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Information Today
September 21, 2009 |
Google Signs Agreements With On Demand Books Google has agreed to provide On Demand Books, LLC, the maker of the Espresso Book Machine, with immediate access to more than 2 million public domain titles in the Google digital files.   |
Information Today
October 6, 2008
Jill E. Grogg |
Print on Demand Goes Local Localized print on demand (POD) is ushering in the next era of book publishing and distribution. It could create a dramatically new paradigm for libraries. |
Salon.com
December 3, 2002
Christopher Dreher |
Why do books cost so much? Thirty bucks for a new hardcover! How book prices got so out of hand, who's responsible and what it will take to make reading more affordable in the future. |
Searcher
January 2008
Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. |
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. |
Searcher
December 2011
Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage. |
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
August 2007
Donald T. Hawkins |
O'Reilly Media Launches TOC Conference O'Reilly Media - publishers of computer technology and programming books with pictures of animals on the covers, the Hacks and Missing Manual series of books, MAKE and CRAFT magazines, and similar publications - launched a Tools of Change for Publishing conference in June. |
Information Today
October 31, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Open Content Alliance Expands Rapidly; Reveals Operational Details Just a few weeks after its launch, the Open Content Alliance has already added dozens of new members to its Open Library project. |
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
July 7, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Come to the World eBook Fair! This year, the theme of the fair is Own Your Own Library and it promises 1 million-plus books free for the taking. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
Dan Costa |
Print Is Dead. Long Live Print. How publishing-on-demand will transform the publishing industry. |
Searcher
January 2006
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Home Guard Information professionals need to establish turf for the profession, to make it clear to patrons or potential patrons everywhere exactly what we do and why they cannot do without our services except at great personal risk. |
Information Today
March 15, 2010 |
Infobase Ebooks Now Available Through Gale Virtual Reference Library This allows libraries to provide access to popular ebooks from Facts On File and Ferguson Publishing along with more than 4,500 existing electronic reference titles, expanding the library's offerings while avoiding duplicated resources. |
D-Lib
February 2000
Peter Hirtle |
Editorial: On eBooks, Open Archives, and Libraries |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2005
Gary Price |
A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible online. |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Books Are Dead. Long Live Books! New technology could keep paper books alive, despite digital disruption. |
Information Today
October 3, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Open Content Alliance Rises to the Challenge of Google Print Google Print's ambitious effort to digitize the world's book literature has inspired others to initiate their own effort. |
Information Today
April 30, 2012
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Look for Circulating Law Ebooks at a Library Near You LexisNexis and OverDrive announced that they have agreed to create customized ebook lending and management services, offering "the largest collection of authoritative legal ebook content on all major mobile devices and desktop platforms." |
AskMen.com
James Raiswell |
2008 Espresso Machines A regular espresso habit can be costly. Why not consider a home machine then? We did a bit of research and here are six fantastic 2008 espresso machines you can invest in. |
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. |
U.S. CPSC
March 7, 2006 |
Espresso Machines Recalled for Fire Hazard The electrical connectors in the C1000 Capresso Automatic Coffee Center espresso machine can erode, posing a fire hazard. |
Information Today
November 19, 2012 |
New Findings Reaffirm Library Borrowers Are Also Buyers An extensive online poll of library ebook readers finds that these patrons purchase an average of 3.2 books (both print and ebooks) each month, and a majority would consider purchasing books discovered on a library website. |
U.S. CPSC
March 30, 2006 |
Espresso Machines Recalled for Fire Hazard Jura Impressa Automatic Coffee Center Espresso Machines are being recalled because the electrical connectors in the machine can erode, posing a fire hazard. |
Searcher
May 2012
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Percentages The arrival of ebooks has left pbooks the last man standing when it comes to library collections. Now books are going the way of full-text journals and reference works. A library's primary collection is no longer primarily print. |
Searcher
October 2010
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Smart Generosity My ebooks should have an afterlife. After all, I've paid about the same price as a good paperback, but not only can't I give it to a library -- or anyone else in most cases -- I'm still looking for instructions on how to delete a book entry from my Kindle or iBook "libraries." |
Information Today
December 2006
Greg R. Notess |
Microsoft Launches Live Search Books Microsoft has launched Live Search Books. All of the books available on Live Search Books are out-of-copyright titles, thus avoiding the copyright controversy at Google Books. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2005
Tim Gray |
Yahoo Leads Literary Charge The Internet giant heads a consortium set on digitizing hundreds of thousands of books and technical papers and making them available on the Web for almost universal access. The consortium will use an opt-in policy for publishers that has plagued Google's similar effort. |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2015
Andy Extance |
Espresso maker brews up tasty extraction Researchers in Australia have used an unmodified household espresso maker to get nearly pure shikimic acid -- a raw material for Roche's antiviral drug Tamiflu -- from the spice star anise. |
CRM
September 13, 2013
Harden & Sears |
How Could Your Business Benefit from the Vending Machine Model? Recurring revenue technology advances make it possible. |
Seasoned Cooking
April 2005
Julie Carter |
Something for Everyone Espresso, caffe latte, cappuccino; there would seem to be as many types of Italian coffee as there are pastas, and each has a specific time and mood. Here are some tips on how to buy and brew fresh beans. |
