Posts Tagged ‘ eBooks ’
Audio, Digital and Paper, Oh My!
There’s this web series on YouTube called InterrobangYA, where book bloggers who blog about YA literature discuss various things relating to YA. I was really interested in Danielle’s recent video about formats..i.e. audiobooks vs. eBooks vs. paper books. I’d kind of been thinking about these issues and was going to post about it anyway,…
Amazon and the Future of Public Libraries
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Amazon is hoping to create a Netflix like service for eBooks. Members would pay a flat fee and could read “borrowed” eBooks on their Kindles. I was originally going to discuss this news in my post about book piracy, but I figured that post was long enough…
Book Piracy or That Building Called a Library
A few months ago, I subscribed to Jackson Pearce’s Youtube Channel. Pearce falls into the category of authors whose work I’ve never read but really want to. As I was going through some of her past videos, I came across this one about book piracy: And I found myself thinking about book piracy. There…
Notes from the Bibliosphere
Note: this post was originally titled “Hooked On the book”. I changed the title because I thought “Notes from the Bibliosphere” better represented what I was trying to do. Welcome to my first ever Notes from the bibliosphere. I hope for this to be a semi-regular series of posts in which I mention some…