Google to launch Play textbooks in August
Techcrunch is reporting that Google is bringing textbooks to the Google Play store for purchase or rent in August. Read the story by Frederic Lardinois here. .
Techcrunch is reporting that Google is bringing textbooks to the Google Play store for purchase or rent in August. Read the story by Frederic Lardinois here. .
(8 July 2013) Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Temasek Holdings Pte agreed to buy a minority stake in China’s Cloudary Corp. (READ) at a 25 percent lower valuation than in a previous funding round, said two people with knowledge of the matter. The story is reported by Bloomberg, here.
Deal makes content available globally to people with print disabilities (Berlin / New York, 15 July 2013) Springer has signed an agreement to provide Bookshare, an international leader in providing people with visual impairments, physical disabilities and/or learning disabilities access to copyrighted digital accessible books, with world rights to its titles. Springer is home to the world’s…
(New York, NY , 16 July 2013) Student use of alternative and illicit course materials is on the rise, according to new research from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)’s ongoing survey of Student Attitudes Toward Content in Higher Education. The second installment in Volume Three of the study, which is powered by Bowker Market…
(Stanford, CA & Providence, RI, 16July 2013) HighWire Press, the leading ePublishing platform for scholarly publishers has a strategic artnership with Tizra to extend eBook functionality and integration to the HighWire Open Platform. “HighWire provides an advanced digital publishing platform to help industry‐leading scholarly publishers innovate and thrive,” said Tom Rump, Managing Director of HighWire.…
(10 July 2013) Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer in charge of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division made the following statement today after the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York found that Apple Inc. violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by conspiring to raise eBook prices and end eBook retailers’…
(9 July 2013, Chicago) ALA Editions will hold a session of its popular facilitated eCourse, E-Books: What Librarians Need to Know Now and for the Future with Mirela Roncevic.This four-week eCourse wiill begin on 3 September 2013. Mirela Roncevic has been involved with eBooks and eReaders since their emergence, and in this new eCourse she’ll give you…
(26 June 2013) Copia, the socially-driven digital content platform that provides customized learning solutions for students, educators and publishers, today announced two major partnerships in Australia, where it is the leading partner in the region for eBook aggregation and distribution. A strategic partner of the Australian Publishers Association (APA), Copia is powering the eBook component…
(Washington, D.C. 26 June 2013) The Library Copyright Alliance applauds the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for finalizing the Treaty for the Blind, a treaty that will allow nations to share or make accessible copies for the print disabled in other countries, who more often than not, have little access to reading materials. WIPO issued…
CUHK’s Chinese University Press is among them (Baltimore, MD, 18 June 2013) Eight distinguished scholarly presses, including the recently-revived University of Missouri Press and the Chinese University Press, are confirmed to join the University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) and make their books available digitally on the Project MUSE platform in 2014. Cornell University Press, Northern Illinois…
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