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Writings about e-book publishing, 2012

A.C. (2012) Enhanced e-books: Truly moving literature. The Economist (21st February 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7hkql9o (24/02/2012)

Adams, Diana (2012) Easy readers? CILIP Update (May 2012): 40-41.

Adin, Rich (2012) Are eBook Authors Unwittingly Losing Sales? TeleRead [blog] Available at: http://tinyurl.com/74ws27m (26/04/2012)

Agresta, Michael (2012) What Will Become of the Paper Book? How their design will evolve in the age of the Kindle. Slate (8th May 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/cy6ovuu (17/05/2012)

Anderson, Kent (2012) Grumpy Old Men — Franzen, Sendak, Permanence, Capitalists, and E-books. The Scholarly Kitchen [blog]. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/74gnc86 (06/02/2012)

Book Industry Study Group (2012) Consumer Attitudes towards E-Book Reading. Volume 3 - 2011-2012. Available from: http://tinyurl.com/6ufe6xd (20/01/2012)

Brantley, Peter (2012) Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition. Publishers Weekly (3rd February 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7mz5veb (06/02/2012)

Broadhurst, Dominic & Janette Watson (2012) E-Book Readers for Full-Time MBA Students: An Investigation in Manchester. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship 17 (2): 170-182.

Bussewitz, Cathy (2012) The e-book evolution. pressdemocrat.com [blog] (8th January 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/848zcvj (10/01/2012)

Carr, Nicholas (2012) The Library of Utopia. Technology Review(May/June 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7fb7ym7 (26/04/2012)

Davenport, Christian (2012) As demand for e-books soars, libraries struggle to stock their virtual shelves. The Washington Post: PostLocal [blog] (15th January 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/78olzf7 (16/01/2012)

Dewan, Pauline (2012) Are books becoming extinct in academic libraries? New Library World 113 (1/2): 27-37.

Dinkins, Debbi (2012) Individual title requests in PDA collections: A small university library’s experience. College & Research Libraries News 73 (5): 249-255. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/cf726j9 (03/05/2012)

Dresselhaus, Angela & Flora Shrode (2012) Mobile Technologies & Academics: Do Students Use Mobile Technology in their Academic Lives and are Librarians Ready to Meet this New Challenge? Information Technology and Libraries. Preprint available via (pdf): http://tinyurl.com/7ope4ll (17/01/2012)

Esposito, Joseph (2012) Thinking Through a Strategy for Digital Rights Management. The Scholarly Kitchen [blog]. (23rd April 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/bnq2ntk (01/05/2012)

Esposito, Joseph (2012) E-books in the Academy — A Story of Limitations and Affordances. The Scholarly Kitchen [blog]. (4th April 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/ct3ql2t (10/04/2012)

Finder, Alan (2012) E-Book Borrowing, Preceded by E-Book Waiting. The New York Times (11th April 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/cz37ct9 (11/04/2012)

Freeman, Daniel A. (2012) Continuing the Conversation: Integrating iPads and Tablet Computers into Library Services. ALA TechSource [blog] (15th March 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7qgkmtq (27/04/2012)

Ratto, Brooke Gilmore & Andy Lynch (2012) The Embedded Textbook: Collaborating with Faculty to Employ Library Subscription E-Books as Core Course Text. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship 24 (1): 1-16.

Goodwin, Susan; Suzanne Shurtz; Adriana Gonzalez & Dennis Clark (2012) Assessing an e-reader lending program: from pilot to mainstream service. Library Review 61 (1): 8-17.

Green, Peter (2012) Visualisation for new generation users in the age of the electronic book. Paper to be presented at 'Library Strategies for New Generation Users'. 33rd Annual IATUL Conference at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 4th-7th June 2012.

Greenfield, Jeremy (2012) For Reading and Learning, Kids Prefer E-Books to Print Books. dbw: digital book world [blog] (09/01/2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7a23lur (10/01/2012)

Grenina, Aiga (2012) Electronic books: content provision and adoption possibilities among users in Latvia. Information Research 17 (1). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/cd5gbbm (05/04/2012)

Haq, Husna (2012) Jonathan Franzen: E-readers are 'damaging to society' [commentary]. The Christian Science Monitor 'Chapter & Verse' [blog] (30th January 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/6sc3euf (10/02/2012)

Harris, Sian (2012) Unpacking books. Research Information (April/May 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/cmqulfs (19/04/2012)

Hellman, Eric (2012) Random House's eBook Price Hikes are GOOD for Libraries. IF... Go to Hellman [blog] (4th March 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7bvj3cf (05/03/2012)

IFLA (2012) E-Lending Background Paper. Available at (pdf): http://tinyurl.com/d4w9nen (17/05/2012)

Keller, Alice (2012) In Print or On Screen? Investigating the Reading Habits of Undergraduate Students Using Photo-Diaries and Photo-Interviews. Libri: International Journal of Libraries and Information Services 62 (1): 1-18.

