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More and more books are being banned. SoCal libraries find a solution – Los Angeles Times
California More and more books are being banned. SoCal libraries find a solution A worker shelves books at the Billie Jean King Main Library in Long Beach. The Long Beach Public Library is participating in Books Unbanned, a nationwide effort to provide access to books for young people. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) By Annie…
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Enjoy Digital Ownership And Public Libraries While You Still Can | Techdirt
from the you’ll-miss-them-when-they’re-gone dept Wed, Jun 29th 2022 07:29pm – By Glyn Moody Michael E. Karpeles, Program Lead on OpenLibrary.org at the Internet Archive, spotted an interesting blog post by Michael Kozlowski, the editor-in-chief of Good e-Reader. It concerns Amazon and its audiobook division, Audible: Amazon owned Audible ceased selling individual audiobooks through their Android app from…
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An App Called Libby and the Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books | The New Yorker
Increasingly, books are something that libraries do not own but borrow from the corporations that do. By Daniel A. Gross, September 2, 2021 Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and audiobooks—i.e., “digital…
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Amazon withholds its ebooks from libraries because it prefers you pay it instead – The Verge
Amazon’s publishing arm has refused to sell digital books to libraries By Nick Statt@nickstatt, Mar 10, 2021, 1:39pm EST Amazon is withholding ebook and audiobook versions of works it publishes through its in-house publishing arms from US libraries, according to a new report from The Washington Post. In fact, Amazon is the only major publisher…
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How Digital Lending Service Hoopla Brings Libraries Into The Internet Era
Hoopla, one of the digital lending services allowing libraries to offer ebooks and other digital content, has helped drive the unassuming library ebook to success in over 1,600 public library systems. Here’s how. Source: How Digital Lending Service Hoopla Brings Libraries Into The Internet Era
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To Your Brain, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’ — Science of Us
A cognitive psychologist on a question that annoys him. Source: To Your Brain, Audiobooks Are Not ‘Cheating’ — Science of Us
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How Audiobooks Are Becoming an Art Form Unto Themselves
Audiobooks are here to stay—and that’s good news for readers. Source: How Audiobooks Are Becoming an Art Form Unto Themselves
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2017 Listen List Winners Revealed – RUSA Update
The Listen List Council of the Collection Development and Evaluation Section (CODES) of the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) has announced the 2017 selections of the Listen List: Outs… Source: 2017 Listen List Winners Revealed – RUSA Update
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Audiobooks were set to destroy books — but instead, they opened a new world – The Washington Post
Matthew Rubery on the curious history of ‘phonography.’ Source: Audiobooks were set to destroy books — but instead, they opened a new world – The Washington Post
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Barnes & Noble Gets Back Into Downloadable Audio
“After dropping downloadable audiobooks earlier this year, Barnes & Noble is returning to the business with the release of the Nook Audiobooks App for Android devices. The app offers access to 50,000 digital audiobooks, and features audiobook samples, recommendations and regularly discounted titles. The Nook Audiobooks app is available today, November 19, in the Google…
