Category: Books
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Sony eBook Reader PRS-500
Looks like the North American version of the Sony eBook reader will be out in time for Xmas. Still a little light on important details like price, and whether it will be possible to borrow books from a library, but Engadget has a slew of pictures that make me think I could do just fine…
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Free Online Books
Rich at eContent has pointed to two interesting sources of free books in the past week. The first is to a site called FreeLoad Press that sounds really familiar, but I didn’t blog it before so I must’ve not seen it before 😉 From the site: “Thanks to our sponsors, you can “freeload” e-textbooks and…
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Canada Post Library Book Rate extended to Jan 2008
CLA today announced that Canada Post will extend the current Book Rate until January 2008. That’s great, though what actually impacts my department is the last little paragraph in the press release (PDF) that reads: Recognizing that some smaller libraries have had challenges in implementing the new electronic tools, Canada Post has also extended the…
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Download books for free from Google Book Search
Business Week and BoingBoing both alerted me to the fact that you can now download public domain books in their entirety from Google Book Search! I haven’t visted GBS for a while, but when I went to check it out tonight I see that there’s a new search option radio button to limit to Full…
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Listen to why it’s good to give books away
Just finished listening to a short CBC piece in which SciFi author and BoingBoing.net contributor Cory Doctorow ‘splains how much sense it makes for books to be discoverable via Google Book Search and the like, and how he’s more sucessful commercially for having given away copies of his books. He points out that people don’t…
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Amazon for home delivery of items to library users?
Sarah passes on a great idea from Helene Blowers to use Amazon Library Processing to ship books to the end user, and when s/he’s done, the book will be returned to the library and thus be entered into the circulating collection. I like that idea a lot. It’s very similar to what we’ve been trying…
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DRM through cartoons
Two related items in the same week must be a sign, so check ’em out if you haven’t seen ’em yet. Thing #1) The Pig and the Box. From the site: The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig…
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Rice University Relaunches University Press – Online Only
Tim O’Reilly reports on a Wall Street Journal article about the online-only relaunch of Rich University Press. An excerpt: Although the new press will solicit and edit manuscripts the old-fashioned way, it won’t produce traditional books. The publishing house will instead post works online at a new Web site, where people can read a full…
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Call for Chapters – casebook on online information literacy programs
As noted on the OffCamp listserv, and in A Library Writer’s Blog, there is a call for chapters for an upcoming casebook on online information literacy programs. Chapter proposals are due on or before Sept. 30, and if accepted, they’ll be looking for about 15-pages by Feb 2007. “The goal of the book is to…