Apparently, Library of America readers are less impulsive in their tastes.
Newcastle's arching Tyne Bridge, Liverpool's modernist Philharmonic Hall and the classical rotunda of Manchester's central library, which held 300 readers in what was then the country's biggest reading room outside the British Library in London, were all products of the civic and, in some cases, philanthropic determination of local leaders.
So the idea, of course, is to charge those readers for access to the library.
Under the settlement agreement, the library will not acquire any additional e-readers for patron use that exclude persons who are blind or others with disabilities who need accessible features such as text-to-speech functions or the ability to access menus through audio or tactile options.
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The library has also agreed to acquire at least 18 e-readers that are accessible to persons with disabilities.
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New e-reading services, which allow readers to purchase and store books in a digital library and read them on different devices, have some of the most sophisticated reader tracking software.
Founded in 1898, the firm, with its famous Readers Guide to Periodical Literature and other high-quality library indexes, long occupied a comfortable niche: collecting, analyzing and cross-referencing published works.
Publishers fear that if readers realize they can borrow e-books for free from their local library, they might not buy them as much.
Readers are apparently quite vocal about great American writers who have yet to receive the Library of America's stamp of approval.
This blog post introduces readers to Neha Gupta, a 15-year-old from Pennsylvania who built a library for underprivileged youth.
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