Derbyshire County Council Libraries Now Offering eAudiobook Service Derbyshire County Council’s libraries first started offering ebooks back in 2011 and… Sovan Mandal3 November 2013One comment2 minute read
Kuzya The Cat Now Assistant Librarian of Novorossiysk Library in Russia With public library budgets around the world being dangerously low, one Russian… Sovan Mandal20 September 20133 comments1 minute read
Oyster Offering All-You-Can-Read eBooks For $9.95/Month Oyster is out to win over the reading community with an offer… Sovan Mandal6 September 2013One comment2 minute read
Libraries Websites Key to Book Discovery OverDrive recently held its annual Digipalooza conference where they polled close to… Michael Kozlowski4 September 20133 comments2 minute read
eBook Television Commercial Increases Circulation for One Library Libraries tend to rely on word of mouth advertising to promote their… Michael Kozlowski19 February 2013One comment1 minute read
ProQuest and Bibliotheque National de France to Digitize Important and Rare Works via Early European Books Program Digitization of the world’s heritage increases day by day. Now, ProQuest and… 28 January 2013No comments1 minute read
ProQuest Will Acquire eBook Library ProQuest is on a roll. After acquiring ebrary in 2011, it has… 23 January 2013No comments1 minute read
University Libraries in Nova Scotia Test eBook Lending Plan A consortium of 10 academic libraries in Nova Scotia, Novanet, has negotiated… 23 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Libraries: More Important Than Ever for Discovery A workshop on libraries and ebooks was held with Skip Dye, VP,… 18 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Smashwords/Douglas County Deal Required a Lot of Work Previously we reported on Douglas County acquiring 10,000 self-published ebooks from Smashwords.… 9 January 2013No comments2 minute read
How to Make Library eBooks More Visible Many libraries are investing in a digital infrastructure to allow patrons to… Michael Kozlowski5 January 2013One comment2 minute read
Douglas County Libraries Acquire 10K eBooks from Smashwords Once again Smashwords is showing up the mainstream publishers. According to ALA… 4 January 2013One comment1 minute read
Libraries Starting to Emerge as Bookstores With bookstores gradually on the way out in the digital age, libraries… Sovan Mandal28 December 20122 comments2 minute read
Simon & Schuster Agrees to Sell One eBook to a Library One of the things that Simon & Schuster is noted for is… 17 December 20122 comments1 minute read
A Different Model for e-Lending in Sweden The Literary Platform has an absolutely fascinating article about how ebook lending… 13 December 20122 comments2 minute read
eBooks for Libraries Website Opens eBooks for Libraries is a site run by a librarian and sponsored… 11 December 2012One comment1 minute read
eBooks Don’t Have Bedbugs – Library Books Do The NY Times is reporting that libraries are trying to deal with… 6 December 2012No comments1 minute read
First Public Beta Version of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Is Launched Along with the rise of ebooks, we have been seeing a huge… 29 November 2012No comments2 minute read
Largest Children’s Library in Mexico Opens and Uses 3,000 eBooks 3,000 ebooks will be part of a new children’s library in Mexico… 28 November 2012No comments1 minute read
OverDrive CEO Addresses UK Parliament on eBook Lending The Libraries All Party Parliamentary Group held an ebook summit in London… Mercy Pilkington25 October 2012One comment1 minute read
New Provider, New Customers on the Digital Reference Front Credo Reference, a mainstay in offering reference content to libraries since 1999,… Mercy Pilkington16 October 2012One comment1 minute read
ebrary Provides Content Aligned with Common Core Standards One of the key flaws of the US educational system as identified… Mercy Pilkington18 August 2012One comment2 minute read
Abandoned Walmart in Texas Transforms into a Giant Library McAllen Texas found itself in the all too common situation of having… Michael Kozlowski8 July 20123 comments1 minute read
