Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques
I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.
Susan D'Agostino reports that unilateral changes by the publisher of a library e-book collection left some students without textbooks .
-DDLabels: e-books, E-textbooks, textbooks
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Ferris Jabr reviews the research of Anne Mangen and others, which seems to show that reading is more effect when done using paper and not an e-book.
-DDLabels: e-books
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Grant Gross reports that Apple needs to compensate users as a result of a price fixing trial.
-DDLabels: Apple Computer, e-books
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Jeffrey R. Young interviews American Library Association President Sari Feldman about the future of campus print collections .
-DDLabels: academic librarians, books, e-books, Public Library
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Dan Cohen, Director of the Digital Public Library of America, muses on the future of e-books as the technology continues to improve.
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Labels: e-books, technology market share
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Alexandria Alter discusses how Amazon is offering e-book and audio book rental for a flat $10/month subscription fee. However, many major publishers are not participating, presumably because it will cut profits or is contradicted in existing contracts with authors or other distribution channels.
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