Speaking of e-books and things of that nature, I thought the following might be of interest:
"Bits Of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business", by Bernard Lunn.
"'Bits of destruction'is a phrase Fred Wilson uses to describe the destructive part of 'creative destruction' brought on by digitization.We hear a lot about the destruction wrought on the newspaper business. A more interesting and nuanced wave is now hitting the book publishing business."
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bits_of_destruction_hit_book_publishing_part1.php
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bits_of_destruction_hit_book_publishing_part2.php
Bernie Sloan
--- On Tue, 7/21/09, Karen Coyle <lists_at_KCOYLE.NET> wrote:
From: Karen Coyle <lists_at_KCOYLE.NET>
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Barnes And Noble Plans An Extensive E-Bookstore
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 5:24 PM
B&N used to carry e-books, but dropped them entirely in 2003. So this is really an "oops!" on their part.
see: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2003/09/09/death-to-ebooks.aspx
kc
McKiernan, Gerard [LIB] wrote:
> Colleagues/
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>
> One Small Step For B&N, One Giant Leap For Mobile e-Books !!! [:-)
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>
> /Gerry
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>
> NYTimes / Internet / July 21, 2009 / Chain Plans An Extensive
> E-Bookstore / By MOTOKO RICH
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>
> [snip]
>
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> In an announcement on Monday, Barnes & Noble said that it would offer
> more than 700,000 books that could be read on a wide range of devices,
> including Apple's iPhone, the BlackBerry and various laptop or desktop
> computers. [snip]
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>
> More than 500,000 of the books now offered electronically on BN.com can
> be downloaded free, through an agreement with Google to provide
> electronic versions of public domain books that Google has scanned from
> university libraries. [snip]
>
>
> Barnes & Noble is promoting its e-bookstore as the world's largest, an
> implicit stab at Amazon.com, which offers about 330,000 for its Kindle
> device. Currently, Google's public domain books cannot be read on a
> Kindle.
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> [more]
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>
> Link to full article available at
>
> [ http://tinyurl.com/nck92n ]
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>
> /Gerry
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>
> Gerry McKiernan
>
> Associate Professor
>
> Science and Technology Librarian
>
> Iowa State University Library
>
> Ames IA 50011
>
>
> gerrymck_at_iastate.edu
>
> There Are No Answers, Only Solutions / Olde Irish Saying
>
>
> The Future Is Already Here, It's Just Not Evenly Distributed /
>
> Attributed To William Gibson, SciFi Author / Coined 'Cyberspace'
>
>
>
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