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Ebook Rant
My husband and I chose the Nook color as our ebook reader last year. Let me start by saying that we love them! I do however have two policy issues to complain about (and I’m pretty sure that these are...
View ArticleEbook Trends: Info Pros Perspectives
Andy Woodworth was up first in the Ebook Trends talk. Andy’s talk was super fast and super awesome. I do hope that he shares his talk with us all so you can read that instead of my shortened summary....
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Import Free Ebook Records to your Catalog
A couple years ago I brought a private project that shared Project Gutenberg records to your attention. Well, yesterday I thought I would go out and see if they had any more records to share so I could...
View ArticleGet more open access books
Back in March I attended Computers in Libraries and at one of the social events I learned about a new site to try and get more books released as open access – that project is called Unglue.it:...
View ArticleAds in Ebooks
This article on Engadget talks about Microsoft’s patent to put ads in Ebooks: We have ad-supported e-reading today, but the ads always sit on the periphery at most. That makes us more than slightly...
View ArticleDo Ebooks Need Cover Images?
There was an interesting article on NPR about the art of cover images and the new world of eBooks. Chip Kidd, an associate art director at publisher Alfred A. Knopf, gave a talk about the art of cover...
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Get yourself a DRM free bundle of ebooks
StoryBundle is a neat new site that offers you bundles of (usually 5) indie DRM-Free ebooks for whatever price you want to pay. If you pay $7 or more for the bundle they’ll throw in 2 bonus books. This...
View ArticleCA Law to Produce Open Source Textbooks
This from Ars Technica: Two bills were signed in to law in California recently. One to create the textbooks and the other to establish a California Digital Open Source Library to host them. According...
View ArticleGifting Kindle Books
I’ve been a Nook user until I switched to my Nexus 7. Now I can read Nook or Kindle books. I’ve updated my Amazon wishlist for Christmas, but was wondering how my friends and/or family would be able to...
View ArticleProject Gutenberg to Dropbox
In the past I’ve given you tips on how to get Project Gutenberg MARC records in to your ILS. Now I can tell you how to download ebooks directly to your Dropbox account so that you can access them on...
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