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eBooks MN Free Posters

Steve's Birthday PartyeBooks MN has gone live, and the people who know about it are pretty excited! Now it is time for promotion! Are your library users aware of this free, new statewide resource? No?

The folks at Minitex are offering various items to promote Ebooks Minnesota at your library. Check out these neat-o, easy-to-print, 11×17, color posters. There are 13 in all! Check it out now before you forget.

Each poster highlights either a general subject area or book series for your readers.

Pssssttt: At our upcoming May 5th event, a Minitex trainer will be doing a live demo of eBooks MN. Click here for more detail about the event including registration.

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Just How Big Are the Big Six?

MoneyLeave it to James LaRue to put things in perspective for us regarding the monetary power of the big publishers. In the past couple of years with pricing struggles with the Big Six (Five now), is it possible that in our minds they have gotten bigger than they really are? Very possibly. When we consider that Amazon alone has more capital than the Big Six combined, we have reason to take pause.

See LaRue’s post to view a table of annual sales of first the top five US publishers, then the annual revenues of the Big Six. The data was extracted from the following report that LaRue endorses for every library Board packet.

The report is Exploring Connections: Independent Publishers and Research Libraries,’ by Amy Ballmer, Albert Municino, Judith Schwartz, and Robert Weiss for the Metropolitan New York Library Council.

This idea of working more closely with independent publishers and research libraries for eContent was a topic of conversation recently at the Explore eBooks MN Summit event. No time to attend? Hear the speakers and view the results of facilitated conversations here.

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