New York is now the second state to pass a bill that would ensure public libraries the right to license and lend e-books that are available to consumers in the state. The bill is now headed to governor Andrew Cuomo's desk.
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Despite financial pressure, we therefore are advancing on two fronts, the digital and the analog. People often talk about printed books as if they were extinct. I have been invited to so many conferences on “The Death of the Book” that I suspect it is ver
With the 3M Cloud Library, patrons can browse, borrow, and read an e-book anywhere - no Internet required. It's easy to use, and apps are available for most devices.
Wall Stret Journal , June 20, 2010. Underrubrik: Lenders Join Forces to Let Patrons Check Out Digital Scans of Shelved Book Collections Overdrive. Quote: "We're trying to build an integrated digital lending library of anything that is available anywhere, where you can go and find not just information about books, but also find the books themselves and borrow them," said Brewster Kahle, the founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive. With its latest project, the organization is making inroads into the idea of loaning in-copyright books to the masses. Only one person at a time will be allowed to check out a digital copy of an in-copyright book for two weeks. While on loan, the physical copy of the book won't be loaned, due to copyright restrictions. "
May 23, 2012 Contact: Jazzy Wright Washington, D.C.—The American Library Association (ALA) today released a new report examining critical issues underlying equitable access to digital content through our nation’s libraries. In the report, titled “E-content: The Digital Dialogue,” authors explore an unprecedented and splintered landscape in which several major publishers refuse to sell e-books to libraries; proprietary platforms fragment our cultural record; and reader privacy is endangered.
With so much uncertainty, libraries nationwide are thinking twice about building electronic collections. Thirty-nine percent of America's 9,225 public libraries have no digital lending program, according to a 2011 survey from the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies. Many would like to add more e-books, librarians say, but they're waiting to see if publishers back down.
An extensive article by Charles Petersen on the New York Public library NYPL May 2012 Conclusion: "The renovation is elitism garbed in populist rhetoric, ultimately condescending to the very people the library’s board thinks they’re serving. It suggests that no one other than an Ivy League professor or student could ever hope to engage in scholarship or original research. Leave the heavy lifting to the folks at Harvard and McKinsey (and the quants in our commodities division), the financiers are saying; for the rest of you, there will be lovely sun-filled spots to check your email."
WSJ, Alexandra Alter : "Publishers are only just beginning to mull over the potential uses for e-reading data. Many are skeptical that analytics can aid in the industry's ongoing battle to woo consumers who are increasingly distracted by games and social media. But at a time when traditional publishers are losing ground to tech giants like Amazon and Apple, better analytics seem to offer tantalizing possibilities."
Last week Simon & Schuster signed a deal with 3M and the NYPL to distribute eBooks into libraries. Now all of the “Big6″ corporate publishers have some type of agreement selling eBooks into public libraries.
San Antonio's book-rich public libraries will be unaffected by the project. Bexar County, by contrast, never had a public library service. "I think we're at an advantage there," Ms Cole said. "They've never had a library with books - there's not even a bookstore here." The BiblioTech library in San Antonio, Texas, will offer 10,000 digital titles Judge Wolff has cited Apple founder Steve Jobs as inspiration for the BiblioTech. The New York Public Library is also increasingly lending e-books As well as offering digital books to 1.7m people, the $1.5m BiblioTech project has a big community education remit. It will partner with local schools and run digital literacy courses and will stay open late into the evenings.
Publisher's Weekly By Peter Brantley | Nov 29, 2013 "It is hard to understand what the Authors Guild hopes to achieve by continuing the litigation. In a dramatically changing landscape where authors can now easily self-publish, bypassing existing publishing houses, yet where a new ecosystem supporting the creative arts does not wholly exist, can the guild not find more pressing needs on which to spend its time and resources than the digitization of out-of-print library books?"