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Why I Hate Reading on the Kindle Fire: A Plea to Amazon

Posted: May. 3, 2012.

Dear Amazon:

I hate reading on the Kindle Fire, and that has bothered me enough to lead to this plea. As someone who is regularly asked to recommend e-readers, it distressed me that I felt such animosity towards the Fire without an obvious reason for it.

ALA Board Backs Intensified Ebook Advocacy

Posted: Apr. 27, 2012.

Ebooks and the Big Six publishers was the first topic addressed at the ALA Executive Board spring meeting, held April 21–22. Because the board fully appreciates the importance of this issue to ALA members, we had planned one hour and 45 minutes for the discussion—an unusually long amount of time for the board to devote to any topic.

Who Really Wants DRM?

Posted: Apr. 26, 2012.
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Do you want DRM on your ebooks? I certainly don’t, and I would guess that most of you would much rather not have to deal with the security theater of DRM either. So who really wants to lock down your content?

The Social Side of Reading

Posted: Apr. 26, 2012.

Reading, a social activity. How could that be? Isn’t reading all about sitting quietly with some material and taking in the words and the style and the voice?

Building the Digital Public Library

Posted: Apr. 19, 2012.

There are no bricks, architect, or blueprint for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). But as John Palfrey, codirector of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, says, the DPLA has built a strong foundation through a growing and vibrant community.

[P/p/?]ublishing

Posted: Apr. 19, 2012.

One of the interesting conversations that has emerged from ALA’s Digital Content and Libraries Working Group (DCWG) is a comparison of Publishing with a capital P and publishing with a lowercase p. Or, to be blunt, commercial Publishing vs. self-publishing. But is there something in the middle? Something between a capital P and a lowercase p?

OverDrive Ebook Data Gets Crunched

Posted: Apr. 18, 2012.

This just in from ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy, courtesy of the District Dispatch blog:

Join the National Research Effort on Ebooks and Libraries

Posted: Apr. 16, 2012.

Today the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project will begin surveying public library staff and patrons to learn more about their experiences with ebooks.

Judgment Day for Apple and Big Five Publishers

Posted: Apr. 13, 2012.

A recent Justice Department lawsuit has charged the technology company and publishers with colluding to artificially increase ebook prices

Judgment day has come for Apple and the big five publishers in the form of a Justice Department lawsuit charging that the technology company and publishers colluded to artificially increase ebook prices.

E-Reading Status Check from Pew

Posted: Apr. 5, 2012.

In a new report released this morning, Pew Internet looks at “The rise of e-reading.” The major points? 1 in 5 adult Americans has read an ebook in the last year.