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Libraries as (literal) eBook sellers

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Honestly, I just don’t know how I feel about this. Granted, libraries get some money and that’s a good thing, but the customers are still…

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Read the Jefferson Bible online

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Michael Sauers

In 1820 — six years before his death at the age of 83 — Jefferson produced a leather-bound, 84-page volume titled The Life and Morals…

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The Abomination of Ebooks: They Price People Out of Reading

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Michael Sauers

We need to stop thinking of and talking about ebooks as books, and more as we would an app or a software package: Ebooks are…

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Penguin disconnects the USB cable

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Today, we are delighted to announce that Penguin eBooks will be available for “Get for Kindle” in the same convenient manner as the other Kindle…

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Dear Publishers

Posted on September 24, 2013 by Michael Sauers

DRM is dumb. DRM does not work. DRM is the Empire is tightening its fist, which only forces more star systems to slip through its…

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Cory Doctorow: Libraries and E-books

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Michael Sauers

At the start of the summer, I traveled to Chicago for the annual national conference of the American Library Association. It was great. There are…

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Kindle Matchbook

Posted on September 3, 2013September 3, 2013 by Michael Sauers

You knew it was going to happen eventually. Buy the book, get the eBook for cheap or free. Looks like Amazon’s going for it in…

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A Year of Library/Consumer eBook Price Comparisons: Has Anything Changed?

Posted on August 31, 2013 by Michael Sauers

For the past year librarians with the Douglas County (CO) Libraries have been publishing a monthly price list which compared the retail price for an ebook with…

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UNL students still prefer physical textbooks

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Michael Hansen still prefers holding an actual book to reading one on his computer. He likes the feel of a book in his hand. He…

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Sony PRS-T3 to be released on September 19th

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Michael Sauers

The Sony PRS-T3 will feature a 6-inch E Ink screen with a resolution of 1024×758 pixels. Sony is really not giving a full HD experience…

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