Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 16:15:05 +0100
From: Gary Price <gary.price@...>
To: jwne@...
Subject: [ResourceShelf] Newsletter No.416


Off the Shelf: ResourceShelf Newsletter
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Number 416 July 9, 2009


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Greetings from St. Pete/Tampa:

Summer in Florida can be like winter 'up north.' There are days when
you just plain do not want to go outside. And that season has
arrived, so I'm curling up in my comfortable, air conditioned
surroundings and doing a lot more reading these days.

There are always stacks of magazines around here...lots of dead.tree
books as well. Now there is a Kindle. And when you have too much
month left at the end of your money, there are plenty of free ebooks
for the Kindle.

There are plenty of free ebooks for everyone. Check out the Resource
of the Week.

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Resource of the Week: Roundup of Recent Posts About eBooks...and Some
Kindle Stuff By Shirl Kennedy and Gary Price

http://digbig.com/5baaqp

Why eBooks? Why now? Because the Fourth Annual World eBook Fair got
underway July 4 - which means you have free access to more than two
million eBooks through August 4. Also, the Kindle DX - with its larger
screen format - just made its appearance...and apparently sold out quite
rapidly.

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Word from Michael Hart, the Founder of Project Gutenberg, that once
again this year the World e-Book Fair will take place from July 4th-
August 4th. This is the 4th year of the annual book fair. It starts on
July 4th to celebrate the 38th anniversary of Project Gutenberg which
began on July 4th, 1971.

Once the event begins you'll find FREE access to over 2.5 million full
text eBooks that you can download to your computer. Some titles can
also be downloaded and read on certain types mobile phones.

Book Sources include:

* Project Gutenberg

* Digital Pulp Publishing

* Internet Archive

* The World Public Library (normally a fee-based site)

* E-Books About Everything

* Direct to World eBook Fair Web Site and Database
<http://www.worldebookfair.org/>

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Meanwhile, over on the other side of the pond:

From the Announcement

JISC has funded an 'e-books for Further Education (FE) project to
make over 3000 e-books freely available to every college and sixth
form in the UK.

Over the next five years, the project, which also received funding
from the Learning Skills Council (LSC), will enable all students
in FE in the UK to access online course texts to support their
studies.

E-books will be made available from the start of the next academic
year via the ebrary e-books platform E-books will be made
available from the start of the next academic year via the ebrary
e-books platform. Subjects will range from Fashion Design to
Software Engineering, Health and Social Care to Automobile
Electronics, and Beauty Therapy to Practical Lambing. Access will
be available whether students are studying in the college, at home
or in an internet café.

See Also: UK National e-Book Survey (May 2008) (14 pages; PDF)
<http://www.jiscebooksproject.org/wp-content/jisc-freetext-report.pdf>

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Want to learn a little bit more about eBooks?

A new primer by Jane Lee from the California Digital Library.

The article includes the following sections:

* Content vs. Delivery

* Reading as an Experience

* Why e-books now?

* Control of Content, Control of Distribution

* Standards and Protocols

* Will e-books make printed books obsolete?

* Issues to Consider

Direct to Complete Article (7 pages; PDF)
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Do you use Google Book Search?

Seven new and updated features and tools from Google Books today. You
can read about them here. Here are a few highlights:

Embeds and links - This new toolbar option allows you to embed a
preview of a full view or partner book in any of your websites or
blogs...all with a simple html snippet. It's a lot like the embed
tag that makes it so easy to share YouTube videos.

Better search within each book - You've always been able to search
inside books you find on Google Book Search. Now, for public
domain and partner books, we've made it easier to see exactly
where your search term appears within the book by showing you more
context around the term, including an image from the part of the
page on which it appears.

Thumbnail view - Click on the thumbnail view button in the toolbar
to see an overview of all the pages in a public domain book or in
a magazine

Contents drop-down menu - Above the book itself, you'll find a
Contents drop-down that allows you to jump to chapters within the
book...or articles within a magazine.

Page Turn Button and Animation - In addition to scrolling through
the book, you can now also click the page turn button at the
bottom of the screen, even if you haven't yet finished the page.

Improved Book Overview Page On the Overview page you'll find an
assortment of useful data about the book, including reviews,
ratings, summaries, related books, key words and phrases,
references from the web, places mentioned in the book, publisher
information, etc.

Source: Inside Google Book Search Hat Tip: Barry S.

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And what about the hardware?

From the Blog Post:

The interest in e-readers, or e-books as they are called now, has
reached a fever pitch. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fields nothing but
Kindle questions at the company's shareholder meeting. Prime View
picks up E Ink, the company that supplies the screen to Amazon's
Kindle, for $215 million. And companies ranging from Google to
Interead are aiming to upset Amazon's early advantage.

The complete post contains a chart from a new report from Forrester
Research laying out how they believe the market will develop.

Source: ZDNet

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Do you use a Kindle? Are you thinking about buying one? Check out The
Kindle Warehouse blog, which offers Kindle - and Kindle product-related
news, tips, and reviews. Be sure not to miss the post about - Free
Kindle eBooks. User comments contain links to even more resources. Who
knew there was so much free stuff available for this popular - though
proprietary - device?

More worthwhile Kindle stuff:

* KindleBoards
* Kindle Tips
* Kindle Wiki
* KindleTips - Ultimate Kindle 2 Shortcuts and Tricks (GeekTonic)
* KindleMag (e-bookvine)

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