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…
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A Bit More On e-Books And Libraries
09
Dec
An article in The Atlantic called Library Wars: Amazon and Publishers Vie for Control of E-Book Rentals by Peter Osnos that examines the publishing world’s paranoia with e-books. They love the idea of selling them at prices comparable to print…
TR/Westlaw China Gobbles Up iSinolaw
22
Nov
Sadly, I must report about the latest so-called merger of online publishers. I just received a letter from Stephan Yao, CEO or Thomas Reuters Legal, China and Gordon Wong, Business Director of iSinolaw. According to this letter, the two companies…
Are eBooks Destined to Become the "8-track Tape" of the 21st Century?
29
Sep
In the context of current law eBook offerings, I think we can conclude from Jean O’Grady’s recent Dewey B Strategic post the answer to the title question is “yes.” (“The more I talk to publishers about the model for “circulating”…
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…
