Written by Timothy J. Dickey on July 5, 2011 – 8:20 AM
See the Pope himself sending out his first personal tweet; it seems he had 30,000 new followers within 24 hours…
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20075473-10391715.html
Written by Timothy J. Dickey on June 20, 2011 – 9:45 AM
More news on the e-book front:
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/perpetualbeta/british-library-and-google-make-250000-books-available-all
Google will allow a quarter of a million out-of copyright books from the vast collections of the BL freely available on the web. (“Freely,” of course, still meaning that we don’t pay except in search data, and the BL doesn’t pay, except in giving the texts to Google…)
Written by Timothy J. Dickey on June 2, 2011 – 5:04 PM
It has been very good news for libraries that Amazon has agreed to allow checkouts of e-books on the Kindle at public libraries. At the same time, we should consider the overall practice of this company and how it could impact the book industry over the long term. The author here compares the possibly predatory [...]