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Good E Reader recently conducted a survey to determine the most popular digital bookstores out of the hundreds available around the world. The results? Amazon currently controls 75% of the eBook market in the US. This staggering figure indicates how little...

e-Reader technology does not improve at the exponential rate as tablets and smartphones do. New e-paper comes out every two or three years and there seldom is a compelling enough reason to spend a hundred dollars to buy a new device. Once in awhile new...

One of the little known treasures in Carver County Minnesota is the Law Library in the Carver County Government Center. It is primarily a resource for those who wish to represent themselves without the assistance of a lawyer. Among its resources is a...

Libraries have long been community gathering spaces where all members of society can gather around the pursuit of knowledge or the entertainment of a good read. But the outmoded function of the library as a giant warehouse for physical books means that...

Bill Gates is out with his annual summer reading list and, while longer than last year’s , it’s a great place to kick off your summer reading. Read the full article here from Farnam Street.

One thing we love about the Ouachita Parish Public Library is… You don’t have to be inside the walls of a brick-and-mortar library to use its tremendous assets. For free. More and more books, music, videos, movies and periodicals are available...

Ohio State has opened the doors to a new campus destination for all things technology. It offers students the chance to purchase products at discounted prices. In addition, it provides help for students’ technological problems and an opportunity...

Apple has developed a new online news reading app that will launch this fall, as part of the iOS 9 operating system upgrade. It will replace the Apple Newsstand as we know it and give readers the same type of experience that companies like Flipboard and...

A book before bedtime can be a good way to unwind after a day spent staring at computer screens, but what if your tome of choice is on your smartphone or tablet? Won't the bright light mess with your sleep? Ebook subscription service Oyster certainly...

The Los Angeles County Law Library celebrated Law Day, May 1, with a week of activities that ranged from five hours of free MCLE courses to a performance by Gary S. Greene, Esq. and His Big Band of Barristers. All events took place in the downtown Los...

The recently renovated law library might look like it’s reserved for lawyers. However, an increasing number of people are handling their own legal matters. Angela Baldree, the library’s executive director said that of the approximately 15...

The American Membrane Technology Association (AMTA) is committed to preserving the technical contributions and personal narratives of professionals in our industry and making that information available to the water treatment community now and in the future...

A digital platform that makes cultural and literature works available to anyone with an internet connection will grow its collection to include materials from all 50 states by 2017, thanks to $3.4 million in grants from Miami’s John S. and James...

E-readers rejoice: Amazon and Google are rolling out new fonts designed not only to look better on screen but to make reading easier on the eye. Both companies have developed custom fonts specifically for e-books. Read the full article from The Wall Street...

LexisNexis recently released a series of new jurisdictional and practice area pages. Each of the major legal publishers is responding to the legal market demand for new products and platforms which drive efficiency and streamline lawyer workflow. Unlike...

Learning how to create ebooks is neither an easy process nor a cheap one. Determining what kind of production knowledge best suits your goals can be a helpful point of departure, even if you aren’t considering a career as an ebook developer. Whether...

Many of the top e-reader brands from Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo have abandoned manual page turn buttons. There was no clear reason for doing so and it’s not like thousands of people were complaining about it. Why exactly are they a thing...

Even though smartphones and tablets have more or less taken over the world of digital reading, ebook readers are still going strong. When the glare of all these screens gets to be too much to handle, Amazon’s Kindle rides in as the savior of the...

For a book-lover, having one book is never as good as having two. Bibliophiles the world over know the conundrum of how to feed their addiction without having to move into a house of epic proportions or rent an environmentally controlled storage space...

Textbook makers, bookstore owners and college student surveys all say millennials still strongly prefer print for pleasure and learning, a bias that surprises reading experts given the same group’s proclivity to consume most other content digitally...

The integration is licensed through Handshake Software and enables firm attorneys and law librarians to review and check out eBook titles via SharePoint, and gives them greater efficiency by contextualizing their subscription to LexisNexis Digital Library...

Reading eBooks on the iPhone lets you use large or small font, take notes and see definitions without leaving an eBook app for iPhone. Read the full article from GottaBe Mobile here.

Secretary of State Jesse White – who’s also the state librarian – announced Friday the Illinois State Library will become a “service hub” for the Digital Public Library of America. The digital library was launched in 2013...

What we can learn as we strive to widen the digital consumption of books is how to improve the user journey—how to best not only what is out there digitally, but to improve on how books are discovered, bought and read in the offline world as well...

LexisNexis® Digital Library provides value for students, faculty and alumni Suffolk University places a high value on technology and innovation that prepares students for the future of the legal profession. For example, the University offers a...