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EBSCO Enhances Visual Searching
via Library Journal News by (author unknown) on January 27, 2008
The EBSCOhost interface has gotten a face-lift thanks to new “Visual Search options and additional clusters,” designed to expedite searching.
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Book News: Random House Testing Single Chapter Esales
via Library Journal News by (author unknown) on February 11, 2008
Random House President Gina Centrello announced February 11 that the Goliath publisher is initiating a pilot project “to sell individual chapters” of Chip and Dan Heath’s Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die online.
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InfoTech: ProQuest Buys WebFeat
via Library Journal News by (author unknown) on February 13, 2008
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OverDrive Breaks the iPod Barrier for Downloadable Audio
via Library Journal News by (author unknown) on March 18, 2008
For years, librarians and patrons have complained that the most popular digital audio player, the iPod, is incompatible with the Windows Media Audio (WMA) files, the format for library downloadable audio titles. Now OverDrive will offer at least 3000 titles—about 15 percent of its catalog—in MP3 format, which means compatibility with nearly every MP3 player and mobile phone, including iPods.
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