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PW PicksPW Picks: The Best New Books for the Week of May 7, 2012
This week, novels from Toni Morrison and Cassandra Clare, urban histories from David Talbot and cartoonist Harvey Pekar, a thriller from Larry Bond, Augusten Burroughs solves your problems, and more.
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Content / e-books
At West Coast Meeting, Digital Public Library of America Begins to Take Shape
On April 27, DPLA West brought together over 400 librarians, and others, at the Internet Archive to discuss the progress of the most visible effort yet to forge a common digital library for both Americans and the world: the nascent Digital Public Library of America.
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Content / e-books
ALA Executive Board Moves to Intensify E-Book Efforts
At the ALA Executive Board spring meeting, held April 21–22, board members voted to intensify and expand e-book advocacy efforts.
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The Tools of Change Perspective
Booksellers: What Business Are You In?: The TOC Perspective
If you’re a bricks-and-mortar bookseller, does your blood pressure rise when you think about e-retailers and their deep discounts? Do you look at e-books as a threat or an opportunity? Depending on how you answered those questions, you might need to ask yourself another one: what business are you really in?
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Copyright
In Amicus Brief, Library Groups Assail Authors Guild Bid to Shutter HathiTrust
According to an amicus brief prepared on behalf of three major library organizations, the motion for partial summary judgment filed in February by the Authors Guild in its lawsuit against the HathiTrust reflects a deeply flawed, distorted view of libraries’ rights.
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Publisher News
The Broad Strokes of the Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S Price-Fixing Settlement
Three publishers, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster have reached a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books. PW takes an initial look at the broad strokes of the deal, and what it means for the settling publishers.
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Publisher News
State Library of Kansas to Partner with Bilbary to Enable E-Book Purchases
The state library of Kansas this week said that it will partner with upstart e-bookseller Bilbary to facilitate patrons wishing to buy e-books.
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Retailing
Baker & Taylor Partners with Findaway World for Audio Content
Baker & Taylor this week announced a plan to work with Findaway World, creators of Playaway, Playaway View, and Catalist Digital, to launch a digital audiobook platform for public libraries and retailers later this year.
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Content / e-books
E-book Consumers Read More Books Says Pew Report
Results show that e-book consumers are reading roughly a third more books than print-only customers, with the average reader of e-books consuming 24 books in the past 12 months, compared with an average of 15 books by print consumers.
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Content / e-books
'PW 'Talks to Ann Arbor District Library’s Josie Parker and Eli Neiburger
PW contributing editor Peter Brantley talks to Josie Parker, director of the Ann Arbor District Library, and Eli Neiburger, associate director for IT and Production about their innovative, analytical, and provocative approach to e-books and next generation library service.
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Content / e-books
Robert Darnton Promises Digital Public Library by 2013
Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton vowed the Digital Public Library of America, a nonprofit effort to digitize and offer free access to millions of books, would launch by April of 2013.
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Cory Doctorow
A Whip to Beat Us With
Apple makes some pretty cool products. If you’ve spent any time stuck in the Microsoft Office world, Apple’s office products—Keynote, Pages, and Numbers—are a revelation. The best part is you can open MS Office files with Apple’s products, and save them into Apple’s format, or many others.
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Shows & Events
Video from AAP Annual Meeting 2012
Catch up on this year's Association of American Publishers meetings with these videos.
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Industry News
OverDrive Postpones Pottermore E-Books for Libraries
OverDrive officials this week said that they have “temporarily suspended” pre-sales and displays of Harry Potter eBooks and digital audiobooks for library lending.
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Nancy Pearl
Check it Out with Nancy Pearl: Finding that Next Good Book
At the Public Library Association meeting, concluded last week in Philadelphia, Nancy Pearl was doing what she does best—talking about great books and how to connect them with readers. On that score, and based on one of her talks at PLA (and at a recent TED talk) we asked Nancy to share her ideas about putting books and readers together.
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Content / e-books
At Busy PLA, ALA President Molly Raphael Talks E-Books
It's been an upbeat Public Library Association 2012 meeting in Philadelphia so far, with strong attendance, and a slate of great authors, speakers, and programs. But the issue of e-book lending has loomed large over the meeting, and PW caught up with ALA president Molly Raphael to get her take on the ongoing issue of library e-books.
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Content / e-books
ALA Asks Random to Scale Back Price Hikes
The American Library Association (ALA) has issued a statement urging Random House to reconsider its recent price hike on e-books for the library market.
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Copyright
I-School Confidential: ‘PW’ talks with future librarians
Earlier this month, I took advantage of a gracious offer from PW contributing editor Nancy Pearl and traveled to Seattle, to meet 11 of Nancy’s students in the Information School at the University of Washington. I wanted to see who is choosing to go into the profession, and why. What are their thoughts on the way the information world—and the publishing industry—is developing?
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Content / e-books
Drag; Drop; Read: Apple's New iBooks Author Format
In early January, Apple released iBooks Author, a groundbreaking drag-and-drop e-book authoring environment that promises to democratize the production of complex, structured books, notably including textbooks. But iBooks Author could also presage something else: the eclipse of open e-book standards.
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Copyright
Copyright at a Crossroads: William Patry
If there was any question that copyright law in the digital age is reaching a critical point, a coalition of Web sites on January 18 offered a stark reminder. In the largest online protest in Internet history, some 7,000 popular sites went dark or otherwise altered their sites, successfully protesting two controversial copyright proposals introduced in Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) the PROTECT IP Act, also known as PIPA.
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