Why the Public Library Beats Amazon—for Now As E-Book Subscription Services Grow Their Catalogs, the Age-Old Institution Trumps All By Geoffrey A. Fowler Updated Aug. 12, 2014 1:46 p.m. ET Amazon, Scribd and Oyster now sell all-you-can-eat ebook subscriptions. But Personal Tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler found a free alternative with a much better digital […]
With quotes from some local Northern New York trustees, library directors and patrons, this is a must-read! Digital demand at libraries – AdirondackDailyEnterprise.com.
There’s a project that has been quietly building over the past 3 and a half years. It’s called Open Library, and you can find it at http://openlibrary.org. Anyone interested in books and reading should pay attention to this. There are small and large implications for libraries. One of the small ones is that you can provide […]
Ebook readers are pretty hot right now. There’s the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader, the Barnes and Noble Nook, and soon the Apple iPad. I was “regifted” a Kindle this Christmas. It’s the original version, so it doesn’t read aloud and it’s smaller than the new one, among other things. I enjoyed downloading my first […]
The Scene: You’ve loaded everything and everyone into the Family Truckster, sung all the songs and played all of the word games, and now Trip Ennui has set in big time. Just when a chorus from the back seat of “are we there yet,” “she’s looking at me” or “his feet are on my side” […]
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