digital Library8 Comments

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...

Rakuten Sells Overdrive to Private Investment Firm

25 December, 201925 December, 2019Digital Library, Overdrive9 Comments

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...

Feedbook, Aldiko Bought in Bankruptcy Sale for 230,000 Euros

29 August, 20191 September, 2019Digital Library, e-Reading Software11 Comments

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...

Pop-Up Library Opens at Baton Rouge Airport

27 August, 201927 August, 2019Digital LibraryOne Comment

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”...

Why College Libraries Are Going Bookless

26 May, 201926 May, 2019Digital Library, Library eBooks30 Comments

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...

Findaway Launches Wonderbook, a Hybrid Print-Digital Audiobook Player

2 May, 20192 May, 2019Audiobook, Digital LibraryLeave a comment

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...

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

9 January, 201823 January, 2019Digital Library, Intellectual Property, The Authors Guild21 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...

Hoopla Adds Marvel Graphic Novels and Comics

9 December, 20179 December, 2017Comics & Digital Comics, Digital LibraryLeave a comment

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...

Texas School District Converts Buses into Rolling Libraries

24 August, 201728 August, 2017Digital Library2 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...

HarperCollins’ Audiobooks Now Available Though bibliotheca’s cloudLibrary

8 August, 201715 August, 2017Audiobook, Digital LibraryOne 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...

Jisc Now Offers Digital Textbooks

7 August, 201715 August, 2017Digital Library, Textbooks & Digital Textbooks2 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...

BiblioTech’s Newest Bookless Library Will Also be the Largest

15 March, 20174 April, 2017Digital LibraryOne Comment

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....

Croatia Launches Free Digital Reading Zone

28 December, 201613 May, 2017Digital Library2 Comments

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...

Bibliotech Digital Public Library Sets up Shop in a Hospital

19 October, 201619 October, 2016Digital Library3 Comments

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...