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It is fashionable to declared Digital Rights Management (DRM) dead. And maybe in the world of music it is. For eBooks in the library marketplace, however, DRM is alive and well. The book publishers who may be more conservative than the music industry in trying to protect their intellectual property are willing to stymie sales in electronic formats to maximize their sense of security. In the ideal open-yet-market-driven eBook environment there won't be DRM, but regardless of whether DRM lives on, the closed vertically integrated world of eBooks sales to libraries presents a bigger problem; it is that environment that needs to change.
Opening the eBook Market
The day library patrons can download and read a library ebook directly on a mobile device will be the day I can die happy. We’re not there yet. It’s still stupidly complicated to get a library ebook onto a device. Anytime there’s a step involved along the lines of “now, connect your device to your computer…”, they’ve lost me for good.
How To Get Library Ebooks on the iPad/iPhone, No Sync Required " LJ Insider
Future of eReading might not be iPad, but Blio | Creating the 21st-century classroom | eSchoolNews.com
Blio's makers say it will allow students to interact with textbooks in full color. Despite all the buzz about Apple’s iPad tablet and how it could be useful for reading electronic textbooks, a new software program on the way might hold even more promise for education. Blio , a free eReader program that is expected to be available in February, reportedly will allow users to read more than a million electronic books on nearly any computer or portable device, with the ability to highlight and annotate text, hear the text read aloud, and more.
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A software application that revolutionizes the digital reading experience, for the first time offering full-color, 3-D viewing, language translation and accessibility features.
Blio is a FREE eReading application that presents eBooks just like the printed version, in full color, and with all of the features you’d want from an eReader. So welcome to what eReading should be…welcome to Blio.
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NEW YORK , May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid surging demand and interest in e-books, Baker & Taylor, a leading provider of digital media services to publishers worldwide, and LibreDigital , Inc., a leading developer of digital publishing solutions, today at Book Expo America announced an expanded agreement to partner for the delivery of e-books– creating a one-stop, comprehensive suite of services for publishers. The pair's enhanced digital services platform spans all forms of digital media – books, newspapers and magazines – and all digital devices and applications, including the Baker & Taylor-powered Blio e-reader software, developed by K-NFB Reading Technology, and Apple's iPad. "Digital devices and new applications are creating unique opportunities in the publishing industry. Baker & Taylor and LibreDigital together present a white-label platform for the aggregation and delivery of digital media products," said Tom Morgan , CEO of Baker & Taylor.
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-- Library Journal, 05/26/2010 Just today a representative of Google explained again that the new Google Editions, ebooks in the "cloud," makes no provisions for libraries as customers. Thus it was apt that the following open letter from librarians in California and Florida arrived in our in-box. They ask library colleagues, if they agree with the letter’s proposal, to send copies to the book vendors with which they have relationships "and otherwise encourage them to offer e-books to the library community in ways that work with our business model."
Librarians to Ebook Creators and Sellers: Library Model Needed - 5/26/2010 - Library Journal
“Libraries provide free access to both the computers and the content—what we’re trying to do is make [the latter] more cost-effective for libraries,” Christopher Warnock, ebrary CEO, told LJ . While ebrary is using the same platform, there's little overlap with the academic ebook collection, officials said. PLC will feature some 20,000 mostly nonfiction ebooks available via a multiuser subscription package.
ebrary Launching into Public Library Market with New Collection - 5/24/2010 - Library Journal
No Shelf Required — A moderated discussion of the issues surrounding eBooks, for librarians and publishers.
Her Majesty The Queen today launched a unique online resource that makes available all the personal journals of Queen Victoria. The Bodleian Libraries working in partnership with The Royal Archives and information company ProQuest, have for the first time ever, made the private records of one of the world’s most influential public figures available for the public to access at www.queenvictoriasjournals.org . [Read more →] This digital supplement addresses critical issues related to ebooks, e-content, digital literacy, and more!
calibre - About
calibre started life on 31 October, 2006, soon after the release of the SONY PRS-500, the first e-ink based reader to be sold commercially in the US. At the time, I was a graduate student, with a lot of time on my hands. The PRS-500 did not work at all with Linux, my operating system of choice, so I decided to reverse engineer the USB protocol that it used, to get it working on Linux. This was accomplished with the help of the fine folks over at mobileread.com and calibre was born, albeit named libprs500 .ebookshare - eBook Torrent,Free eBooks Download
Publication Date: September 29, 2011 Piper is a seventeen-year-old high school senior, and she's just been challenged to get her school's super-popular rock ba...MobileRead Forums
The nominations will run through midnight EST May 30 or until 10 books have made the list. The first poll will then be posted and will be open for 4 days, followed by a 3 day run-off poll between the two * top vote getters. The Mobile Read Book Club (MRBC) is an informal club that requires nothing of you.MyiLibrary
MyiLibrary ® is an industry-leading e-content aggregation platform for public, academic and professional libraries around the world. Our unique platform offers organizations the ability to acquire and access digital content on an individual title, publisher-specific or subject collection basis, based on their unique requirements and resources. With nearly 250,000 titles currently available, covering all major disciplines, and an additional 5,000 titles being added monthly, MyiLibrary is the fastest-growing and most comprehensive online e-content platform on the market today. We work with the world’s leading commercial publishers including Encyclopaedia Britannica, Taylor & Francis, McGraw-Hill, Wiley, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Springer and Elsevier. We also provide exclusive access to intergovernmental publications from groups such as the International Atomic Energy Agency, the International Labour Organization and the World Health Organization.The Open Library
I haven't hunted around other people's trees much, but I'm always getting notices of people using my pearls. I didn't know we could have conversations, either. I'm still reorganizing after the great Delicious migration. by Aug 28