[%message:opentracker%]
ITI Newslink
Inside this Issue
NewsBreaks
Weekly News Digests
NewsLink Spotlight
ITI Blogs


Other ITI Newsletters
CRM eWeekly
InfoToday Europe eNews
KMWorld Newslinks
Smart Customer Service eWeekly
Speech Technology eWeekly
Streaming Media Producer FOCUS
Streaming Media Xtra
Streaming Media Europe Xtra
Thursday, March 08, 2012

We are offering a series of free webinar presentations in honor of Women’s History Month. Institutions that register and attend one of these special webinars will receives a 10% discount honoring Women's History Month on new purchases or subscriptions ordered by March 30th, 2012.

NewsBreaks
Amazon’s Squeeze on Booksellers Leads to Boycotts and Protests
by Nancy K. Herther
Following several recent skirmishes with bricks-and-mortar bookstores, Amazon is now tussling with an independent book distributor. On Feb. 21, Independent Publishers Group (IPG)—the country's second-largest independent book distributor—alerted its 400-plus publishing clients that "Amazon.com has failed to renew its agreement with IPG to sell Kindle titles." President Mark Suchomel noted that, "Amazon.com is putting pressure on publishers and distributors to change their terms for electronic and print books to be more favorable toward Amazon." Despite positive industry response, others wonder how long IPG can hold out against Amazon.

Weekly News Digests
Baker & Taylor Agreement With Smashwords to Bring Ebooks to Blio
Baker & Taylor, Inc., a distributor of digital and physical books, together with K-NFB Reading Technology, developer of the Blio e-reading application, announced a distribution agreement with Smashwords that will bring nearly 100,000 independently published ebooks to the Blio store. Blio is the feature-rich ereading application that allows readers to experience ereading in a new way and use their digital library across multiple devices. Smashwords is a distributor of indie (self-published) ebooks.
EBSCO Releases First Subscription Ebook Collection
EBSCO Publishing released its first subscription ebook collection. eBook Academic Subscription Collection supplies full-text ebooks covering a broad spectrum of academic subjects, from business to science and engineering to the humanities. Nearly 70,000 titles are included.
Latest Version of Thomson Reuters ProView E-Reader Platform Launches Globally
Thomson Reuters announced the global launch of the latest version of Thomson Reuters ProView, its professional e-reader platform. Currently available in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia, and soon to launch in other regions, the new version of Thomson Reuters ProView adds power and functionality to the first e-reader platform specifically built from the ground up for professionals, allowing users to interact with ebooks in entirely new ways.

NewsLink Spotlight
Update on Political Fact-Check Websites
by Paula J. Hane
As I write this, the U.S. is in the midst of a hotly contested GOP presidential primary. The countdown to "Super Tuesday" is 6 days, and the countdown to the election is 251 days. Some days, I think I've just had enough election news. It's exhausting for a voting individual to examine all the claims and statements made by the candidates. How do we keep up with who said what and check to see if it contradicts their earlier statements or twists the facts/statistics? Hardly a day goes by that I don't see an article that questions or outright refutes something said in a speech or debate. But which sites can we believe?

cover of the September issue of Information Today

Subscribe to Information Today newsmagazine for only $69.95 (personal subscription) or $99.95 (institutional subscription) per year. Available in print, PDF, or print-plus-PDF options.

ITI Blogs

If you regularly read blogs, add these to your reader:

ITI Conferences (libconf.com): covering ITI’s library conferences worldwide

ILI365/InfoToday Europe (infotoday.eu): news and ideas for, and by, innovative info pros from around the world, throughout the year

Streaming Media (streamingmedia.com/Articles/Blog): the go-to destination for opinion, analysis, and insights into the entire online video ecosystem


This newsletter is published by Information Today, Inc.
Editor: Brandi Scardilli
Website: http://www.infotoday.com/NewsLink
Email: bscardilli@infotoday.com