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The Rise of Phone Reading. Last fall, Andrew Vestal found himself rocking his baby daughter, Ada, back to sleep every morning between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. Cradling Ada in the crook of his arm, he discovered he could read his dimly-lit phone with one hand. That’s how he read David Mitchell’s 624-page science-fiction saga “The Bone Clocks.” Mr. Vestal’s iPhone has offered him a way to squeeze in time for reading that he otherwise might have given up.

He reads on lunch breaks. He even reads between meetings as he walks across Microsoft’s Seattle campus, where he works as a program manager. Before he tried it, he wondered whether reading in snippets might be dissatisfying. Ever since the first hand-held e-readers were introduced in the 1990s, the digital-reading revolution has turned the publishing world upside down. “The future of digital reading is on the phone,” said Judith Curr, publisher of the Simon & Schuster imprint Atria Books. One reason people are reading on phones is convenience. Mr. Western University sur Twitter : "Happy 90th (!) birthday @westernuBooks! #bookstores #westernu #cdnpse #ldnont #bestbookstore #underthewire. “Self-interested authors want to save libraries”? | The Grubtown Daily Herald. I go on quite a bit about wanting to save libraries. I’m not one of the great public campaigners — and thank Heavens that there are people doing such sterling work out there, even though they must feel they’re banging their heads against a brick wall sometimes — but keeping libraries open is something I feel strongly about.

On more than one occasion, my passionate opinions have solicited the response: “Well, you would want to save libraries, wouldn’t you? It’s in your interest, isn’t it?” The first time this was said to me, I was at a loss for words. Momentarily, I’ll admit, but lost for words. Before I go any further, let me flag up to the three most (seemingly) obvious ways I, as an author, benefit FINANCIALLY from libraries: 1.Some libraries stock some of my books. 2. Can you see that crazed, Midas-like glint in my eyes? But my selfishness when it comes to libraries runs far, far deeper than that. I first visited libraries as a child for pleasure and to find things out. TOC 2012: LeVar Burton, Libraries and The Bookstore of the Future. O’Reilly Media’s Tools of Change conference returned to New York with a typically high profile slate of publishing innovation driven by technology and a new vision of just what publishing can mean. This year’s TOC kicked off with an inspirational keynote by actor, director and now digital entrepreneur, LeVar Burton, before turning quickly to the big issues surrounding libraries and e-book lending and a new and breathtaking vision of independent bookselling.

Burton, who is heading a startup multimedia children’s publishing venture called RRKidz that is based on his work hosting PBS’s Reading Rainbow program for many years, delivered an inspirational keynote speech focused on the role of reading—in particular science fiction—in his own life. While Genco’s presentation looked at the “voracious” media consumption of all library users, she singled out the power patrons for leading the way.

“They buy print books and e-books and read across all platforms from print to audiobooks,” she said.

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Welcome to Open Library. OverDrive advocacy efforts and new services for library lending of digital books. Field of Glory | Ottawa Public Library | BiblioCommons. Ebook (R)evolution. MysteryBooks.ca | The best in international crime, suspense, and thriller books. Penguin Reaffirms Support for ALA; Spurns OverDrive. Today is the end of Penguin books on OverDrive, but perhaps the start of new possibilities. In an announcement yesterday, the publisher gave notice that as of today, Penguin books would no longer be available on OverDrive. This latest escalation follows the earlier withdrawal of Kindle loans through OverDrive (later restored and now made more difficult again) and the pulling of any new books and audiobooks from the popular library digital loan service. In the statement released by Penguin, however, the publishing group reaffirmed its commitment to ALA and libraries.

“In these ever-changing times, it is vital that we forge relationships with libraries and build a future together. . . . Our ongoing partnership with the ALA is more important than ever, and our recent talks with ALA leadership helped bring everything into focus.” My interpretation of this is that Penguin is joining others in expressing dissatisfaction with the OverDrive model. Imagining a University Press System to Support Scholarship in the Digital Age. EPUBs are an experimental feature, and may not work in all readers.

