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Transition from Print to Electronic: Ebooks on the Same Path as EJournals
Yesterday I posted about ebooks and what some of the librarians attending the Springer LibraryZone Virtual ebook webinar discussed. Today I saw a post on liblicense from Scott Plutchak comparing the transition and the situation to what librarians experienced when journals transitioned from print to electronic. Interesting. I have to admit that just never occurred to me. But Scott brought up some excellent points saying just like now with ebooks, librarians were very frustrated and up in arms when journals started becoming much more electronic. Just think, the official version of BMJ isn’t the print any m...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - September 2, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Uncategorized

New site reviews Smashwords books
Neil Crab has started a Smashwords book review site called, appropriately, Smashwords Books Reviewed. Neil is a Smashwords author himself, with a book of short stories, Believable Lies, and is about ready to publish a novel and has a second novel on the way. His first review is The Storm Killer, by Mike Jastrzebski. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 2, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba Smashwords book review ebook Neil Crab

Here’s one reason why Ebooks are catching on
How Bookofjoe finds this stuff I don’t know. But, it shows you why I no longer read the 3 pound bricks that are being published. Give me an ereader over this any day! Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 2, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba ereader BookofJoe ebook

ebrary’s Academic Complete E-Book Database tops 50K titles
From the press release: ebrary®, a leading provider of digital content products and technologies, today announced that its flagship subscription e-book database, Academic Complete™, now exceeds 50,000 titles from the world’s leading publishers. Academic Complete continues to be the largest multidisciplinary e-book database licensed to libraries throughout the world, under a simultaneous, multi-user access model with continual growth. Furthermore, ebrary’s Academic Complete, Government Complete™, Public Library Complete™, and College Complete™ are the only e-book products that enables libraries to upload and in...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 2, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba ebook ebrary Academic Complete

OverDrive’s most downloaded Ebooks for August
More info, and other categories, here. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 2, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Overdrive Paul Biba ebook

Digitale bibliotheekvernieuwing: een krimpend perspectief
Frank Huysmans attendeerde mij zojuist op het rapport Een krimpend perspectief: Gemeentelijke bezuinigingen op openbaar bibliotheekwerk in de periode 2010-2013. Nadat ik dat document ook op Slideshare had gezet las ik het 'diagonaal' en scande ik het op bevindingen en aanbevelingen met betrekking tot digitale ontwikkelingen. In het persbericht (PDF) staat "Bezuinigingen bedreiging voor innovatiekracht openbare bibliotheken", dus ik was wel benieuwd in hoeverre bedreigde bibliotheken nadenken over bezuinigen door gebruik te maken van open source software en vrij beschikbare tools op het web, of door het inzetten...
Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek - September 2, 2010 Tags: bibliotheekinnovatie digitale bibliotheek bibliotheekvernieuwing bezuinigingen ontmoetingsfunctie rapporten bezuinigingen bibliotheken Bibnet bezuinigingsmaatregelen bibliotheek

Playing Hard to Get: Purchasing and Reading E-Books
Last week I sat in on the Springer LibraryZone Virtual ebook webinar and it was a very interesting discussion. Many libraries (especially academic) are investigating and collecting e-books in lieu of some printed text. How much they are collecting and the nature by which they to the selection process seems to vary according each library, their type, size, consortia involvement, usage data, etc. The reasons why and how much they bought all varied but the frustrations, questions, and concerns the faced were very similar and seemed on the minds of every librarian regardless of their library, type, size, consortia inv...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - September 1, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Electronic Access Journals and Books

How-to for determining if iBooks are DRMed misses copyright point
Katie Gatto at our sister blog Appletell has made a post explaining how to determine which e-books in your iTunes listing are DRM-protected and which are DRM-free. It is a useful little tutorial for those who are not sure (or, for that matter, bother to purchase iBooks titles in the first place). However, annoyingly, Gatto repeatedly conflates DRM with copyright. She begins the article with “If you want to know which of your ebooks are DRM free and which have been protected by copyright,” then mentions that this process “will let you know if a book has DRM protections or if you’re free to share it with others,” ...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Apple Chris Meadows DRM copyright e-book ebook iBooks iBookstore AppleTell ITunes

