Oyster, a Spotify/Netflix-Like Service for E-Books Launches, Is the Library Community Preparing for These Types of Services? Earlier this week we mentioned a new Spotify/Netflix-like service for ebooks launching named eReatah. The mention is located in a post about Amazon’s Kindle Online Lending Library (KOLL) now offering access to more than 400,000 titles (a number of them self-published, type of material that Douglas County, CO Libraries are offering users access to). Allow us to repeat what we said the other day and have been saying for nearly two years: The library world needs not only to be aware of KOLL and other “Netflix” like services but plan for similar types of services in the works. 11 months ago in this infoDOCKET post we introduced another “Nettflx” like service for ebooks named Oyster that was in the development stage.
Say Hello to Oyster Today, Oyster launched a private beta. You can register for an invite here. Subscribers pay $9.95/month for access to unlimited number of ebooks. More specifics about Oyster below. We Need to Prepare (We Should Have Been Doing This More than a Year Ago) Hardly. 10 Web Tools To Make Books Even Better. Teachers might see the Internet as the enemy of old-fashioned books, but the two entities can actually compliment each other nicely. Websites devoted to reading and literacy help children connect with other readers, delve deeper into what they are reading, and discover new books of interest. And they provide teachers with ideas for the classroom. Your students could start an online book group, write reviews on a website, or use Internet tools to research a favorite author. We’ve gathered ten of the best free, reading-related websites to inspire you and your young readers. Image via Flickr by Jill Brown 1. Goodreads is the largest reading site on the web and a great tool for high school students.
Teachers can create a private group for their class to discuss books or make book-related quizzes for their students. 2. BiblioNasium has many features similar to Goodreads but is made for younger readers. BiblioNasium is a great resource for motivating students to read. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. E-Content Digital Supplement June 2013. Juvenile Series and Sequels: Titles (A) Teen Books Online | Epic Reads. Thinking beyond the (summer) list. Bookshelf Porn.
Introduction. The purpose of this database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards. I expect the user to be a librarian or a teacher intervening for a child-reader, however anyone may make use of it to find the best in children's literature including parents, book store personnel, and children and young adults themselves.
DAWCL has over 12,000 records from 145 awards across six English-speaking countries (United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, and Ireland). Click the link Explanation of Awards above to see a list of awards, their countries, and a brief explanation. Each book is indexed to some degree so users can find it using the form search or the keyword search. As I read a book, I index it more fully. Naturally, DAWCL is always a work in progress, so results will change with the addition of new awards, award-winners, and my reading/indexing habits. See the Developments Log for more detail.
Historical Fiction Book Lists. Juvenile Series and Sequels: Titles (A) EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection EarlyWord: The Publisher | Librarian Connection » The Publisher | Librarian Connection. Photo book pricing. Quality books, affordable price. Free ePub Converter - Convert PDF and other types of documents & ebooks to ePub format. Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels. It's almost a cliche at this point to say that teen fiction isn't just for teens anymore. Just last year, the Association of American Publishers ranked Children's/Young Adult books as the single fastest-growing publishing category. Which is why we were only a little surprised to see the tremendous response that came in for this summer's Best-Ever Teen Fiction poll.
A whopping 75,220 of you voted for your favorite young adult novels, blasting past the total for last year's science fiction and fantasy poll at, dare we say it, warp speed. And now, the final results are in. While it's no surprise to see Harry Potter and the Hunger Games trilogy on top, this year's list also highlights some writers we weren't as familiar with. For example, John Green, author of the 2012 hit The Fault in Our Stars, appears five times in the top 100. Summer, like youth, is fleeting. Issuu - You Publish. Book release dates. Speculations on the Future of the Book at MIT Conference.
At the Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book conference held on May 3-4 at MIT there was no handwringing by publishers or booksellers, in this case mostly rare booksellers, over print book sales or discussion of the DoJ lawsuit. Instead the symposium, organized by two postdoctoral fellows in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, Amaranth Borsuk and Gretchen E. Henderson, lingered most on what forms the book might take. The answer varied from Christian Bök’s The Xenotext, an attempt to genetically engineer a bacterium to store a poem in its genome, to Nick Montfort’s computational poem, 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, a one-line Commodore 64 BASIC program, to Bob Stein’s SocialBook, a post-print publishing platform that allows users to share comments and drawings on books and articles read in Web browsers.
Founded in 2010, SocialBook continues to evolve. Other books involve patterns and are more closely related to computer programs or video.