LJ: New Statistics Model for Book Industry Shows Trade Ebook Sales Grew Over...
A new annual survey of the total U.S. book publishing industry released today shows growing revenue and, even without numbers from 2011, exponential ebook sales. The industry sold 2.57 billion books in...
View ArticleLink: Go To Hellman: What’s a Book Worth?
“Imagine you’re an author of a book that was published a few years ago, but you’ve retained ebook rights. Someone wants to be able to give away digital copies of the book for free to an unlimited...
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Announcing The Great Library Roadshow: Seeking the Intersection of Innovation...
It’s time to mash up two of my favorite great American institutions: libraries and road trips. I am utterly excited to announce a trip that’s been in the works for a few weeks now, which we’ve...
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Follow the Great Library Roadshow
Join us as we drive from library to library, making our way from Charlotte, NC, to Philadelphia, PA (for the full background on the road trip, see “Announcing The Great Library Roadshow: Seeking the...
View ArticleOfficial Itinerary for the Great Library Roadshow
Scheduled stops on The Great Library Roadshow include: Charlotte, NC (Charlotte Mecklenburg Library) High Point, NC (High Point Public Library, and High Point University) Richmond, VA (Richmond Public...
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Essential Apps and Services for the Great Library Roadshow
Layar screenshot, as seen from the window of a cab in Brooklyn (see annotation below) I think we’ve got the overall logistics set for #libshow (though let me tell you, there are a lot of moving pieces...
View ArticleBuilding a Better Programming Widget and Job Center Stats: Great Library...
Whew! One whirlwind Great Library Roadshow day is done! After meeting at the Charlotte Airport in the morning, we headed straight to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library (CML) for our first stop in to...
View ArticleData-Driven Libraries from Charlotte to Richmond: Roadshow Travelog #2
In libraries, it’s not about the banality of “doing more with less,” but facing the reality. As I wrote about previously, Charlotte Mecklenburg has been working hard to refocus their efforts following...
View ArticleLibraries Jumping on the Augmented Reality Bandwagon
One fascinating surprise of the Roadshow: more libraries are jumping on the augmented reality bandwagon than I previously suspected. In a previous post, I mentioned Layar as one example of an app that...
View ArticleA Profile of Better E-Resource Delivery: Roadshow Travelog #3, Johns Hopkins...
Today was devoted to innovation with academic library users in mind. At our first stop this morning, we got a chance to dig in to a bit more depth on some of the back end tools used to connect users...
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