Abstract I outline a possible future system of many distributed university presses mainly focused on the editorial production of scholarly monographs, supported by a very small number of digital platforms for managing and delivering these monographs as a database rather than transactionally to academic and research libraries. I also touch on the ongoing evolution of various types of scholarly books into (often much more costly) networked information resources and the implications this has for the overall dissemination of scholarship and the roles of university presses. Introduction This paper begins with a brief survey of the major types of works produced by today’s university presses, considers the problems faced in publishing each type of work, and reflects on the unique contributions of university presses that we might seek to preserve.

Today’s Landscape Monographs. Nine truths about e-book publishing. I fell into digital publishing after doing freelance work for various online business start-ups based in East London. At the time, I was looking for a full-time job and not thinking so much about career progression, but it occurs to me now that my background with the online businesses left me peculiarly suited for working with e-books. The main reason for this is that, since the traditional publishing industry has been forced to go digital, it has found that the Internet Age has changed consumers’ expectations of digital products for good and it is no longer enough for the e-book just to be the electronic manifestation of the printed book.

E-books and websites exist in the same world, competing for the top spot on Amazon or Google respectively and drawing similar expectations from the consumers, about their appearance, functionality and interactivity. TWO GENERAL POINTS1. 2. SEVEN SPECIFIC ONES3. 4. 5. 6. 8. 9. Cp_dl_web_2012_en. I Love Reading: EPUB and PDF. For the first part of this series, I want to talk about a few of the formats commonly used for reading digital text as well as the tools — software and devices — we can use to read them. Library ebooks are available in EPUB, PDF, and Kindle format. The Library also subscribes to hundreds of databases, some of which will allow you to download articles or page images for personal use in PDF format.

Jump to files and formats: Jump to software and devices: on Mac or PC, iPad, Kindle, Android Device. Formats The difference between EPUB and PDF It helps to think of a PDF as a snapshot of a page in a physical book or journal. Bursunsul and Paskualina is a PDF ebook. I know you're probably saying, what about Kindle? For additional formats in varying degrees of obscurity, see Wikipedia's comparison. Borrowing library ebooks Start by browsing our ebook catalog (also integrated in our full catalog) to find ebooks in EPUB, PDF, and Kindle format. We have hundreds of databases. Public domain ebooks. All Hallow's Read. MegaReader iPhone App Gives Access to Internet Archive's 1.8 Million Free Books in a Personalized Reader. From prweb: Inkstone Software today announces the launch of MegaReader—a highly customizable iPhone eBook reader that gives users the choice of over 1.8 million free books on the internet.

The MegaReader app has been designed to tap into book catalogs such as Feedbooks, Project Gutenberg, Baen Free Books, Smashwords, and the Internet Archive—allowing users to discover not only the classics (such as Sherlock Holmes, Pride and Prejudice, and War and Peace), but also up and coming modern indie authors and publishers. “We are thrilled to contribute to Inkstone’s efforts to bring the enjoyment of these books to readers around the world” said Peter Brantley, Director of the BookServer Project, Internet Archive.

Free Books : Download & Streaming : Ebook and Texts Archive : Internet Archive. Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here. The American Libraries collection includes material contributed from across the United States. Institutions range from the Library of Congress to many local public libraries. As a whole, this collection of material brings holdings that cover many facets of American life and scholarship into the public domain. Significant portions of this collection have been generously sponsored by Microsoft , Yahoo! , The Sloan Foundation , and others. Books contributed by the Internet Archive. Free books for the  people with disabilities that impact reading.

Books in this collection may be borrowed by logged in patrons. This library of books, audio, video, and other materials from and about India is curated and maintained by Public Resource. Uploads from the general users of ARCHIVE.ORG related to Islamic culture, studies and related subjects. Collection of texts by language.