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Information Today October 1, 2009 |
Sony Store to Offer Ebook Self-Publishing Tool Sony announced relationships with ebook distributors Author Solutions and Smashwords to offer a self-publishing tool for the Sony online store.  |
Information Today March 8, 2012 |
Baker & Taylor Agreement With Smashwords to Bring Ebooks to Blio Using Blio, readers can sample and purchase Smashwords books, create digital libraries for purchased and sampled titles, publish text or YouTube video book reviews, and "favorite" their chosen authors, publishers, and titles.  |
Information Today April 2, 2015 |
OverDrive Marketplace Now Allows Preorders OverDrive introduced a preordering feature in its OverDrive Marketplace for all libraries, schools, and consortia.  |
Information Today January 14, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Scribd and Smashwords Working to Build New Publishing/Distribution Models for Ebooks Last month, the ebook subscription service Scribd and Smashwords, "the world's largest distributor of independent ebooks," announced a collaboration they hope will consolidate their position in the emerging independent ebook publishing/distribution marketplace.  |
Information Today February 11, 2014 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Religion Collection The collection includes ebook selections for its religion-focused student and scholarly customers titled eBook Religion Collection, which debuted with more than 4,100 titles from 150-plus publishers.  |
Information Today September 24, 2012 |
Aptara Ebook Survey of Publishers Now Available Issued in April 2012 and sponsored by Publishers Weekly magazine and Aptara, the survey tracks the ebook publishing trends, challenges, and strategies that have emerged since 2009 when the ebook market began taking shape.  |
Information Today October 15, 2009 |
Open Road Integrated Media Launches Literary Ebooks Service From Leading Author Backlists The former president and CEO of HarperCollins and film producer Jeffrey Sharp have launched Open Road Integrated Media, an epublishing company that will provide film, video, and other forms of digital entertainment.  |
Information Today June 2, 2015 Brandi Scardilli |
Public Libraries Embrace Self-Publishing Services For authors who want to self-publish their books, the public library may be the best place to find services that can help.  |
Information Today January 17, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Trends 2013 -- The New World of Ebook Publishing Changes are coming much faster in the publishing world today -- prices for titles are dropping and we are seeing the development of new models and channels for publishing, distribution, and sales.  |
InternetNews September 30, 2009 |
Sony Moves to Woo E-Book Publishers, Authors In its latest push into the burgeoning e-reader market, Sony today unveiled a new portal for aspiring authors who want to publish titles for the electronics giant's e-book store.  |
Information Today May 23, 2011 |
Print Isn't Dead, Says Bowker's Annual Book Production Report Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that despite the popularity of ebooks, traditional U.S. print title output in 2010 increased 5%.  |
Information Today June 11, 2012 Dan Tonkery |
BEA 2012: Libraries Still Draw the Short Stick Libraries do not have much to celebrate from Book Expo other than their copyright win at the Georgia State University and even that win may be short lived as the publishers have requested an injunction to stop certain types of usage of reserve material.  |
Information Today July 25, 2011 |
NetLibrary Ebooks Now Integrated on EBSCOhost Platform EBSCO Publishing's collection of more than 300,000 ebook and audiobook titles (formerly from NetLibrary) is now integrated on EBSCOhost.  |
Information Today October 15, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces 15 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets of titles from leading publishers are designed to simplify collection development by helping librarians start or enhance their ebook programs with subject-specific ebooks.  |
Information Today August 5, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Five Ways to Get Discounted and Free Ebooks The summer reading season is in full swing, and there are lots of options for downloading discounted ebooks.  |
Information Today May 6, 2013 |
ebrary Adds Titles From Wiley to Academic Complete Academic Complete serves as a foundational, growing collection with more than 86,300 scholarly titles from which libraries can pinpoint patron needs and drive strategic ebook acquisition.  |
Information Today July 1, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries.  |
Information Today September 12, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Business Collection EBSCO Information Services launched eBook Business Collection, a new assortment of ebooks for academic libraries from publishers such as Wiley and Cambridge University Press.  |
Information Today April 2009 Donald T. Hawkins |
Report from the Field: O'Reilly TOC 2009: Books, Reading, and Publishing O'Reilly Media held its third Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing conference in February in New York.  |
