A little more than three years ago, we posted a 4cast about speculation that ebook sales were ready to start into a decline. Current sales…
OPLIN 4cast #542: Ebooks vs print books
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A little more than three years ago, we posted a 4cast about speculation that ebook sales were ready to start into a decline. Current sales…
There are conflicting signals coming of out colleges lately in regard to digital textbooks. Are they the wave of the future or are print textbooks…
After we wrote a post about the woes of the e-reader industry a couple of weeks ago, we saw an article in the British press…
At the end of 2010, the 4cast took a look at open access to scholarly information. While news on this topic may not be as frequent…
We know ebooks are very popular right now, and it’s also proving to be pretty easy for authors to self-publish in ebook format (and even sometimes encouraged).…
One of the nifty things about ebooks is their ability to transcend plain text. Illustrations and graphic design have always been recognized as an important…
Almost everybody would agree that 2011 was the year of the ebook, when they captured about 20% of all fiction sales. Almost everybody in the…
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Occasionally, the topic of ebook piracy generates some press, though not as often as you might expect. Last spring, for example, there was a flurry…
In the middle of last week’s excitement about public library books for the Kindle, the Aptara Corporation released their Third Annual eBook Survey of Publishers (40-page…
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While the 4cast usually focuses on tech news, our stated interest is “headlines, topics and trends impacting public libraries” (see our masthead). Certainly one inescapable…