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Information Today
May 2004
Paula Hane |
Project Gutenberg Progresses Progress has picked up on Project Guttenberg, an ambitious effort to develop a free public library of 10,000 public-domain e-books.   |
Information Today
July 16, 2012
Barbara Quint |
Project Gutenberg Launches Repository for Self-Published Works The generous souls at Project Gutenberg opened a new venue supplementing their traditional collection of public domain classics. |
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. |
Information Today
June 2, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Sources for Free Ebooks and Ereader Software The majority of the free ebooks available are older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books. Some sites, such as Amazon, offer newer free ebooks on limited time promotional offers. Barnes & Noble offers a limited number of Free Nook Books. The Sony Reader Store also offers some free ebooks. |
Information Today
September 5, 2006
Barbara Quint |
Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection. |
Searcher
September 2000
Amy M. Kautzman |
Virtual Academy: Full Text in the Humanities and Social Sciences A discussion about the commercialization of full-text databases and how well they server the library and research community. Includes a list of free full-text humanities databases on the web. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Information Today
June 26, 2008
Barbara Quint |
1923--1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain? Before 1923, all library partners in the program let Google's mass digitization program grind away, but only a handful of library partners will risk letting post-1923, probably in-copyright material from their collections into the program. |
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. |
Information Today
November 2006
Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
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
December 2005
Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
Information Today
December 20, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries? |
Information Today
January 19, 2010
Nancy Herther |
Kurzweil's Blio: A Singular Challenge to the Ebook Industry? Designed specifically for electronic versions of books, newspapers, and magazines, the platform-independent Blio clearly sets a new standard and model for the graphical display and navigation of electronic content. |
Search Engine Watch
December 14, 2004
Gary Price |
Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database. |
Information Today
February 19, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
What's in a (Domain) Name? A New "Gutenberg" Site Launches as an Ebook Resource A new ebook resource has launched with a familiar sounding name -- Gutenberg.com. It bills itself as "a central resource for ebook lovers, ebook newbies, and the ebook industry." |
D-Lib
March 2006
Schibel & Rydberg-Cox |
Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2010
David Stern |
Ebooks: From Institutional to Consortial Considerations It is not too early for academic libraries to begin considering the implementation issues for consortial purchases and/or leases of ebooks. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
May 4, 2005
Gary Price |
Going Under Cover with Book Search Tools Google, Amazon and others offer really useful 'search inside the book' tools, but they're not always the easiest features to use. Here's a closer look at getting the most from online book search services. |
Searcher
December 2000 |
The Future of the Past: History Sources on the Internet Historians and historical-fiction writers bring history to life through the skillful selection of details from daily life. For researchers of history, the number of Internet resources is increasing rapidly... |
D-Lib
June 2000 |
In Brief Report on the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries 2000 Conference... First ACM/IEEE CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Announced... Gottingen Gutenberg Bible Goes Digital... Cooperation between the British Library and UK Universities... A National Union Catalogue for the UK?... |
D-Lib
May 2005
Malama, Landoni & Wilson |
What Readers Want: A Study of E-Fiction Usability Many of the principles for designing the visual components of electronic textbooks can also be applied in the fiction genre. |
Information Today
April 12, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Tsunami -- From Antitrust to Burgeoning Sales The ebook tsunami is still in play; new issues, problems, and possibilities occur almost daily. We can do little more than watch, wonder, and improvise as the forces of innovation and commercialism work through this time of change in publishing. |
PC Magazine
August 23, 2007
Edward Mendelson |
PDF Converter Professional 4 PDF Converter Professional 4 lacks the polish of Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard, but it has superior OCR and export features. |
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. |
Information Today
January 17, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Trends 2013 -- The New World of Ebook Publishing Changes are coming much faster in the publishing world today -- prices for titles are dropping and we are seeing the development of new models and channels for publishing, distribution, and sales. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Does PDF & Other Changes Google now includes listings of Adobe PDF files from across the web, a first for any major search engine and a feature long overdue for them to offer. By including PDF content in its listings, Google makes its service even more useful for those trying to get into the nooks and crannies of the web... |
CRM
December 2007
Jessica Tsai |
Power to the People Now that consumers can create content of their own, marketers no longer control the message. If you can't lead the conversation, you'd better learn how to be part of it. |
PC Magazine
August 17, 2007
Edward Mendelson |
Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard PDF standard creator Adobe still rules the flourishing PDF roost, thanks to Acrobat 8 Standard. |
Information Today
February 2006
K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Library Schools and the Copyright Knowledge Gap From digitization projects to interlibrary loan and from electronic reserves to electronic books, copyright law is having an impact on librarianship. |
Information Today
December 16, 2010
Nancy Herther |
Google's eBookstore Takes Ebooks to the Next Level On Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, after months of anticipation, Google officially launched Google eBookstore (previously called Google Editions), marking an important milestone for the ebook industry. |
Wired
February 2003 |
View Will biometric security scans really make us safer?... Memory Overload... Hot Seat... Dumb Mobs... Any Text. Anytime. Anywhere. (Any Volunteers?) |
Searcher
November 2011
Barbara Quint |
O! Pioneers! Michael Hart, the founder, leader, defender, advocate, and voice of Project Gutenberg, died this summer. Several friends and colleagues of mine sent me links to obituaries and tributes to the man. |
Financial Advisor
July 2009
Joel P. Bruckenstein |
Formatting Fallacies For advisory businesses, choosing between TIFFs or PDFs for business records means understanding their pros and cons. |
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
December 2, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
News and Trends We Could Do Without Printed versions of social networking sites content, the perils of shopping online, and the perverse benefits of negative online publicity are among the highlighted trends. |
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." |
PC Magazine
November 25, 2003 |
Turn Reader Files into Writers Sometimes you don't want a huge program for a simple task. Here's a simple plug-in program that converts PDFs to Word documents. |
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. |
