Phil the Web Crawler – Teens Love Print, Apple eBook Price Fixing, UFV Closes Library, and 3D Printers in Libraries

– Court rules Apple fixed ebook prices, led an illegal conspiracy.

– The real villain in the ebooks case isn’t Apple or Amazon — it’s publishers’ addiction to DRM.

– Funding cuts lead to University of the Fraser Valley Mission Campus library closure.

– Canadiana.org under fire for digitization deal with Library and Archives Canada.

– Pew Study: Teens Still Love Print Media, ‘Traditional’ Library Services.

– Authors Guild Loses Class Action Status.

– Amazon launches graphic novel imprint, with George R.R. Martin among first authors.

– The Latest UK Digital eBook News.

– Why public libraries should follow Chicago’s lead and build maker labs.

Phil the Web Crawler – Cheaper Postage Law, UFV Library Grad Shines, and Where is Your Data Stored?

– After six years of work, Merv Tweed’s dream of cheaper postage for rural ibraries has become a reality.

– UFV Library Tech Grad Shines: New chapter awaits Gov. General Bronze Medal winner Anna-Marie Krahn.

– Former Library and Archives Canada boss criticizes private digitizing deal.

– Canadian Association of University Teachers criticizes Library and Archives Canada Digital Plan.

– Apple: We have 20 percent of the U.S. ebook market.

– Digital Comics: 40 Million Served (This Year).

– New ebook DRM will change the text of a story to prevent piracy.

– One lesson from the NSA scandal: Find out where your cloud provider’s data centers are located.

– Libki support now available from ByWater Solutions.

– NoveList and TLC Expand Relationship to Include ILS Integration into NoveList Select.

Phil the Web Crawler – LAC Privatization, Public Access to Research, and Surveillance and the Power of Data.

– Library and Archives Canada private deal would take millions of documents out of public domain.

– Heritage minister looks at restoring local archives program.

– Visit proves there’s still a place for public libraries.

– Universities and Libraries Envision a ‘Federated System’ for Public Access to Research.

– Publishers Propose Public-Private Partnership to Support Access to Research.

– Leading virtual reference and patron support software, Mosio’s Text a Librarian is now Mosio for Libraries.

– PwC: the U.S. consumer ebook market will be bigger than the print book market by 2017.

– Will the latest NSA surveillance scandal be a wake-up call about the power of data?

– Amazon In France: French Culture Minister Calls Website ‘Destructive For Booksellers’.

– Soon you’ll be able to read iBooks on your Mac.

Phil the Web Crawler – Google Must Give User Data to FBI, Hybrid Authors, and Overdrive’ Big Library Read.

– Judge: Google must give FBI user information.

– First eBook in Overdrive’s Big Library Read Program Downloaded 24,000 Times.

– SirsiDynix and Bibliotheca reaffirm Global Strategic Alliance.

– Random House Launches BookScout Mobile App.

–  First Gale-Smithsonian Collections come to libraries worldwide.

– Hybrid Authors Weigh in on a Myriad of Issues.

– What the Toronto Star, Chicago Tribune and other media companies have learned from publishing ebooks.

– HarperCollins makes it easier for authors to give away their ebooks.

– The biggest difference between Amazon and book publishers.

– From the desk of Myron Grover: Contempt for values: The controversy over Library and Archives Canada’s Code of Conduct.

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Phil the Web Crawler – Kickstart your library with a major book chain, textbook free degree, Google’s drive by privacy invasion, and stop saying “unstructured data”.

– EX LIBRIS Association  Calls for a Parliamentary Review of Libraries and Archives Canada.

– US Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Libraries, Consumer Rights.

– MIT to release redacted Aaron Swartz documents.

– The Toronto Public Library’s latest revenue stream: A major book chain.

– Reinvention and innovation will protect public library services says Capita.

– Google Admits to Drive-by Invasion of Privacy.

– Courthouse Libraries BC selects Soutron Global: Multi-site Legal Library to migrate from SirsiDynix.

– Open-Education Company Helps Develop Textbook-Free Associate Degree.

– Anti-vaccine Group Coming to Vancouver Creating Controversy Over Freedom of Speech.

– Kickstart this book! What I learned about crowdsourced publishing.

– Amazon Publishing launches literary fiction imprint, Little A.

– Can we please stop saying “unstructured” data?

Phil the Web Crawler – Apple bans eBook, Academics slam cuts to LAC, hone your Google-fu and put your kid in the story.

– Canadian history, heritage are at risk from cuts to Libraries and Archives Canada, say academics.

– Apple bans Danish eBook from it’s iBookstore because of nudity.

