Archive for the ‘Virtual Libraries’ Category

Digital-Library Company Plans to Charge Students a Monthly Fee for Access

A NEW DIGITAL-LIBRARY COMPANY that claims it will “transform how academic research is done” hopes to entice students to pay as much as $360 a year for online access to books and journals.

adam.com Teams with Brooks/Cole Publishing to Distribute adam online anatomy

ATLANTA, Nov 9, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — adam.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADAM), a leading originator and integrator of health information, today announced a new alliance with Brooks/Cole, a leading science textbook publisher for higher education. Under the agreement, Brooks/Cole will link adam online anatomy (AOA) to biology and anatomy & physiology texts, helping educators reinforce learning […]

Harvard Business Review Article Identifies booktech.com as the Wave of the Future for Publishing’s New `Lean Retailing’ Demands

WOBURN, Mass., Nov 8, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) — An article in the November-December 2000 issue of the Harvard Business Review, “Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing,” asserts that booktech.com (AMEX: BTC) has an exemplary business model for the future of the publishing industry.

In search of the e-book magic bullet

Who will rule the burgeoning e-publishing roost? A handful of digital-publishing upstarts are betting they can unseat the New York book establishment.

E-Books Garner Another Award

The Electronic Literature Awards are the latest to pat e-book authors on the virtual back. Also from M.J. Rose’s notebook: Gemstar wants e-books to cost lots…. Authors to get individual websites.

you say you want an e-book revolution?

Stephen King is angry at me. He doesn’t call, He doesn’t write (or rather, he writes all the time, just not to me). Actually King is not so much angry at me as he is at people like me.

Publisher Sets Policy on E-Books

Hoping to settle a publishing industry dispute, Random House, the largest English language publisher, is expected to announce today that it will evenly split its electronic book sales revenue with writers.

Internet an equalizer for libraries

COLUMBIA – Technology – specifically, the Internet – is helping to close the gap between information available at urban and rural library systems.

Online publishing gets boost from Forsyth

Author has sold 60 million books, but his next work will sell online only

Library Expands Remote Access

The Library now offers expanded remote access to electronic information resources. Students, faculty, and staff who are off-campus and not connected to the campus network may now access databases, electronic journals, and other services requiring authentication.