Campaigners offered space in Kensal Rise library building

The Friends of Kensal Rise Library look set to be running a community library on the ground floor... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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SCL to propose library ebook licensing

The Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) is to have meetings with individual publishers over e-... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New Reports Chart the Rise of E-books

Two new reports released in the past 10 days document the ebook market’s rapid growth in the U.S. and the U.K., and suggest that a significant global spike is close at hand. Among the major takeaways from the “Bowker Market Research Global eBook Monitor” or GeM, study, ebooks are beginning to... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pew Report: E-reading on the rise

About a fifth of American adults have read an ebook in the past year, a figure likely helped along by the recent holiday surge in the sale of tablet and e-reader devices, according to a report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Continue reading at Baltimore Sun

[ Baltimore Sun | 2012-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Judgement on Surrey Libraries due today

Judgement in the High Court judicial review into Surrey county's council's plans to hand... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Surrey residents win library challenge

Surrey residents have won their High Court judicial review challenge against council plans to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Lonely Planet offers ebook "experience" guides

Lonely Planet is launching two new ebook series, one offering guidance to the enjoyable... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Offers Publishers a Way to Monetize Content With Surveys

Google has announced a new way for online news publishers to gate access to their premium content, by requiring would-be readers to fill in a survey first. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Earnings, Margins Rise at Random

Although worldwide sales at Random House fell 4.3% in 2011, the company posted its highest earnings and operating margins in at least five years. EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) rose 6.9%, to 185 million euros, with an operating margin of 10.6%, a full percentage point higher than... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Aquafadas: Easy to Build Interactive Apps

Aquafadas, a French digital publishing company, has launched a platform that allows publishers to build multimedia apps for children’s books, comics, magazines, and newspapers. Using Aquafadas’s Ave AppFactory desktop application and Adobe InDesign, publishers can produce apps that offer a... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones launches Easter half-price offer

Waterstones launched a new Buy One Get One Half Price (BOGOHP) promotional offer on selected... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Radio campaign for Marco Polo guides

Marco Polo travel guides, newly launched into the UK market, will be backed with a summer radio... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marvel Offers Digital Extras for Comic Book Fans

Next month, Marvel Comics will release a new application to add content enhanced with augmented reality to some of its comic books. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2012-03-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Coates blasts UK library service as Bilbary launches in the US

Tim Coates, founder of online e-lending service Bilbary, has pledged to raise money to donate to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Campaigners welcome Vaizey's reach-out to CILIP

Library campaigners have welcomed MP Ed Vaizey’s offer to speak with the Chartered... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones to grow children's range and space

Waterstones is set to grow its children’s range and space in stores over the summer... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Group Commerce Adds CBS to Its Offer Roster

Group Commerce, the year-old start-up that operates "white label" e-commerce services for big media companies, has another notch in its belt. The New York-based company is now powering offers for 29 CBS radio stations, bringing its roster total to 15 clients, including the New York Times and... Continue reading at AllThingsD

[ AllThingsD | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Random House drastically raises the price of ebooks for libraries

Oddly, Random House deciding to triple the price of its ebooks for libraries is being considered a compromise. While others, like Penguin, are pulling their electronic tomes from the virtual shelves of our lending institutions, Random House is at least willing to still play ball -- even if it's... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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French booksellers cautiously optimistic over VAT rise

French booksellers are cautiously optimistic that their margins will not be squeezed when VAT on... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Parade Launches App To Enhance Content Offerings

After months of planning, PARADE Magazine is rolling out a mobile app to cultivate advertisers and enhance the content offerings to its existing reader base. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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