Issue 94: Controlled Digital Lending
E-books are a prominent theme looking back at a couple of year-end issues of DLTJ Thursday Threads. In 2010, a writer in Boston Review wondered about “books...
ebooks
Issue 83: Author’s CDL Thoughts, WWE’s Monopsony, Child’s Library Book
Greetings from the wintery mix that is central Ohio. The local school district called off school yesterday afternoon in preparation for what came today. Al...
Issue 82: Personal Digital Library, Video Preservation, Selling Prayers, and Library Ebook Legislation
The People Have Spoken On a whim, last Thursday I put out a poll with the announcement of last week’s issu...
Emerging Tech: Bluetooth Beacons and the DPLA
This is the text of a talk that I gave at the NN/LM Greater Midwest Region tech talk on January 29, 2016. It has been lightly edited and annotated with link...
The Hourglass of a National E-Book Program
This weekend I was at the second "DPLAfest" for the Digital Public Library of America. For a while I was in the national e-book program track. Participants...
Thursday Threads: Google Maps is Good, DRM is Bad, and Two-factor Authentication can be Ugly
[caption width="360" align="alignright"] Looking at maps, Eastern Carolina University Digital Collections.[/caption] Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p>...
ALA Virtual Conference Includes Talk on Open Source in Libraries
ALA has its "Virtual Conference" coming up on July 18th and 19th. It is two days of at-your-desktop talks on some of the most interesting topics in librarie...
Thursday Threads: Research Works Act, Amazon Kindle Give and Take, OCLC’s Website for Small Libraries
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> I've been away from DLTJ Thursday Thr...
Thursday Threads: Looking Backwards and Looking Forwards
As the last DLTJ Thursday Threads of the year, the stories in this post look back to what we saw in 2011 and look forward to what we may see in 2012. Lookin...
Thursday Threads: Consumer E-book Commitment, University Press Shorts, Improv Everwhere
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Two serious threads this week and one...
Thursday Threads: Structured Data on the Web, Ebook Indexes, Amazon Disintermediates Publishers
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner DLTJ Thursday Threads for two weeks in a row! I'm getting back in the ...
Thursday Threads: Beyond MARC, Library-controlled DRM, Spam Study
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Threads this week without commentary....
Retro Thursday Threads: Ideas for Publishers, New Reading Experiences, Internet Operating System
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner I recently started reading content from a tablet device and in doing so...
Thursday Threads: Digital Legacies, Zettabytes of Information, Digital Books, Alternate Network Architectures
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Mind-expanding topics this week. The...
Thursday Threads: Kindle Library Lending, Ebooks #1 in Sales, Recommendation Engines
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> I tried to stay away from ebooks again, in this...
Thursday Threads: HarperCollins (again), Digital Public Library of America, Kindle Millionaires
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Last week's DLTJ Thursday Threads theme of eboo...
Thursday Threads: HarperCollins Ebook Terms, Internet Archive Ebook Sharing, Future of Collections
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My O’Reilly Wish List
O'Reilly Media -- my favorite technology publisher -- is offering a contest in which they are giving away $500 worth of books from their catalog. To enter, ...
Thursday Threads: Kindle Singles and Kindle Accessibility, Sped-up Discourse, ISBN Troubles
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner This week Amazon takes center stage of DLTJ Thursday Threads with a re...
Thursday Threads: Ebooks in Libraries, Prognostications for the Year, Open Source Adoption, Public Domain Day
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> The turn of the year brings commentar...
Thursday Threads: Open Publishing Alternatives, Open Bibliographic Data, Earn an MBA in Facebook, Unconference Planning
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Thursday Threads: Refining Data, Ebook Costs, Open Bibliographic Data, Copyright Infringement
UPDATE - 22 November 2010: The saga of Illadore (Monica Gaudio) and Cooks Source Magazine (Judith Griggs) draws to an end, with the closing of Cooks Source M...
The Role of the Library in the Future of Reading
A popular topic coming across my radar screen is the future of reading, and more specifically the role of libraries in the future of reading. Much of commen...
A Glimpse into the Internet Archive’s Scanning and Print-on-Demand Operations
Wired magazine published a brief story and online photo gallery of the book scanning and print-on-demand projects at the Internet Archive. It is a fascinati...
New Blog for Ebooks in Libraries: “No Shelf Required”
Sue Polanka, head of reference and instruction at the main library of Wright State University, sent a message to the OhioLINK membership today about a new bl...