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New Digital Library Launched in Romanian Transit Station

I’ve always been a fan of libraries, whether they are built into the flatbed of a truck in Mexico D.F. or whether they’ve grown to cover the entire city of Klagenfurt, Austria. Today’s library can be...

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Mexico City Launches New eBook Portal Project at Metro Stations

A few days ago I posted some details on a new digital library launched in a subway station in the capital of Romania. That project wasn’t so much a digital library as it was a marketing ploy by...

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Smashwords Sells 10 Thousand eBooks to Douglas County Libraries

A few of the major US publishers might not have much interest in selling ebooks to libraries, and as frustrating as that may be for ebook lovers it does leave the market open to everyone else. That...

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San Antonio’s Bookless Public Library is One Step Closer Reality

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about a new proposal for a bookless library outside of San Antonio, Texas. Bexar County was considering creating their own library system which would be independent of...

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ProQuest Buys EBL & Will Merge it with Ebrary; Ingram Adds Random House...

There’s a library conference coming up later this week so all the vendors have been sharing their big news.Ingram is a well known ebook and book distributor, and today they are trumpeting an addition...

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A Million Dollars in eBooks Doesn’t Go as Far As You Might Think

The Financial Times has an article on the NYPL on its website this week and it’s raising some eyebrows.The article looks at the general change in direction that the New York Public Library has taken in...

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Massachusetts to Launch State-Wide Digital Library

The state of Massachusetts is looking to get into ebooks in a big way. Last week the Massachusetts Library System put out an RFP (request for proposal) for a new statewide library ebook program....

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Virtual Library Launched in a Philadelphia Train Station

Cities all over the word are discovering that virtual libraries need little physical space, making it possible to place them in locations that would otherwise not be able to hold more than a handful of...

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Simon & Schuster Announces eBook Pilot Program in NYC

One of the last remaining holdouts among the Big Six Five publishers announced today that they were launching a new program to test the idea of selling ebooks to public libraries.Simon & Schuster...

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76% of US Libraries Offer eBooks, Nearly 2 in 5 Lend eReaders

The major publishers might not be all that interested in selling ebooks to libraries but the feeling is not mutual.The American Library Association released their annual state of the library report...

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LibraryBox Enters Public Beta, Offers a New Tool for Managing Your eBook...

Small local lending library boxes, be it a recycled phone booth or a custom built cubby, are growing increasingly popular. Book enthusiasts have been erecting them around the world, and now thanks to a...

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Updated: UK Publisher’s Association Launches Library eBook Pilot

The Publisher’s Association announced on Monday that they were launching a year-long e-lending pilot program which would study the effects of ebook lending in libraries. According to the announcement,...

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US Libraries Spend More on Audiobooks, DVDs than eBooks

Library Journal released the results of a survey last week, and it revealed that ebooks don’t have nearly as large of a share of libraries’ budgets as the one might assume from the press coverage. The...

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Turkish Airlines Launches Digital Library App for iPhone, Android

Turkish Airlines announced on Friday that they were launching a new digital library service for their frequent flier program. Sky Library, which is open to Turkish Airlines Miles & Smiles members,...

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Total Boox Will Make Their Pay-as-You-Read Service Free During National...

In honor of National Library Week, Total Boox announced today that their “pay-as-you-read” metered ebook platform will be completely free next week to all users. This Israeli startup offers a catalog...

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UK Library eBook Pilot Shows Library Loans Drive Sales

It’s been just over a month since the Publisher’s Association launched a year long e-lending pilot in partnership with 4 libraries in the UK, and the early results are showing that ebook borrowers are...

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Colorado’s Statewide Library eBook Pilot Project Enters Beta Tests

Douglas County Libraries announced on Monday that their statewide digital library project was entering small scale pilot test. The DCL had partnered with the Colorado Library Consortium last year to...

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Simon & Schuster Expands Library eBook Program to All US Libraries

Satisfied with their year-old library ebook pilot, Simon & Schuster announced today that they were making their entire catalog of frontlist and backlist titles available as ebooks to all libraries...

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Hip Video Explains All-Digital Library in Bexar County, Texas

–Read an e-book at home or in the library, or a digital comic or graphic novel. –Maybe even read E to your visiting  child if you’re a jailed mother. –Use two-way Google Hangouts video to enjoy a...

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Report: Library eBook Lending Lags the US in Much of the World

A new report from the IFLA reminds us that annoyances like Penguin and other major US trade publishers restricting checkouts is truly a first world problem. Released last week, the IFLA 2014 eLending...

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