Executive Director of the Massachusetts Library System

Interview Starts at 15:10

What I’d like to see is an acquisitions module like the Amazon platform, where any publisher could upload their collection. They could choose from a menu of license terms, purchase terms, and then the libraries could simply pick the ones they wanted, buy them, and have access to them right from there. If it was a trusted provider that the publishers and the libraries trusted, we would feel comfortable that we had ownership when we bought content. Leased content would be separate.

News

“The Crazy Stat That Explains Why Amazon Kindles Are So Cheapâ€Â by Nicholas Carlson at Business Insider – December 17, 2013

“Amazon Has Over 20 Million Kindles in Consumer Handsâ€Â (PDF) – press release by Consumer Intelligence Research Partners – December 11, 2013

Consumer Intelligence Research Partners website

The Kindle Chronicles at iTunes - to leave a review, click on the blue “View in iTunes” button, then click on “Launch application.” At Kindle Chronicles iTunes listing, click on “Ratings and Reviews” tab, then “Write a Review.” Thanks!

“Introducing Amazon Storybuilder – A New Tool That Helps Writers Build Movie and Series Outlinesâ€Â - Amazon press release  December 18, 2013

New Amazon Storybuilder free tool for scriptwriting

495 Productions

Jesse Betlyon on LinkedIn, IMDb and Staff Me Up

Tattoo Nightmares at Amazon Instant Video

Create an Amazon Wish List

Tech Tip

Push to Kindle app – 99 cents at Apps for Android store at Amazon.com

Push to Kindle app at Google Play store – $1.90

Interview with Greg Pronevitz

Massachusetts eBook Project

Massachusetts Library System

My interview with Jamie LaRue, director of the Douglas County (CO) Libraries – July 12, 2013

James G. Neal, University Librarian at Columbia

2CUL- partnership between Columbia and Cornell University Libraries

Deb Hoadley, Massachusetts Library System advisor and team leader for eBook Pilot

Vendors for MA eBook Project: Baker & Taylor and BiblioBoard

Baker & Taylor’s Blio reader (Android, Windows and iOS only)

How to load BiblioBoard Library to a Kindle Fire

OverDrive

Library Renewal

ReadersFirst

Odilo

ProQuest

BiblioCommons

Safari’s PubFactory

OCLC library cooperative

Pew Study on libraries – December 11, 2013 

Next Week’s Guest:

Jason Bailey, co-owner of JJ Books, participant in Amazon Source program in which independent bookstores are selling Kindles

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Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named “Well, You Needn’t.” This version is “Ra-Monk” by Eval Manigat on the “Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive” CD by Public Transit Recording” CD.

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