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Jul/Aug 2002
Donald T. Hawkins |
Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated It is now apparent that the e-book shot missed its mark, and the e-book revolution has fizzled. Indeed, it never really got off the ground. But despite all the gloom and doom surrounding them, e-books are not dead. Indeed, some e-book market segments appear to be stirring to life.   |
Information Today
March 2001
Judy Luther & Ana Arias Terry |
Professional Publishers Confront Change Taking risks was the mandate at the annual conference of the Association of American Publishers' Professional Scholarly Publishing division, from Napster to e-books to new business models... |
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September 2002
Paula J. Hane |
Open eBook Forum Releases Industry Report In late July, the Open eBook Forum released a report that provides industry statistics, which the organization says show solid growth in electronic publishing and a positive significant shift in the perception of electronic book publishing. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
Open eBook Forum Launches Standards Initiatives The Open eBook Forum (OeBF), the international trade organization for e-publishing, has announced a framework and two initiatives to further accelerate the growth of the e-publishing marketplace... |
Information Today
October 2000 |
Microsoft Pushes Products and Alliances in E-Book Market Microsoft Corp. has announced that it has made the Windows version of Microsoft Reader for desktop PCs and laptop computers available as a free download. In addition, major publishers are making best-selling titles available in Microsoft Reader format... |
D-Lib
July 2001
Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users... |
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December 2000 |
Wiley Partners with netLibrary, Lightning Source John Wiley & Sons, Inc., has announced that it has signed agreements with netLibrary and Lightning Source to provide the online distribution of about 750 new frontlist titles per year... |
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July 2, 2007
Karie Kirkpatrick |
Injecting Life Into the Ebook: Adobe Digital Editions 1.0 Released Adobe announced the release of its new ebook software, Adobe Digital Editions. |
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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. |
Information Today
December 2000 |
ebrary Snags Key Investors for Pay-Per-Use Service ebrary, a company founded in February 1999 to establish an online research library, has announced an unprecedented joint investment by three leading publishing and information services companies: Random House, Inc., Pearson, and The McGraw-Hill Companies... |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2012
Tomasz Neugebauer |
Report on the 16th International Conference on Electronic Publishing: Social Shaping of Digital Publishing The Conference on Electronic Publishing has provided a valuable venue for the exchange of ideas between librarians, computer scientists, publishers and others since it was first organized in 1997. |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
IT Interview Questia Provides Digital Library, Research Tools... |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2007
John K. Waters |
Digital Publishing :: Out of Print Traditional textbook publishers are having to adjust to a changing market, as K-12 educators show a growing interest in digital content. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
NIST Demonstrates New Reading Device for the Visually Impaired The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the release of a new Braille reader that may soon bring the benefits of electronic books to the visually impaired... |
Information Today
October 2000 |
OverDrive Provides E-Book Authoring Tools and Publisher Portals OverDrive, Inc. has announced the release of its ReaderWorks Standard software, which is available as a free download at OverDrive's Web portal... |
Macworld
July 2000
Frith Breitzer |
Judging E-books by Their Covers Format Still Has Hurdles to Overcome |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
Information Today
June 2001 |
IT Report from the Field: Seybold Seminars Boston 2001 When Seybold Seminars' publishing-technology conference came to Boston last year, the winds were cold but the economic temperature was warm and toasty. At Seybold Seminars Boston 2001, things were reversed. The weather was delightful but the economic forecasts were not... |
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June 11, 2012
Dan Tonkery |
BEA 2012: Libraries Still Draw the Short Stick Libraries do not have much to celebrate from Book Expo other than their copyright win at the Georgia State University and even that win may be short lived as the publishers have requested an injunction to stop certain types of usage of reserve material. |
D-Lib
September 2001 |
Clips and Pointers Building and Sustaining Digital Collections... Trust in Cyberspace... Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources... Attributes of a Trusted Digital Repository... Feasibility Study for a National Union Catalogue for the UK... etc. |
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September 2001
Ana Arias Terry |
SSP Annual Meeting 2001 E-books took a back seat to discussions about collaboration and experimentation... |
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June 3, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Public Library Complete (PLC) from ebrary Offers Ebooks and More This includes includes more than 20,000 ebooks from leading publishers with more ebooks coming into the package every day-at no additional cost to subscribing libraries. |
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October 2001
Paula J. Hane |
