(29 December 2014) New figures show the rate at which New Zealanders are moving away from books towards digital media. New figures taken by Impact PR from an analysis of data provided by the Companies Office show more book retailers closed in 2013 than in any of the previous 12 years. New figures taken by…
(7 January 2015) After more than eight years of ownership, Vista Equity Partners has sold SirsiDynix to ICV Partners, with Vista retaining and company executives acquiring minority stakes in the company. While it is too early to assess how new investment owners will shape the direction of the company going forward, it is clear that…
(12 January 2015) OvidToday™ is the first journal iPad® app for Ovid® subscribers. Researchers can read their favorite journals from their library right on their iPad – at no extra charge. Visit the Ovid ResourceCenter for information including posters, banners, Tweets, email templates and more. Click here to download.
(7 January 2015) Gerald Lynch asks is the eBook revolution on its last legs? That’s what both physical book retailers and digital book sales figures from the Christmas period would suggest, with eBook and eReader purchases sliding significantly in the UK. Waterstones, the UK’s largest bookshop chain, told the Financial Times that sales of Amazon’s…
(9 January 2015, Miami, FL) ODILO announces the launch of OdiloPlace, their digital content marketplace featuring titles from publishers such as ABDO, Atlantic Publishing, Book View Café, Diversion Books, Encyclopedia Britannica, Enslow Publishers, HarperCollins Publishers, Little Pickle Press, Macmillan, Open Road Media, Prologue, Simon & Schuster, Rowman & Littlefield, Untreed Reads Publishing, Xist Publishing, and…
(7 January 2015) goodEreader reports that on the same day that the Times of India reported on the possible reasons for a lagging eBook retail market in India, news sources announced an education initiative in the Indian state of Kerala that will put digital textbooks in the hands of nearly four million students and educators…
(8 January 2015, Dublin, Ohio) OCLC and the British Library now offer a new option for fast, flexible purchase from the British Library Document Supply Service that enables library staff to confirm the availability of required documents before placing an order, and provides a wide range of choices for delivery and price. Rather than sending…
(5 January 2015) ‘The power of our network’ is the slogan that accompanies the KB Strategic Plan 2015-2018. It is published on the eve of a drastic change, the implementation of the Public Library Provisions System Act (Wsob) on 1 January 2015. Under this act, the KB (National Library of the Netherlands) will play a…
( 8 January 2015) The ARL reports that for the past several years, HathiTrust and five of its member universities have been engaged in litigation after being sued by the Authors Guild. On 6 January 2015, the parties entered a settlement on the sole issue remaining before the district court, ending the litigation in a…
(9 January 2015) Two large banners greet patrons when they walk into Orlando Public Library. Amid posters about the library’s family-friendly services and upcoming programming, the banners urge patrons to do something a bit uncharacteristic for a nearly 100-year-old institution: download an iBeacon app. In November, the library implemented BluuBeam, an Orlando-based service that uses…
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