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30 Oct 09

E-books helping surge in library members - Telegraph

"After years of library membership declining and fears that the public no longer wanted to borrow books, some institutions are reporting a spike in interest since they started to offer e-books.

Only a handful of libraries have started to offer the service, but many in the library world are hopeful that the revolution in digital reading can help transform libraries' fortunes, and that the majority of libraries will soon offer downloads as a matter of course, alongside the latest Dan Brown paperback. " [UK focus]

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d i a p s a l m a t a: Google Books, Kindle, et al.: What more can be said?

"How can media and book historians (as well as academics more broadly) talk about, insert themselves into, the Kindle debates? We've developed sophisticated ways of talking about early modern reading practices, identified differences and dichotomies, even come up with a few nifty schemas for studying the circulation and production of print culture. This seems easy to do this, because we're talking about the past, what is dead and gone, existing only in (unsettlingly) silent artifacts. By contrast, the "e-book" debates are shockingly noisy, cluttered with the noise of real consumers -- not just dead words we can sift through on a page, but real people who confront us daily on the bus, clutching their Kindles; who live with us, bringing their e-readers to bed with them. How can we sort through this mess?"

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24 Oct 09

Graphic: A Big Boom in the Universe of Electronic Books

"To keep track of it all, we here at TechFlash have mapped out the known universe of e-books -- spanning content, devices, mobile apps, wireless providers, acquisitions, and more. We invite you to take a look, give us feedback, and let us know if we've missed anything. We'll be updating this chart on a regular basis."

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The Journal of Electronic Publishing: Toward the Design of an Open Monograph Press

John Willinsky: "This paper reviews and addresses the critical issues currently confronting monograph publishing as a matter of reduced opportunities for scholars to pursue book-length projects. In response, it proposes an alternative approach to monograph publishing based on a modular design for an online system that would foster, manage, and publish monographs in digital and print forms using open source software developments, drawn from journal publishing, and social networking technologies that might contribute to not only to the sustainability of monograph publishing but to the quality of the resulting books."

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