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The reading ecosystem is evolving fast, even as you read this. Facing the rapid transition to ebooks together, rather than in isolated camps, librarians, publishers, authors, and readers can ensure [...]

DESPITE THE FUNDING CHALLENGES nearly all school libraries face, many media specialists are optimistic about the role of technology in the school library, according to SLJ's 2011 Technology Survey. Maribel [...]

The publishing industry can see benefits in the growing e-books market. Books can be published in electronic format, which will not necessarily mean that prices of publications can go down because books are used consumed for a longer period of time as compared to iTunes. Other details about the publishing industryEs digital technology outlook are discussed.

One of the biggest 'first-world problems' to arise during 2020's necessary isolation in response to Covid-19 has to do with e-books. I'm specifically talking about e-galleys, the early versions of [...]

If any one group has embraced the Internet, I think it's safe to say kids are right up there at the top of the 'surfing the Web' list of enthusiasts. [...]

Execs at the Little Free Library, a nonprofit literacy organization, and the family of Todd Bol, the late founder of LFL, are at odds, with each side claiming that it [...]

Is There Still Room for Traditional Publishing in the Digital Age? The digital market may be the most sustainable future for publishing but is there still room in our hearts [...]

E-readers present a valuable opportunity for publishers to generate income from their content. But there are issues that need to be overcome before a big enough readership takes to them […]

USA Today is the latest newspaper to strike up a content deal with Amazon's Kindle. Owners of the digital reader can access USA Today for $11.99 a month. 'USA Today [...]

Memorial Junior Middle School in Hanover, NJ, has acquired 'online textbooks' for its seventh and eighth grade language arts classes. The 'books' can be accessed online at www.bkenglish.com. They were [...]

In his last column, Brian Kenney did a good and fair job of outlining the Douglas County Libraries e-book model, in which we host and manage our own digital con-tent. [...]

Infobase publishing will distribute more than 250 ebooks through Gale Virtual Reference Library, Gale's ebook platform. The ebooks, aimed at middle school-level readers and above, have been chosen from Infobase's [...]

Giving away of free electronic books online to boost sales of books, was discussed as an effective marketing strategy at the Google Unbound conference of top book publishers and authors, held at the New York Public Library on 18 January 2007.

One size does not fit all. For anyone who has ever tried to make something fit (especially when it won't), it's best to realize that the word 'all' does not [...]

Following a 'successful pilot program' in 20 library systems, S&S will now open its catalogue of e-books to all libraries [...]

E-books by Sainsbury's is readying an 'industry first' e-book promotion on PG Tips tea packets. The supermarket has significantly upped its promotion for the site since launching a 99p e-book [...]

Booksellers from across Europe have urged the EC representatives to act over the use of closed e-book systems by major players such as Apple and Amazon. The discussion at the [...]

Indian vendors excel in SSTM (scholarly, science, technical, and medical) content. That was true more than two decades ago and remains true today. At the same time, some vendors have [...]

The number of French people who have read an e-book has more than doubled in the past six months, yet almost four in five still say they will never read [...]

Having just reviewed Follett's suite of ebook-related products last month, it's been interesting to compare how Mackin is serving up digital content they offer the pre-K-12 market, including the more [...]

In the past, you could sit on a train, and make an assessment of the character of your fellow passengers--solely by looking at the book covers around you. The same [...]

As digital publishing continues to evolve, educators can be assured that both ebooks and apps will have a big place in readers' libraries, according to attendees of the first Tools [...]

It is nearly a year since we were at the SLA 2009 Weekend Course demonstrating our plans for making electronic versions of our books available on the iPod Touch and [...]

When Oliver Chin--an author who previously worked for several book publishers--decided to start his own small press in 2005, he mashed up the words 'medium' and 'immediate' and launched Immedium [...]

Digital textbooks, once the playthings of a few Arizona high schools, are suddenly looking like they might become commonplace. And that could end up being a great thing for school [...]

One of my favorite things about being a reference librarian is the reference collection. I love perusing the subject encyclopedias for unique content and enjoy watching my collection grow, both [...]

A report by the Association of Research Libraries concludes that publishers and libraries are caught in 'an extended transition zone,' lasting at least five years, between print-only and e-only journals. [...]

What began as one of the more innovative, aggressive campaigns to bring e-books to the masses now appears to be meeting an all-too-familiar dot-corn fate, as officials at e-book provider [...]