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OverDrive WIN could turn libraries into virtual ebookstores
Oct 11 2011
A new initiative by OverDrive (the company behind most ebook lending in libraries) could turn libraries into virtual ebookstores. The idea is that if a patron searches for an ebook in one of OverDrive's 15,000 member libraries and the book is not available, they would be directed instead to a list of online booksellers that support their local library who stock the ebook for sale.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Loved this book. Magical, quirky, enchanting I could go on. All books do not have to be literary fiction, sometimes it is just so comforting to read...
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British Parliament asks Amazon to clarify why it pays $9 million in income tax on $23 billion of UK sales.(May 20 2013) Amazon will be called back to give further evidence to members of the British Parliament "to clarify how its activities in the U.K. justify its low corporate...
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