From the monthly archives: December 2011
New figures from Amazon’s Lending Library; digital collections in Oregon and Delaware; patent searching tool from IBM; holiday Kindle sales; and an annual GPO report on library services.
Amazon’s Lending Library Now Holds Over 66,000 Ebooks
Starting with only 5000 titles in November, Amazon’s lending library “has grown exponentially… since then, with Read More... →
This week’s profile comes from an interview of Alison that will appear in the next issue of Against the Grain.
Name: Alison Mudditt
Title: Director
Organization: University of California Press
Address: 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, CA 94704-1012
Phone: 510-642-4247
Fax: 510-643-7127
email: alison.mudditt@ucpress.edu
website: www.ucpress.edu
Born and lived: Born Exeter, UK. Lived [...]
Read More... →Today’s news: rare book sales from Abe Books; recommendations from the IFLA – ISBD Review Group; a small publisher and Amazon; UK readers and digital news sources; and the Science archive now available in Russia.
Abe Books Made $220K from 10 Rare Books
“Book dealer AbeBooks brought in $220,330 from the sales of [...]
Read More... →What’s Coming In 2012: Book Publishing
Gazing into her crystal ball, Laura Hazard Owen makes some predictions for the coming year in this post from paidContent.org.
As Amazon deepens it commitment to publishing its own titles, Laura says it will need to deal with its “bookstore distribution problem.” She predicts Amazon will strike [...]
Read More... →HarperCollins sues digital publisher Open Road; SWETS adds more titles to their E-Journal Gateway; Wolters Kluwer/Springer deal completed; quality is ebook goal in 2012; and a new Dean of University libraries at Texas A&M University.
Updated: HarperCollins Sues Open Road Over E-Book Rights
“HarperCollins is suing digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media for [...]
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