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How libraries deal with e-books

7 Sep

Librarian And Information Science News

Teleread links to a blog post about how libraries deal with e-books.
“Oliver” at the Krafty Librarian has coverage of a discussion from a recent webinar concerning how libraries and librarians are relating to e-books. Though he mainly comes at the issue from a medical and academic librarian’s perspective, the points he mentions are largely universal to all types of libraries.
Link to entry at Teleread

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Amazon caught by fake e-book scam

6 Sep

AustralianIT.com.au

AMAZON has been forced to remove a fake Jamie Oliver title from its Kindle Australia e-reader bookstore.

Read more over at www.australianit.news.com.au
eBooks to save education? Yes, according to digital publishing specialist

6 Sep

Release Wire - Education and Human Resources

Digital publishing specialist, The Digital Publisher, has today stated that unless text books are converted to eBooks, the projected 25% cut in education funding could wreck Britain’s reputation as a world leader in teaching and learning.

With October’s forthcoming spending review likely to place unprecedented pressure on education, teachers' unions are warning that "this level of funding reduction will inevitably include fairly savage staffing cuts".

However, The Digital Publisher in its education whitepaper argues that transforming text books into digital eBooks could save the UK £hundreds of millions and the jobs of thousands of teachers.

The idea is not new. In 2009 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared that all California’s text books should be put online in a bid to substantially reduce the $350 million dollars it currently spends on the books.

Ian Jackson, Head of Digital at The Digital Publisher, says: “Our latest whitepaper, Advancing Education through Digital Editions, not only shows how much education establishments can save, it also demonstrates how eBooks can be far superior to text books because of embedded rich media in the form of video and audio as well as a host of other features.”

Jackson continues, “Don’t forget that text books are updated every couple of years but with eBooks these changes can be made in minutes for little cost.”

The Digital Publisher’s new whitepaper shows clearly how education professionals can use eBook technology to its fullest potential. Alongside embedded video and other rich media content, the eBook demonstrates features designed to assist students including digital bookmarking, contextual search tools, online page highlighter and page tabs.

Jackson adds, “eBooks are useful in many areas of education, not just text books – brochures, theses and prospectuses can all be transformed into digital editions easily and at a fraction of the cost of printing.”

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For further information please contact Jeremy Walters on 07931 381209 or jez.walters@virgin.net

Notes to Editors

Advancing Education through Digital Editions whitepaper
Website: www.thedigitalpublisher.co.uk/whitepaper-education

The Digital Publisher
Website: www.thedigitalpublisher.co.uk

Case Study examples
Leeds University: www.thedigitalpublisher.co.uk/sportshandbook09
NASUWT Teaching Today: http://www.thedigitalpublisher.co.uk/nasuwt-ttoday-july2010

Sales & Marketing Email Contact:
ian@thedigitalpublisher.co.uk

- Jez walters 06-09-2010

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Online book clubs make the rounds following e-book popularity

4 Sep

IBTimes.com - Industries

"Reading online doesn't quite feel the same as reading a real book," says Anisha Ramanathan, a market researcher, in response why she has not invested in an e-reader yet. Even as Amazon released its 3 version of the e-reader Kindle, the debate had been hotting up about the e-book vs. a paper book. Or as some call it, a 'real' book.

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CCA is proud to announce their two e-books on Raising Capital are now available on AMAZON-KINDLE

4 Sep

PR Leap - Recent News Releases

The Expert Edition includes 19 chapters from "The Five Most Important Concepts When Raising Capital" to "Soliciting & Selling Securities to Raise Capital."

Read more over at www.prleap.com
eBooks meet Big Brother; the Twitter effect on moviegoers

4 Sep

Networked World DEMOcast

Keith and Carla chat about Amazon's Orwellian response to Kindle users and whether data can be owned anymore, and whether Twitter really can make or break your movie's box office totals. (28:04)

