Bilbary eBook Library in Beta Test Last month, GoodeReader profiled a new ebook company that aims to offer… Mercy Pilkington22 March 2012One comment2 minute read
ALA President Raphael on the Current State of eBook Lending Publisher’s Weekly caught up with American Library Association president Molly Raphael at… Mercy Pilkington21 March 2012One comment2 minute read
ALA Asks Random House to Remove 300% Price Increase The American Library Association has been doing all it can to end… Mercy Pilkington6 March 2012One comment2 minute read
Libraries, Patrons to Pay the Price in Random House’s eBook Lending Just when it seems that libraries and publishers are finally coming to… Mercy Pilkington2 March 2012One comment2 minute read
Bilbary Seeks to Heal the Digital Rift Between Publishers and Libraries When ebook platform Bilbary launches sometime in March or April, it will… Mercy Pilkington16 February 2012One comment3 minute read
AudioBooks.com Launches with 11K+ Digital Editions There are so many innovative new startups emerging almost daily that consumers… Mercy Pilkington13 February 20122 comments3 minute read
Penguin Severs ties with OverDrive and Strikes a Blow to Ebook Lending GoodEReader reported last month that the American Library Association had asked for… Mercy Pilkington10 February 2012One comment2 minute read
Random House Titles Available for Library Lending…with a Price Increase The ALA Midwinter Conference was held in Dallas, TX, only a couple… Mercy Pilkington3 February 2012One comment2 minute read
Amazon Divulges Some Critical Numbers at Digital Book World Most of the big names in electronic reading—Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo—like… Mercy Pilkington28 January 2012One comment2 minute read
3M Library Systems Brings Library E-reader to Digital Book World Tom Mercer of 3M Library Systems Cloud-Based Library was on hand at… Mercy Pilkington25 January 2012One comment1 minute read
Tablet, e-Reader Ownership Almost Doubled in U.S. The recent 2011 holiday gift-giving season was a lucrative one for the… Mercy Pilkington23 January 2012One comment2 minute read
ALA Taking Action on eBook Lending The American Library Association held its Midwinter conference this week, but the… Mercy Pilkington23 January 2012One comment2 minute read
Cloud-Based Ebook Lending with 3M at ALA 3M’s Library System loves to show up at a packed conference and… Mercy Pilkington20 January 2012One comment2 minute read
Public Libraries Work to Meet Patron Demand for Ebooks According to some projections, ebooks are the reason more people are reading.… Mercy Pilkington18 January 20125 comments3 minute read
Surge in Amazon, Library Ebook Lending The first month for Amazon’s controversial KDP Select program has come to… Mercy Pilkington1 January 20123 comments2 minute read
War Between Publishers and Libraries Benefit Small Press Publishers This time of year lends itself quite well to predictions for the… Mercy Pilkington27 December 2011One comment2 minute read
Ebooks Still Viewed Differently Than Print A survey on the perceptions of patron ebook checkout by librarians, most… Mercy Pilkington23 December 2011One comment2 minute read
Google and Bloomsbury’s Public Library Online Public libraries and the ebook content they provide have made news earlier… Mercy Pilkington13 December 20112 comments2 minute read
Random House Is Last Big Six Publisher On Board With Ebook Lending This week, GoodEReader has been covering the ongoing tribulations of OverDrive, the… Mercy Pilkington24 November 2011No comments2 minute read
OverDrive Makes Entire Ebook Catalogs Available to Libraries OverDrive is the leading source of ebook titles for over 15,000 public… Mercy Pilkington12 October 2011No comments1 minute read
Lendingebook allows authors to sell their own books We wrote about a new ebook lending site a few weeks ago… Michael Kozlowski3 October 20112 comments1 minute read
LendingeBook Service to Launch This Monday We caught wind of a new website that helps facilitate the entire… Michael Kozlowski18 September 2011No comments4 minute read
OverDrive Now Providing Digital Content to School Libraries OverDrive has long been a source of material for public libraries to… Mercy Pilkington1 September 2011One comment2 minute read
