My library created EbooksforLibraries.com earlier this year as an online petition to the Big Six publishers (read more here, here, and here).
We finished phase one of our project, so we sat back and thought … “hmm. What should we do with ebooksforlibraries next?”
Watch the video in this post to find out the answer to that! And then go visit our first post on the relaunched ebooksforlibraries website (and make sure to subscribe, too).
Our goal is pretty simple. There are a lot of really great blogs and news sites devoted to ebooks and the publishing industry, and we don’t want to try to mimic those. But as we’ve been following those sites, and all the many stories surrounding ebooks and libraries, we realized something: no one’s telling libraries what any of these changes actually MEAN for libraries. No one’s saying “great – big-name publisher #1 says you own your ebook files. What changes tomorrow for our public library because of that announcement? What’s that mean next week, or even next year”
So our goal is to try and answer those practical questions surrounding ebooks for libraries.
Fingers crossed!
