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In end-year figures for 2011, ebook platform Overdrive has reported triple-digit growth for 2011 'in ebook discovery and online reader visits at libraries and schools' worldwide. Revealing the st...
Library services provider CAVAL has announced it has acquired Languages Direct. CAVAL acquired the specialist language library supply business from DA Information Services and said 'all Language...
The Culture, Media and Sport select committee, a cross-party committee in the UK parliament, will hold an inquiry into recent library closures in the UK next year. The committee is currently inviting ...
Penguin US has confirmed that its latest titles will not be available for library lending in ebook editions via OverDrive due to 'security concerns', centred on OverDrive's recent hook-up with Amazon...
The Western Australian Group of University Librarians (WAGUL) has announced that it has selected Ingram Content Group as its sole library content supplier. The move, which will allow the consortium to...
Australia's Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Educational Lending Rights (ELR) schemes face 'probably the greatest challenge since their inception' in the form of ebooks, according to the PLR committee'...
Library supplier ALS has launched the ePlatform ebook lending service in Australia. Launched locally at the SWITCH public libraries conference in late November, ePlatform offers local content fro...
Amazon has launched a lending library of Kindle ebook titles, available only to members of its 'Prime' loyalty scheme in the US.
Amazon has partnered with Overdrive to offer patrons of 11,000 US public libraries the ability to borrow ebooks via Kindle.
A copyright decision by a US court in a case about a student re-selling imported editions of textbooks may have wide-ranging effects on the 'first-sale doctrine' that could affect libraries and second...