Read more over at www.networkworld.com
eBook Guilt

4 Sep

PC Plus

Nothing makes me feel guiltier than buying ebooks. I don’t doubt that they’re the future, but in my heart, I don’t want them to be. I like paper. I like the feel of books. I like having shelves of them, filled with memories and trophies of old stories. I like the tactile sense of flipping a page, and the satisfaction of reaching the end. I like the lack of distractions, of being able to sit back, switch the world off and get lost in mystery and adventure for a couple of hours, courtesy of a solid block of pure story.
Unfortunately, I also like convenience. Which is why when I was in town yesterday trying to track down the next novel for a book group I’m part of, it didn’t take long for my principles to waver. Amazon had no copies in. The bookstore could order one, but it would take a week or so. I didn’t even stop to think. By the time the cashier was finished apologising for not stocking an obscure (and not very good) novel, I had my phone in my hand, and with just a couple of presses, that book was sitting on my iPad at home. No waiting, no hesitating, and actually slightly cheaper than buying the book from the store. Hurrah.
And yet not hurrah. The thing is, a book isn’t simply a collection of words, in much the same way that a film isn’t the same at the cinema as it is on DVD, or if you see it alone instead of with a group. We read differently on screens, the action of switching pages just lacking that tactile oomph of turning over a new leaf. Soon, only millionaires and truly hardcore book snobs will have the satisfaction of hurling the new Dan Brown novel into the fireplace.
For my part, I’ve read several novels in ebook form, but I often catch myself just not doing it right. I find it harder to remember what I just read. When I flick the pages, it’s faster, more dismissive. When I get to the end, there’s no real satisfaction at a book well read, but something more reminiscent of slobbing out in front of the TV for the evening. That was fun, I think to myself, but only so long as it takes to start wondering what else is on. YouTube. Videos. TV Tropes. Anything will do, so long as it’s momentarily diverting, which isn’t the book experience at all.
Really, using an ebook makes me realise what real music fans felt like a few years ago. For me, music isn’t particularly important. It’s background noise. It’s added spice to something. It’s not something I ever sit down and listen to. I own about five CDs. Moving to digital formats was easy because I didn’t really have anything to miss. Liner notes? Never read them. Pretty box art? Never cared. I shouldn’t really complain that other people feel the same way about my precious books, although I should point out that this isn’t going to stop me for one self-righteous femtosecond.
The real fear, though, isn’t that other people will abandon the printed word, but that as time rolls on, and ebooks become easier and easier to buy and read, screens become more eye-friendly (the iPad is fine, but it’s high contrast – Amazon’s Kindle on the other hand offers a great reading experience with its e-ink technology, but has limited functionality), I’ll find myself drifting away.
The technology we have now can only improve. Higher-resolution screens that allow for scribbled notes in the margins, as well as more official typed ones. Instant bookmarks to jump right to the fun bits. Easy clipping and quoting. Possibly even a virtual fireplace for immediate cultural gratification.
And that’s only thinking about recreating the experience of books as is. There are so many things that could be added, from integrated discussion forums that you automatically visit at the end of a book, to simply being able to tap a button to send a thumbs-up to the author as recognition for a story well told, or to pre-order an upcoming sequel while you’re still burning to know what happens next.
I want to see where all of this takes us, and how the electronic book world adapts to an audience that increasingly doesn’t feel as compelled to read. I want to be part of that, even as I feel the dirty looks from my shelves of old books every time I break out the iPad.
The simple fact, though, is that it doesn’t really matter. I love reading. Always have, always will. That won’t change based on what books turn into over the next few years, and nor will the decades of good memories. Paper may or may not have long left at the centre of the book industry, but at least it’ll always have a place in my heart.

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Sony updates e-book readers

3 Sep

Register Hardware

Touchscreens across the range

Sony has updated its line of E Ink e-book readers, adding brighter screens, touch technology and reducing the devices' physical sizes.…

Read more over at www.reghardware.co.uk
E-books in a Correctional Setting: a niche market

3 Sep

Librarian And Information Science News

Excerpt from article at Corrections.com
I immediately saw the advantage of e-books in the prison setting. If each inmate could have a library of over 1,000 titles in one small e-book reader, it would cut down on hiding contraband among the books (such as sandpaper to erase their uniform logo), remove the unsanitary habit of reading books in the rest-room, cut down on repairing books (averaging 20% or over 1,200 books destroyed each year), free up space by limiting the 3 X 8 foot long bookshelves that only hold 640 books for 100 inmates in each unit, encourage struggling readers to listen to a book while reading the text on the screen, and, finally, allow anyone to increase the size of the font so LARGE PRINT will never be limited to a few titles!
Full article

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Sony Introduces New eBook Readers

3 Sep

The Gadgeteer

Sony Touch, Daily Edition, and Pocket Readers
The Sony Style website has been updated to show three new eBook readers. There’s no release date yet, but you can leave your email address to be notified when they are released. All three Reader models have been updated to use the latest E-Ink Pearl technology, which offers higher contrast because of its whiter background. There are no prices shown for any of the Readers. All three Readers now have touch screens, and the Pocket Edition has lost its big navigation buttons.
Both the 6” Touch Edition (PRS-650) and the 5” Pocket Edition (PRS-350) offer two built-in English dictionaries and ten translation dictionaries. Both will have 2GB internal memory, and the Touch will allow the use of SD and Memory Stick PRO Duo cards. You can enter freehand notes with the included stylus or use the virtual keyboard in both units. Both Readers use USB to add content, and it seems they will work for the same type of ebooks as the current Readers. The Touch Edition will be available in black or red, and the Pocket Edition is available in silver or pink. You can learn more about the Touch Edition and the Pocket Edition Readers at the Sony Style site.
The 7” Reader Daily Edition features built-in WiFi and free 3G mobile broadband connection to the Reader Store. It will also have a touch screen for note-taking and highlighting. It will be available in silver. Few details are available at Sony Style for the new PRS-950 version of the Daily … [visit site to read more]

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Sony Introduces New eBook Readers originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on September 1, 2010 at 10:00 am.
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