Kelley, Michael (2012) Moving Beyond the NetLibrary Legacy, EBSCO Reshapes Its Ebook Platform. The Digital Shift [blog] (1st May 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/ctbqknd (03/05/2012)

Kelley, Michael (2012) A Guide to Publishers in the Library Ebook Market. The Digital Shift [blog] (24th February 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/86slrpf (08/03/2012)

Library Renewal (2012) $2 Billion for $1 Billion of Books: The Arithmetic of Library e-Book Lending. Library Renewal [blog] (5th March 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7hj8won (07/03/2012)

Lindsay, J. Michael; Adam Kemper & Sandy Oelschlegel (2012) Evaluating Print Collections for a Transition to Digital. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 9 (1): 35-46.

Lynch, Clifford (2012) Imagining a University Press System to Support Scholarship in the Digital Age. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 13 (2). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7esc339 (10/02/2012)

Lynch, Kelly (2012) E-books: the future for publishers and libraries. Collection Building 31 (2): 78-80.

McKiel, Allen W. (2012) 2011 Global Student E-Book Survey. Palo Alto, CA: ebrary. 29pp. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/87ap77k (24/01/2012)

Moody, Glyn (2012) If Libraries Didn't Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending? techdirt [blog] (5th January 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7ndrk6o (10/01/2012)

Morris-Babb, Meredith & Susie Henderson (2012) An Experiment in Open-Access Textbook Publishing: Changing the World One Textbook at a Time. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 43 (2): 148-155.

Morrison, Ewan (2012) The self-epublishing bubble. The Guardian: Culture (30th January 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7dr64h2 (10/02/2012)

Newman, Bobbi (2012) Should Libraries Get Out of the eBook Business? Librarian by Day [blog] (7th March 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/88vnaw2 (08/03/2012)

Noh, Younghee (2012) A study measuring the performance of electronic resources in academic libraries. Aslib Proceedings 64 (2): 134-153.

de Oliveira, Silas Marques (2012) User Attitudes and Behaviours of E-textbook Usage in an Academic Library: James White Library at Andrews University. Paper to be presented at 'Library Strategies for New Generation Users'. 33rd Annual IATUL Conference at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 4th-7th June 2012.

Polanka, Sue (2012) E-books: a moving target. CILIP Update (May 2012): 38-39.

Polanka, Sue (2012) A Primer on Ebooks for Libraries Just Starting With Downloadable Media. The Digital Shift [blog] (20th April 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/d39qb6m (20/04/2012)

Polanka, Sue (2012) University Presses and Ebooks: A New Horizon. Information Today 36 (1). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/82hu5we (06/02/2012)

Rainie, Lee; Kathryn Zickuhr; Kristen Purcell; Mary Madden & Joanna Brenner (2012) The rise of e-reading [Summary and complete report]. Washinton: Pew Research Centre (4th April 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/8xnmzro (10/04/2012)

Raphael, Molly (2012) Ebook Talks: The Details [Summary of the meetings ALA and the publishing industry at the end of January 2012].E-content [blog] (8th February 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/76e8ssh (10/02/2012)

Ratcliff, Trey (2012) Why e-books will be much bigger than you can imagine. gigaom [blog] (16th January 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7pdwyw6 (24/01/2012)

Richardson, John V. Jr & Khalid Mahmood (2012) eBook readers: user satisfaction and usability issues. Library Hi Tech 30 (1): 170-185.

Savova, Maria & Matthew Garsia (2012) McGill Library Makes E-books Portable: E-reader Loan Service in a Canadian Academic Library. portal: Libraries and the Academy 12 (2): 205-222.

Schroeder, Rebecca (2012) When patrons call the shots: patron-driven acquisition at Brigham Young University. Collection Building 31 (1): 11-14.

Springer (2012) STM eBooks: Librarian Perspectives on the First 5 years. Available at (pdf): http://tinyurl.com/853zwwz (20/01/2012)

Tucker, James Cory (2012) Ebook collection analysis: subject and publisher trends. Collection Building 31 (2): 40-47.

Vasileiou, Magdalini; Richard Hartley & Jennifer Rowley (2012) Choosing e-books: a perspective from academic libraries. Online Information Review 36 (1): 21-39.

Wheeler, Brad & Nik Osborne (2012) Case Study 21: Shaping the Path to Digital: The Indiana University eTexts Initiative. Educause: Game Changers: Education and Information Technologies. Available at: http://tinyurl.com/886h2jq (17/05/2012)

Wolff, Jonathan (2012) Academic ebooks can succeed but publishers must play their part. The Guardian (19th February 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/88mon52 (24/02/2012)

Wood, Gaby (2012) Reading the future: Digital books and what's to come for literature. The Telegraph (17th February 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/7fgv7qm (24/02/2012)

Wright, Emma (2012) What makes a good-looking eBook: Tips on eBook design for standard titles. FUTUReBOOK [Bookseller blog] (14th February 2012). Available at: http://tinyurl.com/75p6vhy (15/02/2012)



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