Executive Director of the Massachusetts Library System
Interview Starts at 15:10
What I’d like to see is an acquisitions module like the Amazon platform, where any publisher could upload their collection. They could choose from a menu of license terms, purchase terms, and then the libraries could simply pick the ones they wanted, buy them, and have access to them right from there. If it was a trusted provider that the publishers and the libraries trusted, we would feel comfortable that we had ownership when we bought content. Leased content would be separate.
Show Notes and Links:
News
“The Crazy Stat That Explains Why Amazon Kindles Are So Cheap” by Nicholas Carlson at Business Insider – December 17, 2013
“Amazon Has Over 20 Million Kindles in Consumer Hands” (PDF) – press release by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners – December 11, 2013
Consumer Intelligence Research Partners website
The Kindle Chronicles at iTunes - to leave a review, click on the blue “View in iTunes” button, then click on “Launch application.” At Kindle Chronicles iTunes listing, click on “Ratings and Reviews” tab, then “Write a Review.” Thanks!
“Introducing Amazon Storybuilder – A New Tool That Helps Writers Build Movie and Series Outlines” - Amazon press release December 18, 2013
New Amazon Storybuilder free tool for scriptwriting
495 Productions
Jesse Betlyon on LinkedIn, IMDb and Staff Me Up
Tattoo Nightmares at Amazon Instant Video
Create an Amazon Wish List
Tech Tip
Push to Kindle app – 99 cents at Apps for Android store at Amazon.com
Push to Kindle app at Google Play store – $1.90
Interview with Greg Pronevitz
Massachusetts eBook Project
Massachusetts Library System
My interview with Jamie LaRue, director of the Douglas County (CO) Libraries – July 12, 2013
James G. Neal, University Librarian at Columbia
2CUL- partnership between Columbia and Cornell University Libraries
Deb Hoadley, Massachusetts Library System advisor and team leader for eBook Pilot
Vendors for MA eBook Project: Baker & Taylor and BiblioBoard
Baker & Taylor’s Blio reader (Android, Windows and iOS only)
How to load BiblioBoard Library to a Kindle Fire
OverDrive
Library Renewal
ReadersFirst
Odilo
ProQuest
BiblioCommons
Safari’s PubFactory
OCLC library cooperative
Pew Study on libraries – December 11, 2013
Next Week’s Guest:
Jason Bailey, co-owner of JJ Books, participant in Amazon Source program in which independent bookstores are selling Kindles
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