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  2893 readersFrom The Digital Shift: Libraries across the U.S. are this week launching a digital magazine newsstand being offered by Recorded Books (RB) and Zinio. The service allows libraries to build their own magazine collection from a portfolio of about 4000 digital titles that RB and Zino are offering. Multiple patrons can read the same title

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  Smug about OverDrive? A whopping 39 percent of U.S. public libraries don’t offer downloadable e-books.

  1121 readersHundreds and hundreds of visitors have read LibraryCity‘sproposal for the sale of OverDrive to public libraries or a related nonprofit. The idea drew favorable reaction fromThad McIlroy, a prominent publishing consultant, and it even made an ALA newsletterand Reddit. Still not convinced of the possibilities? Well, consider that 39 percent of U.S. public libraries don’t offer downloadable e-books. Check it out for

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  Smug about OverDrive? A whopping 39 percent of U.S. public libraries don’t offer downloadable e-books.

  765 readersHundreds and hundreds of visitors have read LibraryCity‘sproposal for the sale of OverDrive to public libraries or a related nonprofit. The idea drew favorable reaction fromThad McIlroy, a prominent publishing consultant, and it even made an ALA newsletterand Reddit. Still not convinced of the possibilities? Well, consider that 39 percent of U.S. public libraries don’t offer downloadable e-books. Check it out for

• Morning Brief: Conrad Black, faces resentencing hearing in Chicago; Recorded Books to bring Zinio’s digital newsstand to libraries in U.S., Canada, Australia & U.K.

  2104 readersA U.S. District Judge will today conduct a resentencing hearing today in Chicago for the former head of Hollinger Inc., Conrad Black. For Black it could mean a return to jail following his conviction for fraud and obstruction of justice, or it freedom based on time served. The Chicago Sun-Times, at one time part of Black's