The Digital Reader

Apple: Pay Full Price For an Ebook You Already Bought

Yesterday, I updated to iOS 4 on my iPhone (like everyone else), and downloaded iBooks. The iOS 4 is nice, pretty fast, and a welcome upgrade. But iBook was a disaster.

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I got this message “You’ve already purchased this (ebook) but it isn’t available for redownload. To purchase it again at full price, tap OK”

ebooks: Libraries at the Tipping Point

… will bring together public libraries, academic libraries, and school libraries (K-12) in a day-long virtual conference environment. The day will include keynote presentations and panel discussions on the evolving concept of the book in a digital world and will keep participants future-focused and actively engaged in visioning and assuring an exciting role for libraries.

Google releases 500 scans of Ancient Greek and Latin texts for research

I’m pleased to announce that Google Books is now assisting this work by sharing high-resolution digital scans of over 500 volumes of Ancient Greek and Latin, dating from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. (Of course, downloadable versions of over a million volumes in all fields are available from books.google.com, in a more compressed form.)

TOKYOPOP offering digital downloads through Zinio

TOKYOPOP announced today that they’ve teamed with the website Zinio — “the world’s top digital publishing distribution service,” according to the press release — to make “more than fifty volumes of manga, available immediately for digital download to your PC and Mac by visiting www.Zinio.com/tokyopop.”