[Web4lib] Kindle at Libraries

[Marc Davis]

I'm going to opt for the glass being half-full.  I think this is a significant move forward from where we are now.

Let's get the e-publishers competing for the library patron market.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael May" <mmay at dubuque.lib.ia.us>
To: "Robert Balliot" <rballiot at gmail.com>, "Publib" <publib at webjunction.org>, web4lib at webjunction.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:06:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Kindle at Libraries

It sounds like they want to sell AZW format to libraries rather than enable Kindles to read EPUB. Since DRM prevents file conversion, this kind of sucks for us, eh?

Michael May
Adult Services Librarian
Carnegie-Stout Public Library
360 West 11th Street
Dubuque, IA 52001-4697, USA
Phone: 563-589-4225 ext. 2244
Fax: 563-589-4217
Email: mmay at dubuque.lib.ia.us



-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Robert Balliot
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 9:49 AM
To: Publib; web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Kindle at Libraries

This part is particularly intriguing to me:

""We're doing a little something extra here," Marine continued. "Normally, making margin notes in library books is a big no-no. But we're extending our Whispersync technology so that you can highlight and add margin notes to Kindle books you check out from your local library. Your notes will not show up when the next patron checks out the book. But if you check out the book again, or subsequently buy it, your notes will be there just as you left them, perfectly Whispersynced."

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Robert Balliot <rballiot at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Amazon announced they will be introducing a Kindle Program for 
> Libraries<http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-ne
> wsArticle&ID=1552678&highlight=>later this year.  This is significant 
> news for the Library market and quite a game-changer. How will this affect the Overdrive market and the future purchase of hand-held book readers by libraries?
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> http://bestofpublib.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/kindles-and-android-and-n
> ooks-oh-my/
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> R. Balliot
> http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm
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