[Web4lib] [Publib] Kindle at Libraries

[Robert Balliot]

According to MediaPost.com<http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=147627>
Kindles represent 59% of e-readers shipped.  So, if Overdrive is able to
deliver as represented, this would mean 59% more potential e-reader patrons
for Libraries that have e-book collections.  Is making the most popular
e-reader compatible with 11,000 library collections a positive thing for
Libraries?  Is making the devices interactive with the books positive for
patrons?  I think it is.

It is also potentially *great* for Kindle sales, Kindle book sales, Kindle
book authors/publishers (70% royalities in
US/UK<http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/01/some-authors-still-split-on-amazons-70-royalty-offer.ars>)
 and Overdrive.

R. Balliot
http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm




On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Kirsten Corby <
KCorby at neworleanspubliclibrary.org> wrote:

> I am also disappointed that Overdrive is Amazon's partner in this venture.
>  We need more competition in library lending of e-books, not less.
>  Overdrive's technical support is atrocious, the thought of adding *another*
> format to their thicket of incompatible devices and formats give me horrors.
>
> However, if this from the LJ article --
>
>
> " ... the libraries-including schools, colleges and public libraries-will
> not have to add a new format, and the ebooks now available on the OverDrive
> sites will be immediately integrated with the Kindle, Dan Stasiewski, a
> marketing associate with OverDrive, told LJ.
>
> "There will be no additional cost to acquire new files to make them
> compatible," David Burleigh, OverDrive's director of marketing, told LJ ..."
>
>
> -- means that Amazon is modifying the Kindle to read EPUB files, that is
> great news!  Will simplify things tremendously.  EPUB incompatibility is the
> major flaw in the Kindle model.
>
> As an e-book reader myself and my library's primary help-point for
> Overdrive, I will be watching this closely.
>
>
> Kirsten M. Corby
> Head Librarian
> Periodicals & Young Adult Division
> New Orleans Public Library
> 219 Loyola Avenue
> New Orleans, LA 70112
> kcorby at neworleanspubliclibrary.org
> 504-596-2567
> www.neworleanspubliclibrary.org
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