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<p> <span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight:
bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial;
line-height: 110%;">OPLIN 4Cast #200: E-book
Developments</span><br>
<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;
font-family: arial;">October 20th, 2010</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a title="image
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http://www.clipartpal.com/clipart_pd/education/openbook_10962.html"
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width="136"></a><span style="font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">We've
done three OPLIN <em>4cast</em> posts about
e-books in the last six months, and this one
makes four. We try to mix our topics and avoid
repeating ourselves, but last week there was
just too much e-book news to ignore. This time
the news items that caught our eye were not
necessarily the stories about e-book <a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ebook_sales_triple_in_one_year.php">sales</a>
or <a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2010/10/who-you-calling-crapware-verizon-preloads-kindle-on-android.php">marketing</a>,
but the stories about significant changes to
e-book <strong>content</strong>. These changes
are certainly food for thought; for example,
will libraries have any way to offer patrons new
types of "books" designed from the ground up for
digital distribution? (While you're thinking
about that, you might enjoy Eli Neiburger's
presentation—<a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqAwj5ssU2c">part
1</a> and <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd0lIKVstJg">part
2</a>—from the September 29 LJ/SLJ "ebooks:
Libraries at the Tipping Point" virtual summit.)
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/10/amazon-aims-to-publish-shorter-content-as-kindle-singles.ars">Amazon
to publish "Kindle Singles"</a> (Ars
Technica/Jacqui Cheng) "Amazon is rolling out a
separate section of its Kindle store meant for
shorter content—meatier than long-form
journalism, but shorter than a typical book.
Called 'Kindle Singles,' the content will be
distributed like other Kindle books but will
likely fall between 10,000 and 30,000 words, or
the equivalent of a few chapters from a novel."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/amazon-introduces-a-new-type-of-e-book/">Amazon
introduces a format for shorter e-books</a>
(New York Times/Nick Bilton) "This medium-length
format has traditionally been difficult for
writers to sell to publishers as it doesn't fit
into the mold of a printing-press distribution
model. In a digital distribution system, those
pricing structures no longer exist, and a
digital price can be adjusted accordingly."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/borders_partners_with_bookbrewer_to_turn_blogs_int.php">Borders
partners with BookBrewer to turn blogs into
eBooks</a> (ReadWriteWeb/Audrey Watters)
"While there is a lot of competition in the
eBook and self-publishing space, one of the key
features of BookBrewer is the ability to turn an
RSS feed into a book. This will have appeal not
simply for independent authors, but for bloggers
and for educators."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/feds-give-1-1-million-for-e-textbooks-for-vision-impaired-students/27674">Feds
give $1.1 million for e-textbooks for
vision-impaired students</a> (Chronicle of
Higher Education/Travis Kaya) "Typically,
college students who have trouble with standard
book formats could only turn to their disabled
student-services offices to have textbooks
translated into braille or scanned with
rudimentary text-to-speech computer software.
[...] With more advanced technology, [...]
developers are digitally reformatting hundreds
of books that can be rented online at a much
lower cost to the students and the
institutions."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Young
Reader Fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">A <a
href="http://mediaroom.scholastic.com/node/378">study</a>
conducted this summer by Scholastic Corporation
found that a third of children age 9-17 say they
would read more books for fun if they had access
to e-books on an electronic device; however,
two-thirds of the children also agreed with the
statement, "I'll always want to read books printed
on paper even though there are ebooks available."
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