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October 25, 2015

Should libraries get into the e-reader hardware business in time?

I’m rooting for Good E-Reader to succeed with the proposed Ultimate...

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Corilee Christou is LibraryCity’s new library and publisher relations director emeritus November 9, 2016
Props! Novelist Philip Roth and the Newark Public Library bring his books ‘home’ October 30, 2016
Bill Gates: A billionaire book critic who apparently shuns e-books January 5, 2016
E-books, e-reading help child literacy: Major study from UK National Literacy Trust December 9, 2015
Mark Zuckerberg’s $45B pledge: Why libraries deserve their share—and what they could do with it December 3, 2015
Seattle’s iPad-loving librarian vs. books October 28, 2015
Should libraries get into the e-reader hardware business in time? October 25, 2015
Q. for the next Librarian of Congress: What to do about the Internet Archive? Google Books’ scanning project? Appoint Archive’s Brewster Kahle as librarian? September 13, 2015
Live in a certain Iranian city? Minor criminal? Buy and read five book to stay out of jail September 12, 2015
Yes, Authors Guild, writers are screwed—here’s what to do about it September 11, 2015
Why can’t the media understand the digital divide—especially the Associated Press? September 2, 2015
In Warren Buffett’s own backyard: Underfunded Omaha libraries. National digital library endowment, anyone? July 2, 2015
‘Must’ for next librarian of Congress: A love of reading—including the e-book variety June 19, 2015
‘A Beautiful Mind,’ e-books and the Five Laws of Library Science: RIP, John Forbes Nash, Jr. May 24, 2015
National digital library endowment plan featured in Education Week May 12, 2015
Cell phone book clubs: What they’re like and what they can do for K-12 kids, their parents and others May 4, 2015
How the DPLA could turn itself into a real ‘public’ library system—and encourage billionaires to pay for it and an academic system April 30, 2015
$1.25-million pledge from novelist James Patterson for school libraries: Here’s what else he can do March 13, 2015
The wealth gap: A tale of two school libraries March 10, 2015
Beyond library walls: Free e-books for Beijing subway passengers March 6, 2015
PTA President Otha Thornton wimps out on Kindle read-aloud issue, in reply to my Baltimore Sun op-ed March 3, 2015
National PTA asking Amazon about E Ink Kindles’ missing ‘read-aloud’; related Baltimore Sun op-ed now online February 26, 2015
Book review: ‘Bexar BiblioTech: The Evolution of the Country’s First All-digital Public Library’ February 13, 2015
Seven ways to grow the e-book business while helping libraries and readers: Ideas based on my two decades of writing about it February 8, 2015
Cheap blind-friendly E Ink Kindles with read-aloud and audio nav capabilities: A how-to for Amazon February 4, 2015
No Paperwhite read-aloud for you! FCC again lets Amazon and friends diss people with disabilities January 28, 2015
The K-12 and economic cases for a national digital library endowment January 11, 2015
Want read-aloud in Kindles and other readers? Use the FCC’s easy online form by Jan. 9 January 3, 2015
Is your city miserly toward library books? Go for a surtax or a special book fund December 23, 2014
Overpaid $266.5K city manager vs. library books December 10, 2014

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