Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Follet E-Books
Follett is now providing ebooks directed at the school library market.
They have a nice web site http://www.aboutfollettebooks.com/
That shows videos and gives you an idea of their product offerings. Remember that Follett and BWI are the same company now so see if there is crossover potential there.
If you are moving to Kindle from Amazon Follet will not work with them due to the exclusive relationship Amazon signed with Overdrive.
They have a nice web site http://www.aboutfollettebooks.com/
That shows videos and gives you an idea of their product offerings. Remember that Follett and BWI are the same company now so see if there is crossover potential there.
If you are moving to Kindle from Amazon Follet will not work with them due to the exclusive relationship Amazon signed with Overdrive.
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Overdrive News
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Kindle-Library-Lending-Announcement-Raises-Questions-75189.asp
Great article with details.
Overdrive's blog for library users. Gives the newest features and the latest publisher and title updates
http://overdriveblogs.com/library/
Great article with details.
Overdrive's blog for library users. Gives the newest features and the latest publisher and title updates
http://overdriveblogs.com/library/
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Friday, April 29, 2011
Blio from Baker and Taylor presentation at TLA
New e-book format for computers phones and tablets. Windows version out. Apple version being vetted by Apple. Android coming soon. blip preloaded on Tmobile phones, toshiba and other computer vendors also reloading.
This is a software dependent not platform dependent. It will not work on E-Ink readers such as Sony Reader, Kindle, or Nook. Must have a back lit computer, tablet, or smart phone to work.
Represents the book as the publisher designed it.
Thumbnails of the pages are available (photo)
3d page view available to make it look more like a book
tex to speech is available, Words highlighted as the text is read. Can choose a voice, and book in spanish can be read aloud in Spanish, t]etc. It does not translate. Can be set to continuous or self paced. You an set it to a page, sentence, parapgraph stop.
Can highlight text, can add notes, bookmark, and can look up the word in a dictionary, Thesaurus, Google, bing, etc.
Publishers can embed video, quizes, voice, in other words interactive content.
Circulation of materials will occur through access 360 available to libraries in June. 200 publishers 250,000 titles - 160,000 to start.
They are pursuing ILS integration, dtat feeds into the cir module. Talking to Polaris now.
a mouse over will show title author, pub date, how many copies the library owns and how many are available.
The book vault allows the user to read the same book on multiple devices it will sync to furthest page read so that you can pick up the book between devices.
Also provides a buy now button so that a customer can have instatnt gratification and libraries can make a profit.
Can read reviews from the usual sources and from readers
Can filter by pub date, aavailable, and subject headings
This is a software dependent not platform dependent. It will not work on E-Ink readers such as Sony Reader, Kindle, or Nook. Must have a back lit computer, tablet, or smart phone to work.
Represents the book as the publisher designed it.
Thumbnails of the pages are available (photo)
3d page view available to make it look more like a book
tex to speech is available, Words highlighted as the text is read. Can choose a voice, and book in spanish can be read aloud in Spanish, t]etc. It does not translate. Can be set to continuous or self paced. You an set it to a page, sentence, parapgraph stop.
Can highlight text, can add notes, bookmark, and can look up the word in a dictionary, Thesaurus, Google, bing, etc.
Publishers can embed video, quizes, voice, in other words interactive content.
Circulation of materials will occur through access 360 available to libraries in June. 200 publishers 250,000 titles - 160,000 to start.
They are pursuing ILS integration, dtat feeds into the cir module. Talking to Polaris now.
a mouse over will show title author, pub date, how many copies the library owns and how many are available.
The book vault allows the user to read the same book on multiple devices it will sync to furthest page read so that you can pick up the book between devices.
Also provides a buy now button so that a customer can have instatnt gratification and libraries can make a profit.
Can read reviews from the usual sources and from readers
Can filter by pub date, aavailable, and subject headings
Thursday, March 3, 2011
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