When Books Go Digital

Elizabeth B. ThomsenNOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange February 28, 2012

 Downloadable ebooks and audiobooks Primarily aimed at public libraries and schools Download to computer, ebook reader, MP3 player, smartphone, tablet Added Kindle support in September Business is booming, especially since Christmas!

 Academic, searchable collections of ebooks Typically used for research rather than reading cover-to-cover Provides access to a much larger collection of books than the library could own and manage in print More accessible to students Ebooks as database?

 Project Gutenberg ManyBooks.net What students (and anybody) can do with raw text: annotated editions, literary mash-ups, adaptations, illustrated editions

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 Elizabeth Thomsen et@noblenet.org

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