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Monday, 16th August 2010

E-Book Roundup: Legendary Author Ray Bradbury Says No to E-Book & Tells Yahoo to Go to Hell; On the Way from Sony; DRM Intro; E-Books on Campus, More

+ The Legendary Ray Bradbury Says No to E-Books, Tells Yahoo to "Go to Hell" (by Susan King, LA Times)

+ Sony 'plans two new ebook readers' (via The Telegraph)
See Also: New Sony Reader eBook Devices Coming Soon (via Sony Insider)

+ E-Readers are Dead. Long Love E-Reading! (by Harry McCracken, Technologizer.com)

+ A Very Brief Intro: Digital Rights Management (via Computeractive)

+ Digital books are changing our reading patterns (by Jeremy Wagstaff, Jakarta Post)

+ eBooks – Year Two (by Kenneth C. Green, Inside Higher Ed)
Green identifies three critical issues re: e-books in higher-ed:

1) Price

2) Features and Functions

Although they are “Digital Natives,” today’s college students came of age (and through the K-12 school system) using print. Digital textbooks are, for most, a new experience. Consequently, a critical challenge for those who promote digital texts is to assure students that electronic texts will do no harm: in other words, their grades will not suffer because they are using a new
technology.

3) Document Formats

Not all eReaders “read” all document formats – or “read” them well. Page numbers remain a problem: how to I get my students to the same page of The Odyssey, Huck Finn, the Federalist Papers or a biology or physics textbook if some have print copies and some are accessing content via various eReaders?

Perhaps the most difficult challenge involves price: the structural costs of developing college textbooks and ancillary instructional resources (web sites, exam questions, etc.) are significant, while the revenue cycle in the current business model is limited to the first “year” a new title arrives on the market. (We’ll explore textbook costs in a future post.)

+ Forget E-Books, Try Audiobooks (by James Crott, Stuff)

Ignore the recent hype about e-books, Kindles and Kobos. Anyone with mild technological abilities can get into electronic books - and thousands have - without buying expensive new devices.

Audiobooks are for booklovers who sometimes enjoy listening to books - while driving, gardening, exercising or doing their chores.

A mention of the availability of e-books at the Christchurch, New Zealand City Libraries is also included in the article. The Christchurch service is powered by OverDrive.

and finally, yet another article about e-books in Canada. Wow!
E-Book Access from Public Libraries in Canada (via Canada.com)

See Also: More Positive Press for e-Books & Audiobooks at British Columbia Public Libraries

See Also: eBook Usage and Kindles at Vancouver Public

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