Electronic school materials, interactive content available for use on iPads, could save thousands of dollars for schools and students. I agree the cost-savings is beneficial, but what about the other side of that coin? Authors of grade ten geology textbooks usually aren’t rockstar-rich. Are educational publishing houses truly making enormous profits at $73 per textbook?…
Here’s an interesting thread of stories regarding Penguin’s dance around the availability of eBooks for libraries. Are they in? Are they out? New ones? Old ones? Following yesterday’s news that Penguin, citing security concerns, is pulling its new e-books from libraries—and making none of them available for library lending through Kindle—many are wondering why the…
“Back when you owned your own collection, you didn’t risk losing it because you had a billing dispute with the Book-of-the-Month Club, nor could a library fine threaten your family photos. Such scenarios are becoming possible as cloud services become more consolidated. Apple’s iCloud will look after e-mail, books, music, photos you take, and documents…
Seriously, which do you think will sell more books: making libraries re-purchase each e-book after 26 reads, or giving away full copies of book 1 in the series? I know which I think will be successful. Harper Collins wants to kill library e-books. I signed the petition –take a look and you will probably add your…