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The article focuses on the free ebook access provided by Brooklyn Public Library's (BPL's) Books Unbanned Team to teens and young adults defying rising book challenges across the U.S. in 2022. Topics discussed include number of instances of individual books being banned listed by the freedom of expression nonprofit PEN America's Index of School Book Bans from July 2021 to June 2022, the launch of Books Unbanned campaign by BPL on April 12, 2022, and the partnership between BPL and PEN America.

In this article the author, an elementary school librarian, comments on his experience purchasing and using a Kindle, an electronic book reader (ereader). He discusses his reluctance to purchase an ereader he felt would be technologically obsolete in a short while, comments on the ease of reading content on an ereader in comparison to a laptop computer, and voices his displeasure with the limited collection of ebooks available from his local library in comparison to Kindle's online store.

The article reviews the electronic book web site Bloomsbury Collections, located at www.bloomsburycollections.com, by Bloomsbury Publishing.

Reports that the King County Library System in Washington has made electronic audiobooks available in its eAudio collection. Way that books are played on MP3 players; Titles bought from the company Audible.com; How library patrons want to download electronic books themselves.

A news brief is presented which discusses the increased demand and availability of electronic books in United States libraries, despite frustrations involving the pricing and availability policies of the publishers. Statistics are provided which indicate that nine out of ten public libraries offer electronic books, that average circulation quadrupled from 2010 to 2011, and that the most active borrowers of electronic books are adults between the ages of 35 and 44.

The article evaluates the website McGraw-Hill eBook Library at http://www.mhebooklibrary.com by the publisher McGraw-Hill.

The article discusses digitization projects created to preserve books and documents. The authors note that interactive multimedia such as video, audio and Web 2.0 features are being added to digitized documents. They discuss electronic books, the creation of digital book readers and a feature of the WorldCat bibliographic database that allows users to locate books. They comment on how the economic recession will affect the purchase of digital tools and products by libraries. INSET: FIRMS AND THEIR DATABASE SERVICES.

This article evaluates several online resources which feature electronic-books. ACLS History E-book Project from the American Council of Learned Societies, which are organized in general categories and include American history from Colonial through the 20th Century, European history from ancient through the present, Eastern European history, Middle East history from ancient through the present, and a history of technology; BookSource: Nonfiction by EBSCO Information Services, which is produced for school and public libraries and provides descriptive abstracts, full text, and images from a variety of book publishers; Knovel from Knovel Corp., which is targeted at professional scientists and engineers, as well as those on the academic side of these disciplines; Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection from Oxford University Press, which is an aggregated resource that permits searching across the full database; Others.

Assesses the viability of electronic books (e-book) industry and library electronic-book experiments. Discomforts of users with the e-book concept; Reason for the decrease in the sales of e-books; Overview of electronic publishing as a potential business according to the Association of American University Presses. INSET: Text and Sound.

The article discusses the problems facing publishing company EBSCO after its acquisition of electronic book platform NetLibrary in March 2010. Topics include efforts EBSCO has made to streamline and improve NetLibrary, now called Ebooks on EBSCOhost, positive and negative reviews from public and university libraries that use the platform, and EBSCO's need to diversify its electronic book selection.

The article focuses on VERSO (Virtual Electronic Reference Source), a grassroots virtual reference service started at the Quinnipiac University's Arnold Bernhard Library in Hamden, Connecticut. The article talks about how the online reference works were not being accessed often and how VERSO made electronic references more available to users.

This article reports on the Ohio eBook Project launched by the State Library of Ohio in October 2005. The program will allow libraries across the state to access hundreds of eBooks and audiobooks for patrons. The program is funded by $28,000 in start-up money from the State Library, which also pays $1,000 in maintenance fees to OverDrive, a digital book vendor that supplies the software and materials for the collection.

The article evaluates several children's nonfiction book series published in the electronic book (ebook) format and available online including titles from Bearport Publishing, located at www.bearportpublishing.com, Capstone Interactive Library, located at www.mycapstonelibrary.com/index/html, and FollettShelf, located at www.aboutfollettebooks.com.

The article reviews the web site ABC-CLIO EBook Collection, located at www.abc-clio.com, from ABC-CLIO.

The author reviews GeoScienceWorld, an Internet resource for researching geology. The company's release of its GeoScienceWorld eBook Collections platform is discussed, which provides access to content including its electronic books, chronological subsets, field-trip guidebooks, and the conference proceedings of geology publishers. Details regarding the platform's usability and pricing are included.

The article discusses the sales of electronic books to libraries as of July 2013, focusing on initiatives to investigate pricing and availability as well as laws concerning electronic books. Topics include the proprietary electronic book platform Enki and electronic book ownership negotiations in Arizona, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

The article discusses the promise of the EPUB 3 digital-publishing standard for vision-impaired book enthusiasts. George Kerscher of the Digital Accessible Information Consortium says EPUB 3 could make it possible for publishers to create electronic books with accessibility features while greatly increasing the number of accessible books.

Discusses the International Children's Digital Library (ICDL). Online library that will contain thousands of children's books in many different languages; Technical problems that librarians are having in accessing the site; Companies and organizations that have donated books to the library; Software that is needed to view the electronic books on the web site; Problems that librarians and patrons are having with downloading the software; Speed of the service; Site performance that should improve.

The article reviews several technological tools and services including the HP Photosmart A630 and A530 portable photograph printers, the digital book collection Bookshare.org, and the USB Retro Wireless Microphone from Brando.

Reports on a new kind of electronic picture-book collection being marketed to school and public libraries by ChildrensE library.com, as of July 2002. First schools districts to use the e-books; Description of the book collection; Remarks from the corporate executive.