Ebook Library Blog

EBL  will be holding our annual user group luncheon at ALA Annual in Anaheim and would like to invite you to participate.   The meeting will be held from 12 PM – 1:45PM on Friday, June 22nd at the Sheraton Park Hotel, conveniently located across from the Anaheim Convention Center.

Attendees will hear about EBL’s recent and planned developments and have the opportunity to share feedback and ideas on our features, access models, future development and content.

Space is limited so please be sure to RSVP by May 25th, using the link below:

Sign-up for EBL User Group @ ALA

If you are unable to attend, sign up with us to receive presentation and notes from the session.  Feel free to contact us directly with feedback or stop by our booth at ALA (Booth 1361).

This month, Spinifex Press and Southern Illinois University Press signed with Ebook Library.

For EBL’s full publisher list, please click here.

Swiss libraries can now authentication to EBL through the SWITCHaai Federation.  SWITCH provide seamless Single Sign-On access to participating vendors.  Swiss libraries who use SWITCHaai will now be able to use this authentication protocol to seamlessly access EBL  Libraries wishing to know more about this option should contact us at info@eblib.com.

We added 10 new publishers to our expanding publisher list last month.  Our newest publishers include:

• New York University Press
• Morgan & Claypool
• Future Medicine
• Business Expert Press
• Momentum Press
• Urban Institute Press
• TFH Publications
• First Edition Design eBook Publishing
• Brainy Software
• The Professional and Higher Partnership

Visit EBL Choice, our public catalogue to view our full list of titles.

During February 2012, EBL added the following 2365 titles to its catalogue.  If you would like to receive a monthly email alert of new titles added to EBL, please sign up here. If you are interested in a trial of the EBL platform, please sign up here.

• Agriculture (34)
• Architecture (12)
• Business & Management (285)
• Computer Science / IT (55)
• Education (61)
• Engineering (167)
• Engineering: Chemical (23)
• Engineering: Civil (25)
• Engineering: Construction (10)
• Engineering: Electrical (53)
• Engineering: Environmental (13)
• Engineering: Manufacturing (9)
• Engineering: Mechanical (14)
• Engineering: Mining (9)
• Environmental Studies (39)
• Fiction (104)
• Fine Arts (182)
• General Works / Reference (13)
• Geography / Travel (49)
• Health (68)
• History (228)
• Home Economics (33)
• Journalism (11)
• Language / Linguistics (60)
• Law (71)
• Library Science (4)
• Literature (260)
• Mathematics (54)
• Medicine (254)
• Military Science (19)
• Museums (1)
• Nursing (6)
• Pharmacy (30)
• Philosophy (77)
• Political Science (109)
• Psychology (59)
• Religion (85)
• Science (375)
• Science: Anatomy / Physiology (50)
• Science: Astronomy (18)
• Science: Biology / Natural History (168)
• Science: Botany (10)
• Science: Chemistry (45)
• Science: Geology (35)
• Science: Physics (51)
• Science: Zoology (47)
• Social Science (346)
• Sport & Recreation (66)
• Tourism & Hospitality (4)

We’re pleased to announce that 450 titles from New York University Press were added to EBL last week. New York University Press is a publisher primarily of academic books and is a department of the New York University Division of Libraries. NYU Press publishes in the humanities and social sciences, with emphasis on sociology, law, cultural and American studies, religion, American history, anthropology, politics, criminology, media and film, and psychology. The Press also publishes books on New York regional history, politics, and culture.

No wires attached…

In addition to the ipad, iphone, Android devices and hundreds of ebook readers, EBL ebooks can be downloaded directly to the Kindle Fire via the free Bluefire Reader app (BFR) – in just three easy steps:

1. Patrons using a Kindle Fire reader can access EBL via the browser, and our system will recognise that they’re using a Kindle Fire.

2. For patrons without BFR already installed, we automatically link them to the Bluefire instructions for download and install the app on the Kindle Fire. (Note that there is a simple setting change required on the device to enable the app to be installed)

3. Once the app is installed and authorised, the patron need only click ‘download’ on EBL for the book to download and open inside BFR.

If they’d prefer, patrons can also transfer downloaded content from their PC to the device via Adobe Digital Editions.   And of course our online reader can be used for reading books in the browser on the Kindle as well.

EBL has added 15 new publishers over the past few months, including a number of Swiss publishers.  Please see full list below:

• SPIE – the International Society for Optics and Photonics
• Edwin Mellen Press
• M&K Update
• Kid Brilliance 
• Brunnen Verlag
• Nachtschatten Verlag
• Beobachter-Buchverlag
• DieBirne Verlag
• Vier-Augen-Verlag
• Zytglogge Verlag
• AAP Verlag
• Bergli Books
• C.F. Portmann Verlag
• Edition Moderne
• Cosmos Verlag

 Click here to view all our publishers.

EBL is pleased to announce a number of great deals on ebook collections from Edward Elgar; covering Economics, Business and Management, Law, Public and Social Policy, Environmental and Ecological Economics and Technology and Innovation Policy.

Save 40% off list price when you order any subject collection (spanning all years through 2011), or buy all 6 collections and receive 50% off*: 

Business and Management (326 titles) – View list

Economics (520 titles) – View list

Environmental and Ecological Economics (326 titles) – View list

Technology and Innovation Policy (68 titles) – View list

Law (238 titles) – View list

Public and Social Policy (130 titles) – View list

* Click here for a breakdown of all savings

Save 30% off list price when you purchase the entire Edward Elgar 2011 ebook collection:

View 2011 ebook collection (280 titles)

Titles purchased under this special deals offer perpetual access and EBL’s flexible Non-linear Lending model.  EBL can de-duplicate titles, up to 40% of the list, for Libraries who have already purchased portions of these subject collections.   Anyone interested in purchasing any of these collections should contact EBL.