Handheld E-Book Readers and Scholarship: Report and Reader Survey
Received the following email. The report is quite interesting, but is way too long to summarize here: ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) recently concluded its survey to test the use of digital scholarly monographs for research purposes on various handheld reading devices, such as Amazons Kindle, the Sony Reader, and Apples iPhone. HEB has just published the detailed results of this survey and an overview of the process of converting titles for handhelds, including costs, in a new whitepaper available at: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/heb-whitepaper-3.html Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba ebook ACLS hebook

Author Meredith Greene talks about Ebooks
From her article in the Sacramento Book Review: As I read through the month, I snuck looks at the various ebook blogs and industry news pages that I frequent, adding comments where incited to and re-tweeting when especially impressed. A particular piece by J. A. Konrath caught my eye on Monday, titled The Changing Face of Publishing; in it, Konrath voices fears that the paper book industry may be spiraling downward. “I’m sensing a shift.” he writes, “And this shift will likely prove fatal for many of the parties involved. If, as I suspect, publishers are going to print fewer books, that will result in a death spira...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba ebook Meredith Greene

Aptara offering free webinar on Ebooks, apps and print
From the Aptara site: You’ve committed to an ebook strategy for growth. Now what? One of the most perplexing problems facing publishers is how to master the technology, workflow and format variables required to optimize ebook production, while still producing print and piloting Apps in parallel. The solution lies in modifying your publishing processes to enable cost-effective, multi-channel output. In this webinar, ebook and industry experts from Gilbane Group and Aptara describe an approachable single content strategy for achieving production flexibility and monetizing content assets in an explosive, mobile-centric mark...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba ebook Aptara

New iPod Touch could replace several gadgets at once
Sometimes we get accused of becoming an Apple blog, we post so much Apple-centric stuff, but there’s a reason for that. Apple might be obnoxious in its app approval behavior, closed in its development platform, and prudish in its gatekeeping, but there’s no denying that they make some damned fine e-book reading devices. My iPod Touch was my sole e-reader for most of the two years I had it, and I still miss it badly. Matt Buchanan makes a similar point on Gizmodo, where he says that if the rumors are true about the new iPod Touch that will (presumably) be revealed tomorrow and it ends up with the same retina display, Fa...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Apple Chris Meadows e-book ebook iPhone iPod Touch events FaceTime

Project Gutenberg: Timeline Events
From the Project Gutenberg News comes this article by Michael Hart: The latest Project Gutenberg Grand Total figures have just passed 37,500 titles this past month and will have 40,000 ebooks during our 40th year celebration, 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn’t sound like much, but we are on track right now to do 5,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 100,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org. About 3 million ebooks per month or 36 million per year. In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M “IBM Memory Sticks” available for about $60 and also 16M and 32...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba Project Gutenberg ebook

Online Conference: “Ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point,” Sepetember 29, 2010
From the August Issue (Published 8/31/2009) of the Book Industry Study Group Bulletin (BISG): BISG is a supporting organization for several industry conferences each year, including ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point presented by Library Journal & School Library Journal. Sponsored By: OverDrive (Platinum) Gold sponsors: Baker & Taylor; Capstone Digital; Gale Cengage; and Springer Keynote Speakers Ray Kurzweil, National best?selling author Kevin Kelly, Founder, Wired magazine R. David Lankes, Director of the Information Institute, Syracuse U. URL: www.ebook?summit.com ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point is an o...
Source: ResourceShelf - September 1, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Books E-books Libraries and Librarianship

After you’ve printed a book, what do you do with it? Gutenberg’s problem
Boston.com’s Tom Sococca has an absolutely fascinating interview with Andrew Pettegree, author of The Book in the Renaissance. The parallels between printers’ problems at the time and the publishing industry today are legion. Inventing the printing press was not the same thing as inventing the publishing business. Technologically, craftsmen were ready to follow Gutenberg’s example, opening presses across Europe. But they could only guess at what to print, and the public saw no particular need to buy books. The books they knew, manuscript texts, were valuable items and were copied to order. The habit of spend...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba publishing Andrew Pettegree books Gutenberg

