Crap. That can’t be right. I
probably have his name
wrong, Can’t remember
the title...

I wonder if the library has
that new Mark Kurlansky
as an eBook...

eBook vendors like Overdrive or Baker and Taylor create separate “storeronts” or
microsites or library eBooks, separating them rom the rest o the collection or
making a user experience that doesn’t blend with the rest o the site.

Public library inormation retrieval and Web site design is still catching up with commercial experiences designed or discovery. Library systems oten ail when people don’t know exactly what they’re looking or.

People commonly deer to other resources or browsing and discovery and do only
known-item searching on library Web sites. But i they are already looking elsewhere
or inspiration and ease o use, why not take advantage o that?

BookServer, a project o the Internet Archive, could be used or libraries to pool
descriptive inormation about their eBook holdings and make them easily ound
across the Web. Unlike Google Books, materials aren’t centralized. Just the way you
nd them. BookServer links can include transactions like borrowing or buying.