(10 October 2013) Like young people everywhere, Vietnam’s youth are abandoning print and paper for eBooks. Students are also ignoring libraries which only offer printed books and charge a deposit, according to Vietnamnet. Read the story here.
(Seattle, WA, 24 October 2013) – Serials Solutions® and Maruzen Company Ltd., are increasing access to Japanese eBooks through the Summon discovery service. Metadata from the Maruzen eBook Library will be indexed in the Summon service and mutual subscribers of each company’s service will be able to discover this authoritative eBook content, encompassing topics ranging…
(Waltham, MA, 23 October 2013) Elsevier today announced that it has agreed to provide edX with Elsevier science and technology book content for up to five massive open online courses (MOOC). edX offers online learning to students on campus and millions of people around the world with its open-source platform. Elsevier will provide textbook content…
(Farmington Hills, Mich., 23 October 2013) Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the addition of nearly 200 new children’s reference titles from revered publisher, Encyclopaedia Britannica, to its Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) eBook platform. GVRL delivers reference content and series…
(Charlotte, N.C., 18 October 2013) – Baker & Taylor, the world’s largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, today announced that Macmillan’s entire eBook backlist catalog of more than 11,000 titles eBooks is being made available to all public libraries using the Axis 360 digital media platform. In early 2013, Macmillan started…
(17 October 2013) The LIANZA Standing Committee on Digital Content and e-Lending has published its E-Book Issues Paper on the LIANZA website. This paper has been developed to provide an overview of the current eBook environment in New Zealand libraries, the wider New Zealand landscape and what is happening in the international arena. The paper…
(Amsterdam, 8 October 2013) Elsevier, today announced that Scopus has indexed the first 7,500 book titles as part of its Book Titles Expansion program. By 2015, an estimated 75,000 book titles will be indexed. The inclusion of book titles adds to the more than 50 million records indexed by Scopus which are derived from 20,000…
(7 October 2013) Simon & Schuster and Yilin Press today announced an unprecedented distribution and publishing agreement that will greatly expand the availability of electronic editions of works in Mandarin for readers worldwide. Under the agreement, Simon & Schuster will distribute eBooks of a broad cross-section of Yilin Press’s Mandarin language titles, making these works…
That’s what De Gruyter is offering through De Gruyter Select. You now can compile individual articles and content from its webshop into an exclusive book. For example, you can assemble single articles from a journal along with a book chapter into a high-quality, hardcover book and have it printed for your exclusive use. The print…
(13 September 2013) The China National Publications Import & Export Corporation (CNPIEC) and OverDrive have signed an ePublications Import License Agreement. With this agreement in place, OverDrive can make OverDrive’s catalog of digital content available in China to libraries and retailers. OverDrive will be working with Chinese libraries, schools, universities and retailers in China to…
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