(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…
(Ann Arbor, MI, 18 June 2013) The HathiTrust Digital Library will partner with the recently launched Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) to expand discovery and use of HathiTrust’s public domain and other openly available content. DPLA provides an online portal to freely available digital material held by libraries, archives, and museums across the United…
(New Delhi, 13 June 2013) Today Amazon announced that Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9” will be available starting June 27 on Amazon.in for customers in India, giving them access to over 1.9 million of apps, games and books, including more than 325,000 books that are exclusive to the Kindle Store. Kindle Fire…
(7 June 2013, IDG News Service) After remaining quiet on the hardware front for years, Amazon.com’s China business has finally brought the company’s Kindle tablet and Kindle eReader to the country. ComputerWorld has the story:
(Washington DC & Stanford, CA, 30 May 2013) GeoScienceWorld (GSW) and HighWire Press today announced a significant expansion of their journals partnership through a new integrated eBooks platform built on the HighWire Open Platform. The GSW eBooks Collections will be the first nonprofit, multi-publisher eBooks platform devoted to the study of the earth sciences. It…
(25 May 2013) The Digital Public Library of America quoting the BBC reports: “The first purpose-built ‘bookless’ public library is due to open in Texas later this year and in the US capital, the first virtual reading room replaces books with computers and smart technology. Some of the nation’s most famous institutions are also collaborating in…
ProQuest has completed its acquisition of Ebook Library (EBL), significantly expanding its e-book delivery and aggregation capabilities with libraries worldwide. The acquisition supports ProQuest’s overall goal of enhancing the research experience through seamless discovery of content across multiple formats, including books, journals, dissertations, newspapers, and video. ProQuest does not anticipate disruption for EBL or ebrary…
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