Wonderful News! March is now Read an E-book Month in Canada.

During the 41st sitting of Parliament a motion was passed which proclaimed the month of March as Read an E-book Month. Wouldn't it be nice if we could have the U.S. join in and have a North American E-book Month?

Join us March 4-10, 2012 for our next Read an E-Book Week extravaganza.

E-BOOKS TURNED 40! That's right - 2011 marked forty years since Michael S. Hart created the first "e-book". For a more in-depth look at the history of e-books please see our web page.

With the advent of e-books, e-book libraries were needed. Enter Mr. Hart, once again, with Project Gutenberg.

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While on our site, make sure you check out the articles section.

The list of e-book readers continues to grow, and new technologies—thanks to E Ink— make these devices more durable and easier to read in all lighting situations.
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A CHALLENGE! Last year several E-Book Week participants sat in their favorite coffee shop for a few hours with a sign that said "Ask me about e-books". They had either an e-reader or other device for reading e-books and showed it to anyone who was interested. "It was a lot of fun!" we were told. Why not try it yourself this year? Take a photo and send it to us and we'll post it. Maybe we'll get enough images to make a collage!

Or, go to our Read an E-Book Week promotion page and choose ONE thing to do to during Read an E-Book Week to help promote e-books to your community!

Most downloaded eBooks from the library. Learn more...

Nicholas Hirst, discusses the fate of the paper book. Learn more...  

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Colour screens on e-readers.
2012 will be the year for colour screens on e-books. Amazon will have the Fire, Kobo the Vox and Barnes & Noble the Nook. The e-reader's grip on fiction will soon be giving way to children's books, comics and graphic novels, cookbooks and travel titles.

Interactive books that respond to screen taps and include sound, and animation aren't far behind.

E-Book Market Exploding, Says IDPF Survey - The ebook market is growing faster as it grows larger.
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