As part of OverDrive's advocacy for flexible and reasonable digital book costs for schools and libraries, OverDrive announced today three new All Access Collections of simultaneous use ebook subscriptions for libraries. Designed to address the significant growth in reader demand for eBooks within the Libby and Sora apps, libraries will delight patrons with access to a growing … [Read more...] about OverDrive All Access, Enjoy Premium Books with No Waiting
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Are Color E-readers Worth It?
Image credit: theverge Color e-readers have become an efficient way to display book content in color. These e-readers are beyond traditional devices that usually exhibit content in conventional black-and-white hues. With these high-quality color e-readers, you can display the graphic book content in a rich, vibrant, and detailed manner. Although books are generally read in … [Read more...] about Are Color E-readers Worth It?
Fair and Impartial: Here’s How Digital Books Benefits Children
Digital books have become standard for kids nowadays. This could be indicated by the statistics of 2022, where over 250.76 million children's books were sold. Of all the genres, fictional books dominated the category sales, with over 184 million copies sold in 2022. Amidst the rising trend of digital books, one controversial claim people make is that the former isn't similar … [Read more...] about Fair and Impartial: Here’s How Digital Books Benefits Children
Amazon Allows Family Sharing for Purchases
One of the joys of reading has always been the ability to share books with your loved ones --how many times have you found a new favourite book that you can't wait to discuss with the people around you? While there have been band-aid solutions and workarounds for a while now, being able to share digital book purchases from Amazon hasn't been possible... until now! Amazon's new … [Read more...] about Amazon Allows Family Sharing for Purchases
American Library Association Announces Town Hall on eBooks
The American Library Association has been going full throttle on eBooks for the last few years. They managed to convince a number of major publishers that having their digital content in libraries is a good value proposition. The organization is hosting a virtual town hall meeting October 23 and it will explore emerging subjects in the eBook lending arena, including digital … [Read more...] about American Library Association Announces Town Hall on eBooks
Amazon Controls 79% of the eBook Market in the UK
A new survey was recently released by Ofcom, undertaken by Kantar Media and made possible by financial support from the UK Intellectual Property Office. It is very apparent that the vast majority of the UK's digital readers are doing business with Amazon and to a lesser extent all the other digital bookstores. 79% of the people polled from March to May 2013 have used Amazon’s … [Read more...] about Amazon Controls 79% of the eBook Market in the UK
Sourcebooks Brings Sesame Street to a More Personal Level
At last month's FutureBook Conference, Soucebooks' CEO and publisher Dominque Raccah sat down to speak with GoodeReader about the newly launched Put Me In The Story platform, an interactive ebook publishing model that lets parents and educators use the readers' own pictures and names in the bestselling children's storybooks. At the time, one of the more innovative features of … [Read more...] about Sourcebooks Brings Sesame Street to a More Personal Level
Ancient Vatican Library Texts To Be Digitized
It was just a matter of time before technology and hi-fi gadgets make it to what can perhaps be said the last frontiers of our civilization -- religion and places of worship. In a move that is sure to have far reaching impact for those of you that use tablet PCs and e-book reading devices to read your digital content. The Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, better known as the … [Read more...] about Ancient Vatican Library Texts To Be Digitized
LibreDigital Launches New e-Book Distribution Service
LibreDigital - the company that can be considered the leaders in the market for providing solutions for digital reading materials such as e-books, newspapers, and magazines has now announced the launch of their new self service distribution portal. This was formally announced during the BookExpo America conference, which the company claims would cater to small and medium sized … [Read more...] about LibreDigital Launches New e-Book Distribution Service
Free e-books to carry ads
Well, books have got transformed into e-books in the new digital age. And now e-books is on the verge of another major transformation that might shake up the very concept of books itself. For book may no longer be the same ever again as its likely to turn up like magazines if the latest plans drawn up by the marketing world is indeed turned into reality. For they are now … [Read more...] about Free e-books to carry ads