“With major bookstore chains struggling to draw foot traffic and ebooks proliferating online, publishers are finding it increasingly difficult to help potential customers discover new authors or explore their midlist titles. In this environment, libraries could be powerful partners…”via Libraries Offer Publishers Local Marketing Advantage – The Digital Shift.
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UPDATED: Letters to a Young Librarian | When Publishers Attack
UPDATED: News: Book publisher to drop lawsuit against McMaster librarian – Tame the Web (March 4, 2013)
“I feel like Edwin Mellen suing Dale [Askey] is yet another escalation in this increasingly adversarial relationship between publishers and librarians.” via Letters to a Young Librarian: When Publishers Attack.
The ALA President Maureen Sullivan responded today to this lawsuit.
As a recent MLIS graduate and future librarian, I will be following this lawsuit closely. In my opinion, publishers/presses have bigger (re: Amazon) concerns to focus their resources on than suing librarians for libel.
Used Ebooks, the Ridiculous Idea that Could Also Destroy the Publishing Industry | Motherboard
Great opinion article. Calling Amazon’s used ebook patent filing for what it is…another manoeuvre in the goal to make the traditional publishing industry obsolete.
Used Ebooks, the Ridiculous Idea that Could Also Destroy the Publishing Industry | Motherboard.
NYTimes.com – A Casualty on the Battlefield of Amazon’s Partisan Book Reviews
The following editorial is a great case study of trolls (a fan base in this instance) using the Amazon reviewing system to suppress the popularity of a publication, when in the past the problem has been over inflated reviews. No longer is it only governments and other political groups trying to suppress intellectual freedom.
A Casualty on the Battlefield of Amazon’s Partisan Book Reviews – NYTimes.com
Quotable: “In the biggest, most overt and most successful of these campaigns, a group of Michael Jackson fans used Facebook and Twitter to solicit negative reviews of a new biography of the singer. They bombarded Amazon with dozens of one-star takedowns, succeeded in getting several favorable notices erased and even took credit for Amazon’s briefly removing the book from sale.”
Oyster Raises $3M From Founders Fund To Finally Create An Unlimited Subscription Service For Books | TechCrunch
The Data-Driven, 21st-Century ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ – Betsy Morais – The Atlantic
“Flexibility is the guiding principle at Coliloquy: narrative structure, process, and format are all up for adjustment with every new title, and every last reader. A choose-your-own-adventure model* for the data-tracking age, its books are designed with multiple “pathways” that lead stories down divergent plotlines. The choices that readers make are logged, anonymously, for analysis by Coliloquy’s team and the authors themselves.”
via The Data-Driven, 21st-Century ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ – Betsy Morais – The Atlantic.
Publisher-Library Feud over E-Books Heats Up « Copyright and Technology
“The US trade associations for public libraries and book publishers exchanged heated words last week regarding the growing impasse over e-book lending.”
via Publisher-Library Feud over E-Books Heats Up « Copyright and Technology.
Sourcebooks Upgrades the Bard with ‘The Shakesperience’ Digital Editions
“In the latest effort to use digital technology to transform how consumers, students, and teachers engage classic literature, Sourcebooks is releasing The Shakesperience, enhanced e-books that exploit the iPad’s touchscreen technology to bring Shakespeare’s plays to life in new ways with a rich selection of carefully chosen multimedia and text. Sourcebooks is releasing Shakesperience editions of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Othello today, selling for $9.99 via Apple’s iBookstore.”
via Sourcebooks Upgrades the Bard with ‘The Shakesperience’ Digital Editions.
ALA Officials Ask for ‘Equitable Access to E-books at Fair Prices’
After an eventful week in the press, ALA officials and publishers engaged in a cordial exchange over e-books yesterday at an event hosted by the Association of American Publishers at their Fifth Avenue offices. Under a strict admonishment not to talk about specific business models or policies, due to antitrust concerns, ALA president Maureen Sullivan explained the basis of an ALA open letter published this week, before opening up the floor for an open exchange with the 70 or so publishers in attendance.
via ALA Officials Ask for ‘Equitable Access to E-books at Fair Prices’.
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