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Forbes Deleted That Ridiculous Anti-Library Piece

24 July, 201824 July, 2018DeBunking, Libraries3 Comments

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...

Updated: Amazon Books Should Replace Local Libraries, and Other Publisher-Serving “Solutions”

22 July, 201824 July, 2018DeBunking, Libraries14 Comments

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...

Updated: Tor Books is Now Windowing Library eBooks

19 July, 201819 August, 2018Library eBooks, Publishing14 Comments

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...

Readers Have Borrowed More Than 1 Billion Books Through OverDrive

20 March, 201820 March, 2018Library eBooks, Overdrive3 Comments

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...

“The Whistler” by John Grisham was the Most Popular Library eBook Last Year

11 January, 201811 January, 2018Library eBooks, Overdrive2 Comments

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...

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...

Google Added Local Library eBook Listings to Search Results

18 September, 201726 September, 2017Google, Library eBooks6 Comments

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...

San Diego Suburb Votes to Outsource Its Public Library Despite Outcry

29 August, 20176 September, 2017LibrariesOne Comment

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...

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...

Draft2Digital Now Distributes to Overdrive

1 August, 20171 August, 2017Library eBooks, Overdrive, Self-Pub4 Comments

Draft2Digital has just announced that they can now distribute ebooks to OverDrive: We’re pleased to announce that, starting today, Draft2Digital now distributes to OverDrive, enabling our authors...

RBdigital Offers eBooks, Audiobooks, and Magazines in a Single App

5 July, 20175 July, 2017Library eBooksLeave a comment

OverDrive's Libby app lets you read ebooks or listen to audiobooks, but the RBDigital app from Recorded Books goes one better. Recorded Books has just announced...

The Problem with Hoopla’s Pay-Per-Loan Model

26 June, 201727 June, 2017Library eBooks14 Comments

Publishers like HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster have recently shown increased interest in the pay per loan library ebook services offered by Freading and Hoopla, but at...

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