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Fast Company
June 2012
Rachel Arndt |
The Second Coming Of Charlie Sheen And Other Crash-And-Burn Celebs Charlie Sheen is back on TV with a new show, Anger Management, premiering on FX this month. It's clearly aimed at capitalizing on his flameout, but does anyone care anymore?   |
Fast Company
June 2012
Kate Rockwood |
Where Disney's Spending Its Big Dollars In 2012 Revenue for Disney's Parks and Resorts division grew to $11.8 billion in the last fiscal year, up 10%. That's allowed the company to make some major investments this year |
Information Today
May 10, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Form `Newco' -- A New Chapter for Ebooks On April 30, 2012, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced the end of their ongoing litigation and a joint partnership to further develop the NOOK and ebooks lines. |
Information Today
May 10, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases Ebook Subscription Collection for Business Professionals BusinessCore is designed to support the learning and research needs of business professionals. The collection is available as an annual subscription with unlimited access to the content. |
Information Today
May 10, 2012 |
Thomson CompuMark Launches 136 New Trademark Databases The company says the addition of this content will make Thomson CompuMark the world's largest provider of trademark screening data. |
Information Today
May 10, 2012 |
ProQuest Joins 1940 U.S. Census Community Project ProQuest's participation in the project provides major financial support to the indexing effort, which enables all its partners to ingest content more affordably, providing timely delivery to their users. |
Information Today
May 7, 2012 |
CrossRef Announces FundRef Pilot CrossRef has announced FundRef, a pilot collaboration between scholarly publishers and funding agencies that will standardize the names of research funders and add grant numbers attributed in journal articles or other scholarly documents. |
Information Today
May 3, 2012 |
CrossRef Launches CrossMark Update Identification Service The CrossMark system will alert researchers to important changes that may occur to published scholarly content and will highlight important publication record information. |
Information Today
May 3, 2012 |
Ebook Consumers Say Yes to Tablets, Says BISG Study Ebook consumers' preference for tablets is accelerating rapidly as dedicated e-readers drop in popularity, according to the Book Industry Study Group's closely watched "Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading" survey. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012 |
eLife Announces Editors, Launches Website The editorial board of eLife, the new journal for life and biomedical science launched with the support of HHMI, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, announced the names of the more than 150 reviewing editors who will help deliver on the initiative's commitment to change peer review. |
Searcher
May 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Feature: The Ebook Wars - Amazon Versus the Rest The move to electronic publication of books is creating some of the same issues and problems for publishers and distributors that the music industry -- not to mention, the information industry -- has been dealing with for years now: disintermediation. |
Information Today
April 30, 2012
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Look for Circulating Law Ebooks at a Library Near You LexisNexis and OverDrive announced that they have agreed to create customized ebook lending and management services, offering "the largest collection of authoritative legal ebook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms." |
Information Today
April 30, 2012 |
ebrary Announces New Ebook Solution for Medical Libraries The new, discounted packs include essential ebooks from publishers such as Informa Healthcare, F.A. Davis Company, and Oxford University Press that are purchased outright under a perpetual archive model. |
Information Today
April 30, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases 39 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets provide libraries with convenient ways to begin or expand their ebook collections with current, reputable content from leading publishers. |
Information Today
April 26, 2012 |
Bilbary Announces Ebook Partnerships With The State Library of Kansas and Taylor & Francis Both partnerships will help Bilbary build its competitive platform, as well as add a number of titles to its growing ebook catalog. |
Fast Company
May 2012
Rachel Z. Arndt |
"The Biggest Loser" Cashes In On The Screen And On The Ranch NBC's weight-loss empire is growing a little (ahem) bigger this month, as the Biggest Loser Resort opens just outside Niagara Falls, New York. |
Fast Company
May 2012
Sarah Turcotte |
Discovery's True-Crime ID Network Boosts Ratings With Original Programming How the black sheep of the Discovery media family, true-crime network ID, finally cracked the ratings case. |
Fast Company
May 2012
Ellen McGirt |
Chris Hughes's Big Plans For The (New) New Republic The veteran of Facebook, the Obama campaign, and cause-themed startup Jumo sounds like the modern media mogul he's just become. |
Information Today
April 19, 2012 |
Baker & Taylor and Findaway World to Launch Audiobook Platform Baker & Taylor and Findaway World, LLC announced plans to launch a robust digital audiobook platform for public libraries and retailers later this year. |
Information Today
April 16, 2012 |
OverDrive to Preview Library Ebook Data at London Book Fair Data from OverDrive's global library network to be made available to participating libraries and publishers includes information about ebook and digital audiobook title circulation, book demand and holds, as well as web traffic and general demographics. |
Information Today
April 12, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Tsunami -- From Antitrust to Burgeoning Sales The ebook tsunami is still in play; new issues, problems, and possibilities occur almost daily. We can do little more than watch, wonder, and improvise as the forces of innovation and commercialism work through this time of change in publishing. |
Information Today
April 12, 2012 |
More Than 30,000 Spanish Language Titles in eBooks Kindle en Espanol Amazon.com, Inc. has a new Spanish-language ebook store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store entitled, "eBooks Kindle en Espanol." |
Information Today
April 9, 2012 |
BioMed Central, LabArchives to Link Data Sets With Journal Articles Through a new collaboration, authors submitting articles to selected BioMed Central journals will be provided with complimentary subscriptions to an enhanced version of the popular LabArchives Electronic Laboratory Notebook software. |
Information Today
April 9, 2012 |
Tablets Become Newsstands for Digital Magazines Through Next Issue Media Next Issue Media launches a tablet newsstand designed specifically for Android tablets. |
Information Today
April 5, 2012 |
Ex Libris' Primo Central Adds 78 A&I Sources Ex Libris Ltd., provider of library automation solutions, announced that RMIT Publishing has made additional scholarly content from its diverse collections searchable in the Primo Central Index. |
Information Today
April 5, 2012 |
Android Etextbook App Available From Ingram's Vital Source As students look for more ways to interact with digital textbooks, they are increasingly turning to smartphones and tablets powered by the Android operating system. |
Information Today
April 2, 2012 |
Bowker's Global eBook Monitor Generates Usage Statistics Bowker Market Research's Global eBook Monitor studies the rate of adoption and buyer demographics of ebooks in 10 major markets. |
Information Today
April 2, 2012 |
Springer for R&D Platform Launched for Corporate Sector Springer Science+Business Media launched a new corporate platform, Springer for R&D, which provides access to more than 5.6 million research documents, all optimized for specific corporate markets. |
Information Today
April 2, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
Expanding Options for Ebooks Here are some of the recently launched services that are aiming to redefine the book experience. |
Chemistry World
April 2012 |
Opening the Doors of Knowledge Should all journal articles be free to access online? |
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