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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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Free e-books: Where to get them
Look: It’s cold. The news is depressing. New movies and TV shows have ground to a halt. It won’t stop snowing. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so tack on six more weeks of winter. Time to curl up with a good book. Source: Free e-books: Where to get them Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/90604895/how-to-get-free-ebooks-kindle-library
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How to find great books online – The Verge
Find fantastic fiction for your phone or tablet… Source: How to find great books online – The Verge
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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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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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LAPL, SELF-e, Surprising Stats | Self-Publishing & Libraries
According to Sargent, “The Big Five traditional publishers now account for only 16% of the ebooks on Amazon’s bestseller lists. Self-published books now represent 31% of ebook sales on Amazon’s Kindle store.” Amazon, of course, isn’t the whole market. But it bears watching as an early indicator of market direction. How, then, should libraries begin…
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A look back at a record breaking year in digital reading (Infographic) | OverDrive Blogs
2014 was another record year for libraries and digital reading! Around the world users borrowed more than 136 million digital titles from OverDrive powered library and school websites. This included more than 15 million browser-based titles borrowed using OverDrive read and over 32 million audiobooks! To take a deeper look into the year that was…
