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The Sony Reader Gets a Library Card
Are Sony Readers Checking Out Your Library? Last week in Denver the American Library Association's held their Mid-Winter meeting. One interesting thing to come out of it is a new cooperative initiative between Sony and the OCLC's (Online Computing Library) Netlibrary service. Many here will already be familiar with NetLibrary, but the nutshell version is that they focus on making more material available electronically to more people. You can find the long version here. Now NetLibrary has worked out an arrangement with Sony to use Sony Digital Readers in that effort. They're going to be offering their users access to what they are calling "Sony Reader Mobile Collections" (five of them to start with), which are basically small collections of books that are readable on the Sony Reader -- all properly licensed, of course. But there is a bit more to it than just the content. They have evidently worked out arrangements to use Readers in the mix, both on-site in the libraries, and for patron check-out as the individual library chooses to arrange, details of that apparent arrangement are not currently available. Quote:
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Sony's press release is here, the OCLC and NetLibrary don't seem to have anything on it yet on their sites. |
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01-30-2009, 06:36 PM | #2 |
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Ooh this sounds cool.
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01-30-2009, 06:39 PM | #3 |
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It does to me too. There are some obvious questions I see, but if they have answers to them, then it could be very cool indeed.
Presumably, with this arrangement they ought to be able to work out something where you can check out e-material to your own Reader and take it home, or maybe check it out from home in the first place. |
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Brilliant. I think one of the major impediments to ebook reader is the perception that it is like reading at your computer. Check one out for three weeks, and I think you'll be hooked.
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01-30-2009, 10:07 PM | #5 |
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That's an excellent point, Jane (good to hear from you, by the way! ) -- I hadn't considered the exposure that such an approach would bring to "everyman" and "everywoman." Particularly those who are initially put off by the pricing of the things. Getting to actually use one this way would go a very long way toward offsetting that.
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NetLibrary talks about it here http://company.netlibrary.com/sony_mobile.aspx
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Interesting article and I agree with Janes points.
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