Information Today October 1, 2013 Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebooks Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons.  |
Information Today March 8, 2010 |
Two New Ebook Surveys Highlight Interesting Trends HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks  |
Information Today April 25, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries.  |
Information Today July 18, 2011 |
Cambridge University Press to Launch Platform for Other Academic Publishers From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide libraries with ebooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide.  |
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 March 2009 Marji McClure |
Turning a New Page in Ebooks Amazon brought renewed attention to ebooks, especially in the consumer market, with its 2007 launch of the Amazon Kindle and, most recently, the February release of the Amazon Kindle 2.  |
Information Today September 24, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Three Publishers Settle in Apple Pricing Collusion Case "In a move that could reshape the publishing industry," The Wall Street Journal declares, "a federal judge has approved a settlement with three of the nation's largest book publishers over alleged collusion in the pricing of e-books."  |
Information Today July 19, 2012 |
Elsevier Health Science Titles Now Available via eBooks on EBSCOhost The new agreement adds 965 health science titles to EBSCO's medical ebook collection with more than 580 of the titles representing coverage from 2010 to the present.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2009 Tim Beyers |
Windows Vista: Now Officially a Bad Dream Windows 7 takes in huge preorders.  |
Information Today July 30, 2012 George H. Pike |
Justice Department Responds to Ebook Lawsuit Objections The U.S. Department of Justice responded to public comments made objecting to the department's proposed settlement of price fixing charges levied against Apple, Inc., HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and four other publishers.  |
Information Today March 4, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebook Subscription Services Here's the scoop on five popular ebook subscription services, including a comparison chart for quick reference.  |
Information Today July 16, 2013 George H. Pike |
Apple Ebook Dealings Violated Antitrust Law A federal court in New York has found Apple guilty of violating federal antitrust laws, stating that the company "played a central role in facilitating and executing a conspiracy" to raise ebook prices.  |
Information Today February 14, 2008 |
Scopus Adds 600 Titles at No Extra Charge The abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources announced that it will add 600 titles to its database of 15,000 peer-reviewed journals.  |
Searcher April 2012 Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us.  |
Information Today June 17, 2013 George H. Pike |
Apple Ebook Price-Fixing Trial Underway The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, alleges that Apple conspired with several publishers to set ebook pricing as a means to counter Amazon's domination of the ebook market through its online ebook service and Kindle e-reader.  |
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Grotta & Grotta |
Self-Publishing 101 Electronic books offer a direct channel to readers  |
Information Today December 16, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Google's eBookstore Takes Ebooks to the Next Level On Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, after months of anticipation, Google officially launched Google eBookstore (previously called Google Editions), marking an important milestone for the ebook industry.  |
Information Today March 11, 2014 Brandi Scardilli |
Sony Transitions Out of the North American Ebook Market At 6 p.m. EST on March 20, 2014, the Sony Reader Store will close its virtual doors to customers in the U.S. and Canada.  |
Information Today September 18, 2008 |
Time, Inc. Subsidiary Launches New Magazine Membership Service On the MAGHOUND website, members can select up to 15 magazines from a broad range of titles represented by dozens of major publishers for one set monthly fee, with the ability to switch titles at any time  |
Information Today January 10, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Trends 2013 -- The Transformation Accelerates In the past year, the "if" and "when" questions for ebooks were answered -- electronic media are now clearly in the mainstream and even driving changes in all aspects of publication/distribution/use of information and literature.  |
InternetNews June 24, 2010 |
Massive Crowds Welcome Apple's iPhone 4 Despite early leaks and preorder glitches, it's another blockbuster launch for the closely watched Apple smartphone.  |
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 June 17, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Apple Gambles on Winning Ebook Antitrust Suit The U.S. Department of Justice came out swinging in its opening statement of its antitrust suit against Apple in New York on June 3, 2013.  |