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Librarians & Publishers Celebrate Advances in Digital Media at Digipalooza '08
Hundreds of leading public librarians from 40 states and 3 countries will assemble in downtown Cleveland on July 24-27, 2008, for OverDrive's international user conference Digipalooza '08 ( www.Digipalooza.com ). The biennial event is a unique blend of education and networking, designed to inform librarians about DRM-free MP3 downloads, the...
Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Cleveland, E-books, librarian
Research articles 2008-06-24
Wiley Partners with LibreDigital to Deliver eBook, Custom Content, and Discovery Tools
HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), and LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, Inc., announced today that Wiley has selected LibreDigital's Internet Digital Warehouse solution to provide eBook, custom content, and discovery tools to Wiley customers, partners, and users. This partnership is an important...
Tags: Company, E-books, FINANCE, INTERNET, John Wiley & Sons Inc., Wiley
Research articles 2008-05-29
ebrary Signs State-Wide E-book Licensing Agreement in Wyoming
All Higher Education Institutions in Wyoming Now Have Access to a Growing Selection of E-books From Leading Publishers PALO ALTO, Calif. -- ebrary[R], a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that all eight post-secondary educational institutions in the state of Wyoming have subscribed to its Academic...
Tags: E-books, University of Wyoming, Wyoming
Research articles 2008-04-22
Season 2
Kimberly Caldwell She's the TV Guide Network's official correspondent for reality programming and co-hosts the channel's Idol Wrap and Reality Chat. She also is working on her debut album a country disc. Corey Clark Disqualified from the show...
Tags: E-books, TV Guide
Research articles 2008-03-10
Oxford Scholarship Online E-books Available on the ebrary Platform
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- ebrary[R], a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that it has partnered with Oxford University Press to make the titles found on its prestigious Oxford Scholarship Online product OSO available to libraries worldwide on the ebrary platform, which integrates multiple online resources and...
Tags: E-books, University of Oxford
Research articles 2008-03-04
Ontario Council of University Libraries / Scholars Portal Service Chooses ebrary's Platform to Locally Host over 100,000 e-books
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Please replace the release with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The corrected release reads: ONTARIO COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES / SCHOLARS PORTAL SERVICE CHOOSES EBRARY'S PLATFORM TO LOCALLY HOST OVER 100,000 E-BOOKS ebrary[R], a leading provider of e-content technology and...
Tags: E-books, Ontario, portal, University of Toronto
Research articles 2008-01-10
This Month From Knowledge@Wharton
Stories this month include "'CEO Succession: Has Grooming Talent on the Inside Gone by the Wayside?" and from India Knowledge@Wharton, "HCL Infosystems' Ajai Chowdhry: 'We See India as a Very Young Country'" Plus: Podcasts on "Getting a Read on Amazon's New Kindle" and "The Subprime Drama Continues, but for...
Tags: CEO, E-books, INTERNET, Knowledge@Wharton, MARKETING, Podcasts, Wharton School
Research articles 2007-12-03
Cambridge to Launch Ebooks Collections.
LONDON, November 30 /PRNewswire/ -- - Cambridge University Press Partners with Ebooks Corporation to Launch Institutional Ebook Library Service On the first day of the major Online Information Conference in London this week, Cambridge University Press announced that it will use ...
Tags: E-books, University of Cambridge
Research articles 2007-11-30
HarperCollins Acquires James Frey's Novel
NEW YORK -- HarperCollins today announced the acquisition of North American rights to Bright Shiny Morning, a novel by New York Times bestselling author James Frey. HarperCollins will publish the book in Summer 2008. The deal was negotiated and announced by Jonathan Burnham, Senior Vice President and Publisher of HarperCollins,...
Tags: E-books, FINANCE, HarperCollins, Investment, New York Times Co., novel
Research articles 2007-09-12
The Pneumatic Tire
The Pneumatic Tire. Edited by A.N. Gent and J.D. Walter. 700 pages. Price, $10. Rubber Division, American Chemical Society, Akron, OH (2007). This e-book is intended as a professional resource and teaching tool for tire engineers and designers. Subjects include an overview of tire technology, mechanical properties of rubber,...
