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Save the Date: Free Enhanced eBooks and Apps Best Practices Webcast on Jan. 19th
18
Jan
Presented by Digital Book World and sponsored by Constellation, “Enhanced Projects Best Practices” is a free one-hour webcast that will be broadcast on January 19th at 1 PM EST, 10 AM PST, and 6 PM GMT. From Digital Book World’s…
Publishers Hate Libraries, But We Sort Of Knew That
06
Jan
Techdirt has an interesting article on ebooks called If Libraries Didn’t Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? The article is a reaction to an examination of major publisher attitudes to providing ebooks to libraries as published in…
TR Legal’s Format Switcheroos: From Loose-leaf Sets to Pamphlet Editions to Bringing ProView eBooks to Market
09
Nov
Shaun Esposito, CRIV Chair, 2011-2012 and Head of Public Services at the University of Arizona College of Law Library, asked about the format change TR Legal has been executing from loose-leaf to pamphlet editions because “Several AALL members have asked…
The Patron-Driven Licensing Model: Turning the law library into a demand center for law eBooks
02
Nov
On Inside Higher Ed, Steven Kolowich reports: The [Education] Advisory Board report, a thick primer covering a range of trends in digital librarianship, predicts a shift in the way academic libraries provide book content to their patrons that mirrors a…
Thomson Reuters Is Going to Win the Second Round of the Law eBook Slugfest
27
Sep
Looks like the first round goes to Lexis. While you can acquire a few TR Legal eBooks via Amazon (yawn) and you can acquire some CCH and ABA eBooks on their e-commerce site (ditto, yawn), by the end of the…
Market for Enhanced eBooks Remains Largely Untapped But…
21
Sep
According to Aptara’s Uncovering eBooks’ Real Impact: Third Annual eBook Survey of Publishers, (free registration required) “[b]ook publishers are far more focused on getting titles into current eBook formats than on creating new types of enhanced and media-rich content—another reminder…
