The Cambridge University Library has begun offering digitized versions of Isaac Newton’s scientific works online. Anyone can now view over 4,000 pages of Newton material at the Cambridge Digital Library website. [Read more…]
Publishers’ business model for lending ebooks at libraries
Amazon has just created the business model that book publishers should use with libraries for lending their ebooks.
Amazon has completely changed the ebook lending game with their KDP Select program that they launched yesterday. The plan is to put all their Kindle Direct Publishing ebooks into their Kindle Owners’ Lending Library and then pay authors based on the number of times their ebook was borrowed. Only it won’t be a fixed per use fee. [Read more…]
Amazon adds direct publishers to Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
Amazon today launched a new program called KDP Select that will allow authors that self publish their ebooks through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) program to participate in the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library that launched last month. [Read more…]
Connecticut college library offers therapy dogs for stressed students
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is doing something a little different than other Connecticut colleges to help its students prepare for final exams. The Homer D. Babbidge Library at UConn is offering dogs to students through a program called Paws to Relax. [Read more…]
Library of Congress will archive all Twitter tweets
Last year, the Library of Congress announced a deal with Twitter where the library would archive all the public tweets ever sent.
Yesterday we got a glimpse into what that means through an interview on Federal News Radio with Bill Lefurgy from the Library of Congress. [Read more…]
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