Tags: American Chemical Society, E-books, PRODUCTIVITY, Quality
Research articles 2007-05-01
Turn Your iPhone into the Ultimate E-book Reader
Kindle, schmindle. The best e-book reader money can buy is the iPhone ditto the iPod touch. Don't believe me? Consider: Amazon's Kindle sells for $349 and has a grayscale screen. It's way too big to fit in a pocket. It's good only for reading. And, let's face it: It's kinda ugly. ...
Tags: Apple iPhone, eReader, E-book Reader, E-books, Personal Technology, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-07-24
The A to Z of Employee Engagement
Are your troops tired? Are your workers weary? Is burnout brewing? A new, free e-book courtesy of Slacker Manager promises to give you over 300 ideas to boost employee engagement. Some of the suggestions are on-target, while others seem like stretches designed to fit the cutesy A...
Tags: CC Holland, Employee Engagement, E-books, Personal Technology
Blog posts 2008-05-22
University of California, Riverside Libraries join LINK+.
M2 PRESSWIRE-12 September 2006-Innovative Interfaces: University of California, Riverside Libraries join LINK+C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11092006 Emeryville CA - The University of California, Riverside UCR has joined LINK+, a library consortium that provides quick access to millions of books and...
Tags: consortium, E-books, HARDWARE, INTERNET, Portals, Storage, University of California
Research articles 2006-09-12
Download E-Books Straight to Your BlackBerry with Mobipocket Reader
If you're a BlackBerry owner who likes to read, here's great news: The new version of Mobipocket Reader for BlackBerry lets you download e-books directly to your device. Or, to put it another way, it's like having a bookstore in your pocket. For those unfamiliar with it,...
Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Mobipocket Reader, E-books, Handhelds, Personal Technology, Hardware, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-03-18
Chinese book to be published first online
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-13 June 2006-Chinese book to be published first onlineC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Chinese based publisher Writers Publishing House has announced that it has, for the first time in China, published a book online prior to publishing it on paper. The e-book by Zhu Xingchen, entitled Not Angel,...
Tags: E-books, Xinhua News Agency
Research articles 2006-06-13
Read E-books on Your iPhone or iPod Touch
Steve Jobs says people don't read books anymore? I say: hogwash. Proof positive is the server-busting popularity of TextOnPhone, a new service that serves up perfectly formatted e-books on iPhone and iPod Touch screens. You can see it in action in the above video, courtesy of jkOnTheRun. As...
Tags: Digital Media, Digital Music, E-books, Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Rick Broida, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
Blog posts 2008-02-18
Closed Book: The Problem with Kindle
Amazon's new electronic book, Kindle, addresses many of the mistakes made by previous entries in this highly unsuccessful market. Better display. Low-priced titles. Built-in networking. Too bad Amazon forgot the key ingredient to technology platform success: openness. David Weinberger, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet...
Tags: Product, Amazon.com Inc., Weinberger, Benefits, E-books, Internet, Human Resources, Personal Technology, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2007-11-30
Is an "Open" Strategy Right For You?
Some critics called Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader overpriced and poorly designed, while others hailed it "the book of the future." There may be truth on both sides of the debate, but nonetheless, consumers have spoken, and their response has been highly favorable. Now there's just one thing standing in the way of...
Tags: Management, Personal Technology, Lori Deschene, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Online Communications, E-books, Strategy, Social Networking, Amazon Kindle, Amazon.com Inc., Article, Mozilla Firefox, Facebook, Salesforce.com Inc.
Blog posts 2007-11-28
States struggle with legal hurdles as they try to add more e-content.(e-Books)
While many states are trying to include electronic materials, including e-books, state laws and textbook adoption processes are hindering getting those materials into the classroom, finds the Software and Information Industry Association, which recently surveyed state officials in charge of textbook adoption. "We...
Tags: E-books, MARKETING, Software Information Industry Association
Research articles 2005-09-01
Professor offers advice to help new users get acclimated to e-books.
With states slowly moving to adopt electronic textbooks, educators need to be aware that the transition to e-books takes time and preparedness, reveals a Purdue University (Ind.) professor. "Even though more people are using electronic books for school and pleasure, understanding this new technology...
Tags: E-books, Purdue University
Research articles 2005-09-01
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