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02/05/2012
Random House Keeping Ebooks in Libraries, Increasing Prices
Random House, Inc. is allowing unrestricted access to all of its ebooks held in libraries, and the publisher will continue to do so, but with a price increase. The ebook prices Random House charges to library wholesalers are scheduled to increase effective March 1.
02/03/2012
Ebooks on the radio: 6 pm ET tonight | The Loom
I’ll be talking on Wisconsin Public Radio with host Ben Merens about ebooks and the future of publishing. I’ll be on for the hour from 5 pm to 6 pm CT (6-7 ET) You can listen live here.
02/02/2012
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Launches iPad App for ASHP eBooks Store
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists , the 35,000-member organization for pharmacy professionals who practice in hospitals and health systems, today announced th
01/31/2012
Ebooks: More Boon to Literacy Than Threat to Democracy | The Crux
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for The New York Times and magazines such as DISCOVER , which also hosts his blog, The Loom . He is the author of 12 books, the most recent of which is Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed . It’s been nearly 87 years since F. Scott’s Fitzgerald published his brief masterpiece, The Great Gatsby . Charles Scribner’s and Son issued the first ...
01/30/2012
Ebooks encourage authors to stare at their shoes instead of shoot for the stars
?We are all junkies now,? says Libby Fischer Hellmann of Amazon?s KDP Select program which allows Amazon Prime subscribers to borrow ebooks, paying their authors a share of a set pot of money each month. Her point is that, with this huge growth in free ebooks from Amazon, prices are being eroded as users come to expect everything for free.
01/30/2012
Jonathan Franzen Is Wrong: Ebooks Are Good for Everyone
I love books, especially old ones. Recently I learned a simple dinner table trick from a 110-year-old magic book. It involves picking up a napkin with both hands and, without releasing either corner, tying the napkin into a knot. Good fun and likely unavailable anywhere but in this very old tome. That fact, though, does not make me love ebooks any less or think that they somehow are a better ...
01/18/2012
New eBooks about Siri Published
LifeWithSiri introduces two 99-cent eBooks; "Naughty" questions restricted to website.Delray Beach, Florida (PRWEB) January 18, 2012 The LifeWithSiri.com website has been completely redesigned and relaunched today with the addition of two new eBooks -- “The 50 Best Siri Tips” or “The 50 Funniest Siri Answers” – priced at $.99 each. ...
01/18/2012
OverDrive Adds Tens of Thousands of Non-English eBooks to Library Catalog
CLEVELAND, OH-- - OverDrive , the leading global digital distributor of eBooks and audiobooks to libraries and schools, has added thousands of foreign-language materials in dozens of genres to its broad ...
01/18/2012
eBooks Can Now Be Read on Any Computer or Tablet
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. , Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Amazon and Barnes & Noble have been quietly expanding the number of free apps available to read Kindle and Nook eBooks on any tablet, smart phone or computer. ...
01/10/2012
In Search of @Horse_ebooks
Jon Herrman at Splitsider tries to trace birth and maturation of @Horse_ebooks, maybe the most unlikely Twitter celebrity ever. @Horse_ebooks, if you aren't in on the joke, is a spambot Twitter account run out of Russia that tries to sell its followers terrible electronic books. It's followed en masse by 27,000, though, because in between its link to e-books it tweets absurdist snippets of text ...
