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Tor delays new-release sales to library ebook supplier Overdrive

Macmillan subsidiary SF/fantasy publisher Tor has started delaying sales of its new-release ebooks to library provider Overdrive. The news has just come out through a post on Goodreads that I found via...

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Should we replace public libraries with Amazon Books? Not likely!

The problem with ivory towers is that they’re often so far off the ground that it’s hard to see anything going on down there. Locked safely away from the real world, academics are free to dream up...

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Kobo Oasis rival: Forma has 8″ screen and easy-on-the-eye backlight. More...

What if the Oasis, Amazon’s top-of-the-line ereader, sported an eight-inch screen, an inch bigger than the current seven inches? Suppose the screen were more rugged or at least most likely so. And...

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Finding new Carnegies for libraries: Free NISO PowerPoint from...

Bill Gates once was on his way to becoming a new Carnegie for libraries, but his foundation has been winding down his Global Libraries initiative. How to bring Gates back and find other receptive...

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Ouch! Libby library app won’t officially run on Fires, export notes or let...

Libby, the ereading app from OverDrive, is a nice, easy way to find and read library books. In some places here in the States—I don’t know about outside the U.S.—you can even use Libby to sign up for...

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How ebooks can help you keep your New Year’s resolution to read more

Too many pro-book articles come with built-in tech bashing. Oh, yes, you need to read more. But if you’re serious about it, you’ll stick to paper. No ebooks! But Popular Science—perhaps because it...

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Blind librarian David Faucheux is Library Journal’s audiobook reviewer of the...

David Faucheux, a blind librarian who has contributed to TeleRead, is Library Journal’s audiobook reviewer of the year for 2018. “David has an incredible enthusiasm for a wide range of genres and...

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I have a very liberal friend who I found is very prejudiced: Part 1 of series

By Keith Gatling Patron Services Librarian for Technology at the Liverpool Public Library in the Syracuse, NY, area Part 1 of a two-part series. In Part 2, Keith tells how he uses ebooks. He’ll welcome...

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Librarian Keith Gatling loves ebooks: Here’s how he uses them: Part 2 of...

Part 2 of a two-part series on librarian Keith Gatling and ebooks. Part 1 is here. Feel free to ask him questions via comments. Some loved ebooks—others hated them. More than 150 comments showed up...

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No, libraries aren’t in the porn biz. Bizarre Colorado lawsuit dropped.

Librarians are witting porn purveyors? That’s what a bizarre lawsuit—filed in a Colorado district court by a little group called Pornography is Not Education—claimed last year. Naturally the group said...

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Trump’s new budget would kill IMLS—the main federal funder of libraries

Donald Trump hasn’t much use for books—except a precious few such as Trump: The Art of the Deal and other ghosted masterpieces. He converted the walnut-paneled library room in the old Marjorie...

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Trinity College Library, Dublin – the spirit of a nation

To see the cultural core of a nation that truly puts its literary heritage at the heart of its identity, you need only go to Trinity College Dublin and visit Trinity College Library. This houses the...

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The William Butler Yeats exhibition at the National Library of Ireland

One advantage of being the national poet of a new nation is that you’ll be sure of some fine memorials after your death. William Butler Yeats, as the national bard of modern Eire, has received condign...

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The new Museum of Literature Ireland and Eire’s literary heritage

The Republic of Ireland has just opened a new cultural institution, the Museum of Literature Ireland – sadly, just a few weeks too late for my visit to Dublin for Worldcon 77. A partnership between...

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Toxic for libraries? KKR investment firm to buy OverDrive, biggest library...

Toxic for libraries? The KKR investment firm is buying none other than OverDrive—the biggest library ebook company, providing ebooks and audiobooks to 43,000+ libraries and schools in 75 countries. The...

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Is Macmillan justified in windowing new-release library ebooks?

For the last few months, I’ve been watching the story unfold of publisher Macmillan’s decision to start windowing new-release ebook sales to libraries. Given that it’s coming up on six months with no...

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Ebooks and the coronavirus—and a related free classic by Mary Shelley

My sympathy to the thousands of victims of the coronavirus. The ripples are spreading. The Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and other libraries are shutting down for now. And librarians...

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Coronavirus social distancing pressures prompt end to Macmillan library ebook...

They say it’s an ill wind that blows no good. But what about the wind from an illness? “There are times in life when differences should be put aside,” writes Macmillan CEO John Sargent in a brief memo...

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Will in-person retail go the way of the dinosaur?

Three days ago, almost unnoticed amid the Corona scare, a small meteor passed close enough to earth to light up the skies with a brilliant fireball. Another is expected to pass just as near quite soon....

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Stuck at home? Entertain or educate yourself for free

It used to be that being a couch potato was almost universally deemed a negative—but it’s funny how it only takes a contagious epidemic to turn the normal state of things on its head. Fortunately,...

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