Peak University Library Body Issues List of Demands for Ebook Provision
25 November 2022 (Council of Australian University Libraries)
CAUL identifies 10 areas where the provision of eBooks is not compliant with standards, impacting students with disability and off-campus students.
Apple’s ebook app has lost it’s cute page-turn animation
22 November 2022 (The Verge)
Am I being dramatic? Yes. Has this change made me read on my phone less? Also yes. … replaced by an animation that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Tinder rip-off or a PDF-viewing utility app.
Cambridge University Press Partners With Norway’s Ludenso on AR Textbooks
22 November 2022 (Publishing Perspectives)
Using the Oslo-based ‘Ludenso Studio’ platform, Cambridge expects to enhance its textbooks with increased value in imagery and other assets. The offer is described by Ludenso as an augmented-reality authoring tool, which lets publishers “enrich either existing or new textbook titles with 3D models, embedded videos, audio clips, or links.”
Springer Nature Signs Open-Access Agreement with Japanese Universities
21 November 2022 (Publishing Perspectices)
The University of Tokyo is among the institutions participating in the accord, and the program will allow researchers open-access publication from those facilities in more than 2,000 Springer Nature journals. The participating universities will retain reading access to all existing journals to which they currently have access, and other consortia member-universities are invited to join the agreement.
Anna’s Archive: eBooks Search Engine Emerges After Z-Library Shuts Down
20 November 2020 (TechWorm)
With Z-Library now taken down, the ‘team’ behind the Pirate Library Mirror has launched “Anna’s Archive” – a free online shadow library meta-search engine for finding pirated books. “We deliberately violate the copyright law in most countries. This allows us to do something that legal entities cannot do: making sure books are mirrored far and wide,” they note in their blog post.
Pearson’s CEO is bringing the textbook giant into the future
18 November 2022 (Fortune)
… by tracking readers’ habits: ‘We can tell the author that no one reads chapter four or that they should double down on animation in chapter six.’ Since becoming Pearson’s CEO two years ago, Bird has focused on refashioning the education company’s image as a leading print textbook publisher to that of an online learning company that encompasses career training, reskilling, and lifelong learning.
Google and Amazon Helped the FBI Identify Z-Library’s Operators
17 November 2022 (TorrentFreak)
For the investigation, the FBI used search warrants directed at various companies such as Amazon and Google. This showed that the personal information of Anton Napolsky could be linked to Z-Library email addresses and domains in several instances. For example, Napolsky’s personal mail.ru address was used to register [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] His personal phone number was also linked to Z-Library email addresses.
ebook sales increase by 2.7% in August 2022
16 November 2022 (Good E-Reader)
Year-to-date eBook revenues were down 6.7% as compared to the first eight months of 2021 for a total of $673.3 million.
Two Russian Nationals Charged with Running Massive E-Book Piracy Website
16 November 2022 (US Dept of Justice)
Defendants Operated Z-Library, Which Offered Free Download of Copyrighted Works. Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, an indictment and a complaint were unsealed charging Russian nationals Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering for operating Z-Library, an online e-book piracy website. The pair was arrested on November 3, 2022 in Cordoba, Argentina at the request of the United States. At the same time, Z-Library’s network of online domains was also taken offline and seized by the U.S. government, pursuant to a court order that was also unsealed today.
Storytel Raises another $39 million
9 November 2022 (Press Release)
“The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Directed Issue to, inter alia, partially repay a bridge loan facility totalling SEK 500 million provided by Swedbank AB (publ), as part of the Company’s financing of the acquisition of Audiobooks.com, which was announced on 12 November 2021 and 7 January 2022. Swedbank AB (publ) has offered to refinance SEK 200 million of the outstanding bridge loan facility with a term loan of the same amount. The proceeds will also strengthen Storytel’s balance sheet and capital structure and thereby increase the Company’s financial flexibility to pursue future strategic opportunities in line with the Company’s implemented strategy of profitable growth.”
Millie’s Library pushes ahead with IPO despite lukewarm market
6 November 2022 (The Investor)
Millie’s Library, one of South Korea’s largest e-book subscription platforms, said Friday it will make its stock debut on the tech-heavy secondary bourse Kosdaq later this month, despite the unfavorable market sentiment.
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