The Wired Campus – “The new feature involves a service by a company called OverDrive Inc., which distributes electronic books to about 9,000 libraries, about 100 of which are academic libraries.Now libraries that use the OverDrive service will give patrons the option of downloading the e-books to their Sony Readers. A few weeks after a user checks out a book, the loan period ends, and the e-books are removed from the user’s collection.”
Cory Doctorow – “I don’t think we can stop others from copying – it’s a lost cause. Copying is actually wonderful, and I have copied my head off since I first snuck into the photocopy room at my dad’s office in 1980. My problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity, and free ebooks generate more sales than they displace.”
BBC – “The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format. Sony said it would have its store converted to the format by the end of 2009. Most Sony Readers can already handle books in the ePub format.”
CNET – “After enduring a couple of rumors and leaks that took the lid off its latest e-readers a little earlier than it would have liked, Sony’s officially announced the two new models: the Reader Pocket Edition ($199) and Reader Touch Edition ($299), both of which will hit stores at the end of the month. The other big news is Sony is going to match Amazon’s e-book pricing, making new releases and best seller titles $9.99 instead of $11.99.”
Sony Electronics Blog – "You said you wanted more books and we heard you. Our free public domain content offering from Google has now surpassed the 1 million title mark." (via)
Read/Write/Web – “According to a new report from Cambridge University (PDF), students aren’t interested in being able to read eBooks and eJournals on their mobile phones. Instead, users are far more interested in opening hours, location maps, contact info, and access to the library catalog. Most respondents were also far more interested in getting alerts by text message than being able to use library resources over the mobile web.”
Internet News – “Internet Archive has a new reader interface for its books”
The Guardian – “The clear message from this week's London Book Fair was that UK publishing and retailing are finally ready to embrace the ebook. But don't dump your bookshelves yet. Before the ebook can really challenge its paper equivalent, the industry has to avert a format war a whole lot more complicated than VHS v Betamax.”
NLJ – “Law professors and publishing executives plan to meet later this month in Seattle to discuss how legal casebooks could be made available electronically on a widespread basis, particularly on new handheld devices such as Kindle and Sony Reader Digital Book.”
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