The Daily Square – Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere Edition
Today’s links of interest: Borders Reduces E-reader to $99And there you have it. An ereader below $100. Oh, wow, the world is still turning. Random House’s Strong Half-Year Results Driven By ‘Dragon Tattoo’ SalesStieg Larsson, who will not likely be producing more books, drives huge dollars to Random House. His ebook sales are phenomenal. Which leads to the question: does the lack of an iBookstore agreement hurt RH in any way? A Moment of JenFrom Jennifer Weiner: Instead of asking which books and which authors deserve the Times’ coverage, maybe we should think about what kind of book review section reade...
Source: Booksquare - September 1, 2010 Author: Kassia Krozser Tags: The Daily Square

Publishing: Statistics: Slides from Recent Presentation by CEO of Wolters Kluwer, Nancy McKinstry, at 2010 Beijing International Publishing Forum
On Sunday, Nancy McKinstry shared her thoughts about publishing, China, her company and a number of other topics during the 2010 Beijing International Publishing Forum. You can find a the news release here. Included in the 34 slide presentation are a number of statistics and other items that might be of interest. Access the Presentation Slides (PDF) Examples Include: Facts About Wolters Kluwer + Approximately 19,300 employees in more than 40 countries across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America + 3.4 EUR billion revenue Total Number of Professionals (Global, With Sources) + 8.4 Million Physicians + 13 M...
Source: ResourceShelf - August 31, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Information Industry Papers, Presentations, Reports Statistics

A Librarian Shares Her Ideas: “E-books in a Correctional Setting: A Niche Market”
by Judith Jordet, MLS From the Article: If each inmate could have a library of over 1,000 titles in one small e-book reader, it would cut down on hiding contraband among the books (such as sandpaper to erase their uniform logo), remove the unsanitary habit of reading books in the rest-room, cut down on repairing books (averaging 20% or over 1,200 books destroyed each year), free up space by limiting the 3 X 8 foot long bookshelves that only hold 640 books for 100 inmates in each unit, encourage struggling readers to listen to a book while reading the text on the screen, and, finally, allow anyone to increase ...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - August 31, 2010 Author: Gary Price Founder and Senior Editor of Resource Shelf Tags: Paul Biba kindle library correctional facility ebook Gary Price inmate librarian Resource Shelf

OPDS primer on Feedbooks
According to Feedbooks: This is an introduction to the Open Publishing Distribution System Catalog 1.0 specification. This document is informative rather than normative. When this document disagrees, if ever, with the OPDS Catalog specification, please refer to the spec. Via a tweet from @liza Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - August 31, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba ebook Feedbooks OPDS

Kaplan free Ebook offer on the iBookstore extended for a week
We’ve previously mentioned the Kaplan free ebook offer, now that offer has been extended until September 6, according to a press release. The titles for the extended promotion are: 1. Kaplan ACT Strategies for Super Busy Students 2. Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Dictionary 3. Sharp Vocab 4. Sharp Writing 5. Kaplan Portable GMAT 6. Kaplan Portable GRE Exam 7. Kaplan PMBR: Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE) 8. Kaplan PMBR Finals: Constitutional Law 9. Kaplan MCAT Organic Chemistry Review 10. Kaplan MCAT Biology Review 11. Kaplan NCLEX-RN 2010 -2011 Edition ...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - August 31, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba textbooks iBooks iBookstore Kaplan Kaplan Publishing

OPDS Catalog 1.0 Specification
The OPDS Catalog 1.0 specification has been released. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content. OPDS Catalogs are an open standard designed to enable the discovery of digital content from any location, on any device, and for any application. . . . Based on the widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers...
Source: DigitalKoans - August 31, 2010 Author: admin

Mysteries
Liz Petty brought this book to my attention: Murder Past Due (Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series), by Miranda James. It is available in paperback and ebook - from Barnes and Noble and in print from Amazon.com.
Source: Lex Scripta - August 31, 2010 Author: Jennifer Stephens

Libraries: Open books | Editorial
People who know how borrowing books helped to transform their own lives now need to hold their councils to accountNaturally, those who most loved libraries as children are now their most articulate supporters. Some were dismayed by Margaret Hodge's report on public libraries earlier this year, which praised the network as "a triumph of infrastructure and branding". In the coalition era, they may be equally crestfallen at the Future Libraries Programme's promise of "customer service improvement opportunities" in Greater Manchester.Do not be deceived by the familiar jargon. The government's current vision is very different f...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Books - August 30, 2010 Tags: Libraries Books Society Politics UK news The Guardian Editorials Comment is free

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