Australia, India, the U.K. and the U.S. lead the world in e-book adoption rates, according to Bowker Market Research’s Global eBook Monitor, released on March 27. In each of those countries, more than 20 percent of respondents report purchasing e-books in the six months before the survey, and about a third of respondents in the [...]
Librarians Reach Out to Publishers at AAP Conference
March 14, 2012 By 1 Comment
Digital Public Library of America: Pro and Con
October 13, 2011 By 2 Comments
They are miles apart in their thinking about digital books, but the Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) president, Tom Allen, and Harvard University library director Robert Darnton came face to face to discuss the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) on October 11. The occasion was a forum organized by Maurice J. Freedman, publisher of The Unabashed Librarian, and hosted by James Neal, University Librarian at Columbia. Also on hand was the University of California, Berkeley’s Pamela Samuelson, an expert on copyright law.
LJ: New Statistics Model for Book Industry Shows Trade Ebook Sales Grew Over 1,000 Percent
August 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
