The number of school libraries building electronic stacks is increasing in the past few years. A 2011 survey by the School Library Journal found that 31 percent had e-books in their collections. But 63 percent of those surveyed said they couldn’t afford to buy digital books. On a recent afternoon, 9-year-old Josh Hezel and his [...]
Spanish newspaper launchs an e-book publishing program
November 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is launching an e-book publishing program, entitled “E-books De Vanguardia.” La Vanguardia is Barcelona’s leading newspaper, and the third largest in Spain. La Vanguardia is starting its program with two free titles, both of which are available in EPUB, PDF and MOBI formats. Next up are two more books: ¡Adolescente en Casa! [...]
The Birds of America released as an e-book
September 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Natural History Museum in the UK has launched its first e-book for the iPad, created from the most expensive book ever sold, John James Audubon’s The Birds of America. The e-book features all 435 illustration plates of the original. The NHM will release a resized printed edition of the 19th-century classic in October, bound [...]
The Color Purple released as an e-book
September 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Author Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and still a widely taught and discussed classic, is finally coming out as an e-book. But the classic novel in e-book format is not being released by a traditional publisher. Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publishing company co-founded two years ago by former HarperCollins [...]
New horse racing e-book for Keeneland
September 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Did you know that…Keeneland racetrack in Lexington, KY held 161 thoroughbred races on 17 days in the fall of 2010. Trainers winning at least two races totaled 28. The 28 multiple winners won a total of 110 races collectively or 68% of all races. Of the 28 multiple winners, nine trainers won at least five races. Those nine trainers collected [...]
Read While You Wait e-books
September 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The online textbook vendor Chegg has launched a new “read while you wait” feature that gives its customers access to an ebook version of some books while the paper versions ship. “Read while you wait” ebook access costs $1.99 and will be valid for seven days. The short ebook pass is not available as a standalone [...]
Is Book Banning Dead?
September 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Can you still ban a book circa 2011? “In the small town of Republic, Missouri, they’ve banned Kurt Vonnegut’s classic “Slaughterhouse-Five” after a columnist included it in a group of “filthy books demeaning to Republic education.” It was stricken along with the dubious classics “Twenty Boy Summer” (I shouldn’t judge, I haven’t read them, but [...]
Thomas Nelson releases their first Enhanced e-book
September 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
Christian publishing firm Thomas Nelson announces the creation of the company’s first enhanced e-book, which released on Aug. 25. This landmark e-book by New York Times best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado features the full digital content of his most recent bestseller, Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions (Thomas Nelson, [...]
Soundtracks for e-books?
August 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
As ebook sales have skyrocketed in the past several years, publishers have searched for ways to improve on the digital editions of their books. In 2010 enhanced e-books with video and audio were all the rage, but sales for many enhanced e-books were dismal, and the books were often expensive to produce. In the movie [...]
