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"Pan Macmillan ebooks are now available for reading on the iPhone. In partnership with Lexcycle Stanza, the popular reading application, you can now read on the move. To read an ebook on the iPhone purchase and download the book from this page (scroll down for Pan Macmillan books available on the iPhone), and follow the instructions below."

"Today, VitalSourceTM works with many of the largest and best known publishers in the world (as well as with some of the largest and best known computer manufacturers in the world) to establish successful digital curriculum implementations. These implementations can currently be found in K-12, Higher Ed, and Professional Education in countries around the globe."

Ebooks for business/ technology

A recent study by Jason Price and John McDonald of Claremont Colleges investigates whether a research library could pursue "paperless acquisition" for newly published books. Price and McDonald compared purchases of print books made by 5 research libraries in 2006 and 2007 to the catalogs 4 of major aggregators of ebooks for libraries (EBrary, NetLibrary, EBookLibrary, and MyILibrary). They found that around 70% of the libraries' print acquisitions are not available through the leading ebook aggregators. According to their preliminary analysis, there is a mismatch between the content that some publishers (such as Routledge and Oxford UP) make available through ebook aggregators and what libraries purchase; also, some university presses do not yet appear to be making their publications available as ebooks. In some disciplines (art, music, romance literatures), over 80% of library purchases are not available electronically, while in other disciplines (economics) only 53% are not available as ebooks.

This is a page of links to statements and documents issued from the IOCLC regarding electronic information. These statements span 1998 - present, and present a chronology of the evolution of issues surrounding electronic resources.

Argues that scholars must shape development of tools. On Stanford Library plan: "The Stanford faculty recommendations are telling for several reasons, which is why I've bothered to begin my discussion there (or, here, as I enjoy the hospitality of the Stanford Humanities Center as a digital humanities fellow). The faculty committee has made a series of highly reasonable and well-argued proposals. Guiding them is a belief, correct in my opinion and that of most humanists, that books aren't going away, we need them and shall continue to do so for a long time to come, and we cannot pit digital tools against book culture. We must accept the hybrid world of scholarly work and earnestly endeavor to support it."

MIT is going to start publishing faculty papers in their own online repository, bypassing commercial publishers altogether.

"Five-Year Information Format Trends, released in early 2003, provides a snapshot look at how trends and innovation in information formats (e.g. Web pages, electronic books, MP3 audio) are creating new challenges and opportunities for librarians, who must integrate these with existing formats and build new information management processes all while balancing resource allocation."

Princeton is partnering with Amazon.com, Inc. to pilot the use of an e-reader in a small number of classes during the Fall term of 2009. The project is sponsored by the Princeton University Library, the Office of Information Technology at Princeton, and the High Meadows Foundation, whose mission is "to support environmental sustainability; and to support a community of human interest through collaboration, inclusiveness and common values." A major aim of the pilot is to help determine if e-readers can cut down on the use of paper at Princeton, without adversely affecting the classroom experience.

The Justice department has opened up an inquiry into the antitrust implications of Google's settlement.