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Which ebook model will Penguin Random House use for libraries?

October 29, 2012
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It’s official.  Bertelsmann’s Random House and Pearson’s Penguin announced today that they are being merged into a joint venture called Penguin Random House (sadly not Random Penguin or Penguin House). Random House will be 53 percent of the new company and Penguin will be 47 percent.  The CEO of Random House will be the CEO of the new company and the CEO of Penguin will be chairman.  The merger will

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Google Cultural Institute could be part of a national digital library

October 11, 2012
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Imagine a public library that focused on providing access to digital versions of books, photographs, historical records, audio recordings and videos to anyone with access to the Internet.  The library’s mission would be to efficiently store a huge amount of digital content and make it easily searchable and accessible. There is an organization trying to create such a library known as the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).  The idea is that

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Amazon unveils new Kindles that should make more people read ebooks

September 6, 2012
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In a much anticipated move, Amazon introduced their next generation of Kindles today.  In general, the new devices are faster, better and cost less than last year’s batch. It looks like Amazon is going for the Goldilocks approach when it comes to ereaders and tablets.  They pretty much have a device for everyone.  On a budget?  Get the entry level Kindle ereader for only $69 ($10 less than it was

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Amazon Kindle Owners’ Lending Library now has over 200,000 ebooks

September 5, 2012
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Amazon can put another notch in their ebook “library” bedpost.  As of this writing, there are now 200,433 ebook titles in the list of ebooks in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. Amazon’s Lending Library launched under a year ago on November 3, 2011.  It allows anyone that owns a Kindle and that subscribes to Amazon Prime for $79 per year to be able to borrow one ebook from the library

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100 million ebooks downloaded from Kindle Owners’ Lending Library

August 28, 2012
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Amazon has done the unthinkable…again.  The company announced today that over 100 million ebooks have been either borrowed or purchased from their Kindle Owners’ Lending Library. We remember way back when Amazon launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library ten months ago how it only had 5,400 titles in it.  Now the library contains over 180,000 ebooks.  That means the company has added over 17,000 ebooks a month or 580 ebooks a day

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Amazon sticks Unglue.it with suspended payments

August 14, 2012
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Amazon just let everyone know how they feel about the new ebook crowdfunding site Uglue.it.  Amazon Payments has been the payment processor for Unglue.it since they launched in May, but last week they decided to pull the plug and halted all transactions from the site. Apparently crowdfunding presents too many legal issues for Amazon to keep up with so they decided to reject all crowdfunding business in the future.  The one exception

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Amazon now sells more ebooks than print books in the UK

August 6, 2012
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It looks like Olympic athletes aren’t the only ones setting new records in London.  The Telegraph reported today that Amazon now sells more ebooks than print books on their UK site. Amazon revealed in its latest UK sales figures that they are selling 14 percent more ebooks than physical hardbacks and paperbacks combined.  Ebooks have been outselling print books on their US site for over a year, but this is the first time

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Charging sales tax on ebooks could be really good for libraries

July 27, 2012
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Get ready for prices to go up on everything you buy online.  The Wall Street Journal recently reported that tax breaks for online shoppers might be nearing their end.  Internet sales and digital goods might soon be subject to sales tax just like physical goods and physical store sales.  This means that customers would be charged sales tax when they purchase an ebook.  This could be good news for libraries.

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Publishers could use movie release windows for ebooks at libraries

July 13, 2012
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Ever seen a movie on a store shelf and decide you want to rent it from Netflix or Redbox only to find out that it’s not available to be rented yet?  That annoying situation exists due to the release windows that the movie companies have implemented to protect their sales. The typical movie goes through a life cycle that is carefully controlled by these release windows.  The movie is first released in theaters (unless

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Free ebooks are available at your local public library!

June 27, 2012
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Over 75 percent of U.S. libraries lend out ebooks for free and thousands of them have had ebooks available since 2007.  A lot of libraries (39.1 percent) even loan out ereaders!  You would think most people would know that you could get free ebooks at the library by now.  Unfortunately, this isn’t the case according to a new Pew report on libraries. A shocking 62 percent of people surveyed did not know if

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