ebrary Announces Partnership with McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing ebrary has announced that McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing, a unit of the McGraw-Hill Companies' McGraw-Hill Education Division, is adopting ebrary's ebrarian solution for Primis Online, its online service that allows faculty members to create customized e-books... |
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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. |
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. |
Searcher
May 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Feature: The Ebook Wars - Amazon Versus the Rest The move to electronic publication of books is creating some of the same issues and problems for publishers and distributors that the music industry -- not to mention, the information industry -- has been dealing with for years now: disintermediation. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2002
Judy Shasek & Wendy Anderson Schulz |
Cyber-Bookshelf: E-Wally and the Quest A new book seeks to teach children about the rise of the Internet, bridging the gap between a generation that grew up on the printed word with one that is growing up with computers... |
Information Today
March 8, 2010 |
Two New Ebook Surveys Highlight Interesting Trends HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks |
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
November 8, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Random House and Penguin Merge to Meet the Digital Imperative "The merger will create the largest consumer book publisher in the world," noted The New York Times, "with a global market share of more than 25 percent and a book list that includes contemporary best-sellers. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
Kera Bolonik |
The e-book wars Does a glittering $100,000 prize signal the coming of age of digital books, or a takeover bid by Microsoft and New York publishers? |
Information Today
March 8, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon's Squeeze on Booksellers Leads to Boycotts and Protests In January, Barnes & Noble made the decision to no longer carry Amazon-published titles in their brick-and-mortar stores "based on Amazon's continued push for exclusivity with publishers, agents and the authors they represent." |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Grotta & Grotta |
Self-Publishing 101 Electronic books offer a direct channel to readers |
Information Today
August 2000 |
Publishers Participate in Launch Program for Microsoft Reader E-Books Microsoft Corp. has announced that more than 30 book publishers have participated in a production launch program for Microsoft Reader with ClearType display technology, ensuring the availability of over 800 of their books for Microsoft Reader when it launches later this summer.... |
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September 18, 2008
Corilee Christou |
Perseus Book Group Introduces Constellation Service for Independent Publishers Constellation is a one-stop service offering digital conversion technologies and new distribution channels to small, independent publishers. |
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
December 2003
Donald T. Hawkins |
The ASIDIC Fall 2003 Meeting A report from the Association of Information and Dissemination Centers's Sept. 21-23 event in Montreal. |
Information Today
July 1, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries. |
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September 24, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Three Publishers Settle in Apple Pricing Collusion Case "In a move that could reshape the publishing industry," The Wall Street Journal declares, "a federal judge has approved a settlement with three of the nation's largest book publishers over alleged collusion in the pricing of e-books." |
Information Today
September 2000 |
Lightning Source, Holtzbrinck Create Global Digital Content Alliance Lightning Source, Inc. to become Holtzbrinck's primary provider of a comprehensive suite of digital fulfillment services, including printing and secure e-book delivery. |
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May 23, 2011
Nancy Herther |
McGraw-Hill eBook Library Debuts As Its Etextbook Platform Company officials plan appearances at library-related conferences throughout the coming year to demo the new ebook service, geared to the needs of professional and academic markets. |
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April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Information Today
November 2, 2009
Nancy Herther |
Internet Archive Dishes up BookServer as Digital Books Market Heats Up BookServer is intended to be easy-to-use, while respecting authors' and publishers' interests |
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. |
InternetNews
August 28, 2009 |
Google's EPUB Embrace Challenges Kindle As Google's backing of open format for digital books lends merit to EPUB, is Amazon camped on boundary between front-runner and future failure? |
InternetNews
October 1, 2009 |
Simon & Schuster Unveils Video Book Service The book publishing giant today launches iPhone app and browser-based video book service. |
Information Today
August 28, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
NewsStand Introduces LibreDigital Warehouse Service for Book Publishers NewsStand, Inc. has established a new division of the company, LibreDigital, and launched a new service that allows book publishers to digitally capture and deliver selected book content online. |
Information Today
December 2002
Jim Ashling |
Report from the Field: The World's Largest Book Fair A 1-day tour of the Frankfurt Book Fair provided a quick overview. |
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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. |
Information Today
May 2001
Helen Jezzard |
Internet Librarian International 2001 This 3-day event drew some of the biggest names in
the information industry... |
