Tag Archives: eBooks

Why Genre Rules e-Books, and What the Big Publishers Are Doing About It | Wired

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One of the biggest success stories in U.S. publishing in recent years has been the continued growth of digital book publishing. Last year, total revenue for e-book sales in the United States reached $3.04 billion, a 44.2% increase on 2011′s numbers and a figure all the more impressive when you realize that growth is additive to the print publishing industry. Even more surprising, publishers have focused much of their attention on genres like sci-fi, fantasy, mystery and romance fiction – markets that have traditionally lagged behind “literary fiction” in terms of sales.

See the full article: Why Genre Rules e-Books, and What the Big Publishers Are Doing About It | Wired

Recent Ebook News & ALM DCWG Big Six Matrix for Ebook Licenses Comparison

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See the full article at DCWG Big Six Matrix for Ebook Licenses Comparison | American Libraries Magazine. Link for the matrix here.

Recent Ebook News

New DRM Will Change the Words in Your E-Book | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

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The next e-book you buy might not exactly match the printed version. And those changes are there to make sure you’re not a pirate.

German researchers have created a new DRM feature that changes the text and punctuation of an e-book ever so slightly. Called SiDiM, which Google translates to “secure documents by individual marking,” the changes are unique to each e-book sold. These alterations serve as a digital watermark that can be used to track books that have had any other DRM layers stripped out of them before being shared online. The researchers are hoping the new DRM feature will curb digital piracy by simply making consumers paranoid that they’ll be caught if they share an e-book illicitly.

via New DRM Will Change the Words in Your E-Book | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

It will be interesting to see if those publishers who have recently moved to open access on ebooks reverse their stance due to this new technology. I’m sure libraries will be having many discussions about the implications of this new technology on ebook lending and relationships with publishers.

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Digital Rights Management (DRM) & Libraries | American Library Association 

Library For All Builds Ebook Platform for Developing World – The Digital Shift

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Library For All has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund an ebook platform that would enable the distribution of ebooks in the developing world. The organization is seeking $100,000 in pledges to roll out a pilot program at the Respire School in Gressier, Haiti this fall.

via Library For All Builds Ebook Platform for Developing World – The Digital Shift.

DC Announces Choose-Your-Own-Path Digital Comics | Underwire | Wired.com

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Less than two years after DC Comics began selling digital versions of its own comics on the same day as print, the superhero publisher announced two new digital comics formats: DC2, which will feature “dynamic artwork” that unfolds as the reader taps on the screen, and DC2 Multiverse, a choose-your-own-path format that will allow users to make decisions at key points that will unlock different storylines.

via DC Announces Choose-Your-Own-Path Digital Comics | Underwire | Wired.com.

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The Big Library Read Experiment | Sourcebooks.com

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A unique pilot program to research book discovery and generate data on libraries supporting authors.

Sourcebooks and OverDrive are partnering on a pilot program that will allow library patrons worldwide the opportunity to read New York Times bestselling author Michael Malone’s acclaimed novel “The Four Corners of the Sky” in ebook format. The Big Library Read is a no cost program in which libraries worldwide promote from their lending catalog a single ebook to their patrons. In addition to creating a global “library book club,” it’s designed to generate data about the positive exposure and sales influence library ebook catalogs provide to authors and publishers. See the full article at Library eBooks: The Role of Libraries in the Book Discovery Process | Sourcebooks.com.

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OverDrive and Sourcebooks to Launch Ambitious Ebook Data Experiment | The Digital Shift

A Selection of Fascinating E-book Innovations From the Past Year – Flavorwire

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A Selection of Fascinating E-book Innovations From the Past Year – Flavorwire

Collection of Links: eBooks

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I find it challenging to keep up with eBook news and resources, since it seems there are updates on an almost daily basis. I have provided links to the most informative and newsworthy below.

eBooks & Publishing

eBooks, Libraries & Publishers

Huff Post Books | Can NFC Technology Save Libraries, Provide Book Samples? (VIDEO)

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“Miami Ad School students Max Pilwat, Keri Tan and Ferdi Rodriguez have come up with a concept video about how public libraries could share book samples via subway ads – via the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology embedded in many cell phones.”

via Can NFC Technology Save Libraries, Provide Book Samples? (VIDEO) | Huff Post Books.

Book publishers blast Amazon’s plan to control domain names | Internet & Media – CNET News

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“Two industry groups argue that the retailer’s plan to control several generic top-level domains, including .book, .author, and .read, would be anti-competitive.”

via Book publishers blast Amazon’s plan to control domain names | Internet & Media – CNET News.