Apple, US publishers threatened with lawsuit for colluding over e-book prices - March 12, 2012
The US Justice Department has reportedly warned Apple, Inc. and five of the nation’s leading publishers that it plans to take legal action against them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of e-books. The publishers include Pearson, Macmillan, Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster and… Read More
Elsevier announces winners of its first China Science Challenge - March 12, 2012
STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced the winners and winning applications of its first China Science Challenge, a competition calling out software developers to create customised solutions to enhance the search and discovery experience for researchers on the SciVerse platform. Participants of the challenge worked… Read More
Springer Publishing takes top honours in the 2011 AJN Book of the Year Awards - March 12, 2012
Healthcare and social science publisher Springer Publishing Company recently announced that the company received ten ‘AJN Book of the Year Awards’ in nursing. AJN claims to be the oldest and one of the most honored broad-based nursing journals in the world. The awards programme is… Read More
SAGE named IPG Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year 2012 - March 12, 2012
Academic publisher SAGE has been named the Independent Publisher’s Guild (IPG) Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year 2012. The announcement was made as part of the IPG’s annual conference. SAGE won this category with a professional publishing programme, wide-ranging digital activity, high production standards… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - March 12, 2012
The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Kent Anderson (Words of Digital Wisdom — Crafting Organizations That Are Smaller, More Profitable, and Provide Full-Service to Verticals); David Liberman (Will Feds Challenge Apple And Publishers’ E-Book Pricing Arrangement?); Rick Anderson (E-journal Preservation and Archiving: Whether, How, Who, Which,… Read More
3M Library Systems and Polaris Library Systems announce strategic partnership to integrate 3M Cloud Library with Polaris ILS - March 12, 2012
Library solutions provider 3M Library Systems and Polaris Library Systems have announced a strategic partnership that will make browsing and checking out eBooks simpler. The 3M Cloud Library eBook Lending Service will now be integrated with the Polaris Integrated Library System (ILS), allowing patrons at participating… Read More
