(18 Feb 2025) From the student perspective, having instant access has become the norm, with streaming platforms and digital media services promising unlimited access to a breadth of content. It can be challenging for libraries to keep pace with student demand, while also ensuring that their collections remain well-rounded with a variety of publishers and disciplines…
(24 Oct 2024) Digital book sales in the United States have been strong since the summer. In August 2024, e-book revenues were up 6.1%, generating 90.4 million dollars. Year-to-date e-book revenues were up 3.5% compared to the first eight months of 2023, for $687.4 million. It is good to know that people are reading digitally again,…
(18 Oct 2023) A new service that increases the availability of e-books at public libraries has led to a nearly 80 percent increase in borrowing in the first month since it was implemented, the Ministry of Culture said yesterday. From last month, people are allowed to borrow 10 e-books from public libraries at a time,…
(24 Apr 2023) The rapid adoption of ebooks in recent years has led to greater scrutiny of pricing models. For a long time the adoption of ebooks by libraries lagged behind the adoption of ejournals, but a seismic change came with the Covid-19 pandemic. As Jack Macdonald, Director of Library Sales at Cambridge University Press…
Evolution of children’s literature into high-tech form may offer benefits, but also some detriments By Cypress Hansen (28 May 2021, feed from Knowable Magazine) Grandma’s picture books had colored ink. Dad’s had pop-outs and fun textures. Today kids’ books can feature videos in place of illustrations, define words aloud and have characters that walk across…
(21 December 2018) Various initiatives include increasing access and range of e-books, holding outdoor pop-up libraries around the city and loaning books to pre-schools; and use of printed books is down as surveys show e-books are read by only 12 per cent of internet users while just 36 per cent of primary school pupils ‘love…
(13 December 2018) Lean Library’s Library Alternatives, the module of the Lean Library browser extension that facilitates alternative routes to full-text resources, will now support eBooks. Acquired by SAGE Publishing earlier this year, the award-winning technology platform allows seamless access to journals, articles, open access content, and now eBooks that are licensed by a user’s…
(6 December 2018) Speaking at the seminar “Developing and reforming library activities in the new era”, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam emphasized that digitalization of library nationwide will help people to access books easily. The seminar was held yesterday by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. According to the Ministry, library system has…
(31 October 2018) Following extensive discussions, libraries in the Netherlands have come to an agreement with publishers and others about eBook availability in the country. Published in the Official Journal on 24 October, the Covenant (available in Dutch) promises to ensure that more books are available for e-Lending by libraries, within a shorter period of…
(21 September 2018, Baltimore, MD) Nearly 300 open access (OA) books are now available from Project MUSE, the highly-acclaimed online collection of humanities and social science scholarship, on a newly designed platform that represents a major step forward in OA publishing in these fields. The books will be delivered in a highly-discoverable and adaptable format…