– News Corp, which owns book publisher HarperCollins, is reportedly in “preliminary” talks to buy CBS’s Simon & Schuster.

– Penguin expands library ebook lending with Baker & Taylor.

– 20 Google Search Shortcuts to Hone Your Google-Fu.

– Tolkien estate sues Warner Brothers over Lord of the Rings digital rights.

– If data is the new oil, don’t end up being BP.

– Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as ‘Businessperson of the Year’: Can the book world learn from him?

– ‘Put me in the story, mom!’ Now you really can.

Phil the Web Crawler – Literary GGs, Market value of eBooks, best ebook database, Sony eReader app for iOS, LAC modernization and library in a disaster zone.

– The Canada Council for the Arts announces 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award winners.

– Library in a disaster zone after Hurricane Sandy.

– What Katrina Can Teach Libraries About Sandy and Other Disasters.

– Assessing the Market Value of eBooks Acquired by Libraries: An Economic Analysis Commissioned by ALA.

– Flat World Knowledge to Drop Free Access to Textbooks.

– Library Journal awards Best E-book Database to ebrary’s Academic Complete.

– EBSCO Publishing Releases K-8 and High School E-book Collections.

– LAC Modernisation – Does it Add Up?

– Pearson Project Will Let Professors Mix Free and Paid Content in E-Textbooks.

– Ferriss: Even if I sell a million Kindle books, some people will call it a failure.

– In praise of literature.  A literary scholar looks back, and ahead, to diagnose the problems facing his field.

– Sony’s Reader app on iOS: Better late than never?

Phil the Web Crawler – Save Canadian National Archives, free stories from Gaiman, and disappearing history on web.

– Documentary Organization of Canada launches campaign to save Canadian National Archives.

– And the death by a thousand cuts at Library and Archives Canada continues.

– It seems a week can’t go by without a new incident of plagiarism by some prominent journalist, and this week it’s Canadian Margaret Wente, a star columnist.

– Great ALA video promotion for libraries.  Libraries: Changing Lives, Transforming Communities.

– ALA President Protests Library Ebook Sales Practices in Open Letter to Publishers.

– Can MOOCs help sell textbooks?

– Is Panama About to Pass the Worst Copyright Law in History?

– Downtown LA Intersection Renamed For Sci-Fi Author Ray Bradbury.

– Book sculpture flows out of Museum Meermanno.

– Neil Gaiman introduces free stories.

– Walmart to Discontinue Amazon Kindle e-Reader and Tablet Sales.

– Disappearing history on the disappearing web.

Phil the Web Crawler – The guiding light of data, moving LAC, Google urges end to authors’ suit, graphic novels ban and in praise of the public library.

– The Digital Library of America project has raised $1 million to help make library materials freely available online to anyone.

– Why data should be our guiding light on public policy.

– Librarians at Comic-Con: Bringing Comics to Life at the Library.

– But in 2011, for the first time in six years of annual Canadian library surveys, an entire genre of resources – graphic novels – was challenged for removal from a library’s collection.

– On the move: Library and Archives Canada has compiled the first-ever master list of how well its massive collection is holding up as it prepares for a major move next year of thousands of pieces of Canadian history.

– What makes a book a book and not just a bunch of data?

– Is this a book? Random House TV to make shows based on books.

– In praise of the public library.

– Google urges end to authors’ lawsuit saying its digital library helps authors and the public.

– A Guide to F**king Up in the Digital Age.

Phil the Web Crawler – Shhhhhhhtereotype, Dr. Livingstone in living colour, resume screening software, Big Data and Colbert’s children’s book No. 1

– Top Libraries in U.S. and Canada Issue Statement Demanding Better Ebook Services.

– Barnes and Noble speaks out about the US Department of Justice (DOJ) eBook price fixing law suit against major publishers.

-University of Alberta’s Christine Brown organizes some cool summer support for LAC-BAC.

– The continuing drive for more accountability in academe presents “a unique opportunity” for libraries.

– Author’s Guild vs. Google Books is now a class action lawsuit.

– Stephen Colbert’s children’s book tops the bestseller list.

– Do you have a favourite book in hardcover signed in person by the author?  You might want to hang onto it.  Hermetically seal it.  As author signings are now going digital.

– Teen books and obscenity. New study suggests teen books are full of swearing and obscenity, usually by attractive characters.

– Real Time iPad collaboration across the planet?  There’s an app for that.

– Are book covers dead?  Maybe, maybe not.

– And finally a fitting tribute to Ray Bradbury, a terrific author who fed our imagination with visions of the future.