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The Language of the Deal
Do libraries own or simply license their ebooks? Ever since the HarperCollins/Overdrive situation, that question has had new urgency. A dispute between ebook aggregator Overdrive and the Kansas Digital...
View ArticleLibraries and the Future of Electronic Content Delivery – an article in...
Lisa Carlucci Thomas recently interviewed Michael Porter about electronic content access, libraries, and Library Renewal. Here’s a snippet of the article (get the whole article here): “Libraries are...
View ArticleLibrary Renewal Q & A: Round 1
Library Renewal is here because we want to help create library- and library user-centric solutions for electronic content access. We’re talking principally about things like e-books, audio books,...
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Ereader Boom II: Is your library ready?
Yesterday, I spoke about Library Renewal at the annual meeting of the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services in Lansing, Michigan. It was a great event, and I enjoyed discussing the organization,...
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If Streaming isn’t Copying, can Libraries be Netflix?
You may have seen the news last week that the lawsuit filed against UCLA by Ambrose Video Publishing and the Association for Information Media and Equipment (essentially the RIAA for classroom...
View ArticleEbooks and the Real Question:
If you have walked patrons through the requisite processes to use library ebooks, you likely dread it: the ereader reference interview. In this post, part of my series on solutions to current problems...
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Helping Staff Help Themselves: Ereaders and Training
A major point of stress in dealing with ereaders is staff training. In this post I will highlight some approaches to getting staff up to speed. Tiered troubleshooting: An email interview with Cari...
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This Deal Is Getting Worse All the Time
A second major publisher has altered the deal by which libraries can lend ebooks via libraryland über-vendor Overdrive. In February, the first publisher, Harper Collins, restricted the number of...
View ArticleA Question about the Classics
Recently, Overdrive ran a promotion called the Duke Classics Giveaway, by which libraries that spent more than $3,500 on digital content received access to Overdrive’s Duke Classics Max Access...
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Struggling to Satisfy Demand
the reality of the public library ebook marketplace reflected in usage data from a selection of public libraries Matt Weaver, Board member, Library Renewal March...
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