Before you get too excited about the 21% who have read an ebook in the last year compared it with the 22% who reported not reading a book at all. That compares with 22% who told us they had not…
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Should Libraries Get Out of the eBook Business?
by Bobbi Newman • • 163 Comments
Or get out at least until there is a better system? I know what you are going to say, I can hear it already – “We can’t! Our patrons demand ebooks!” Except the truth is our patrons want a lot…
Random House eBook Price Hike Round Up
by Bobbi Newman • • 10 Comments
Normally I would be all fired up and writing a post of my own on this, but right now I just feel defeated. So here’s the break down. What Random House said Titles available in print as new hardcovers: $65-…
Mea Culpa on Penguin and Libraries and An Alternative to OverDrive
by Bobbi Newman • • 6 Comments
I feel I need to make a clarification on yesterday’s post title How to Talk to Your Patrons About Penguin & Other Publishers Not Loaning eBooks to Libraries - Penguin did NOT stop doing business with libraries. They stopped doing business…
How to Talk to Your Patrons About Penguin & Other Publishers Not Loaning eBooks to Libraries
by Bobbi Newman • • 14 Comments
[edited 2/11/2012] I feel I need to clarify that Penguin did not stop doing business with libraries, they stopped doing business with OverDrive, read more here. And how to get them to talk to the Publishers. I’ve had this post in my…