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What's more, the most sophisticated programs, which deliver detailed reports about student progress, don't share data--which means that teachers can wind up with multiple \"data dashboards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So educational technology entrepreneurs are starting to offer up a bit of help for both of these programs, according to two reports in today's \u003ca href=\"http://www.edsurge.com/\">EdSurge newsletter\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Combining data from different programs to help teachers avoid an air-traffic-control problem as they try to mix and match the tools they use.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In Mountain View, a startup nonprofit organization, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ednovo.org/\">EdNovo\u003c/a>, is doing early \"alpha\" tests of a Google-like search program for helping teachers find exactly the right digital content at the right time. 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She notes that it's not just budget cuts, but also the emotional impact of those cuts -- and of prolonged economic hardship in general -- that's affecting how schools buy and integrate technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Once it hits the papers, it’s ‘They’re closing schools and adding computers.’”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“I liken it to the situation that many companies are finding themselves in,” she says. “Even if they find themselves with some money in the bank, they're waiting longer before making any decisions about what to do with it. 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But once it hits the papers, it’s ‘They’re closing schools and adding computers.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the PTO co-president from \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-schools-faces-questions-on-value.html?pagewanted=all\">tech-rich, budget-embattled Kyrene\u003c/a> recently put it in the New York Times article, “You don’t go buy a new outfit when you don’t have enough dinner to eat.” This is recession psychology, and it has a powerful hold on the way we will fund technology in education going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These aspects of recession psychology at work speak to the current state of our “animal spirits” – the human emotions and outlooks that drive economic action. In the book \u003ca href=\"http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8967.html\">\u003cem>Animal Spirits:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, authors George Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller address “the sense of trust we have in each other, our sense of fairness in economic dealings, and our sense of the extent of corruption and bad faith.” What those animal spirits seem to need now -- if they are to be boosted in this or any other area of the economy -- are equal parts hope and hard facts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Billings’ analysis, this means that educational technology companies need to be prepared to speak to current and potential users in terms of long-term value for their investment – especially in terms of instructional and administrative efficiencies. “Some schools might choose to switch to a virtual field trip, for example” she says. “They save money on gas, buses. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Continuing our monthly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/feature/educational-apps/\">Educational Apps series\u003c/a>, a mixture of iOS, Android, and Web-based apps.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/10-awesome-apps-for-learning-about-music-nature-history-and-math/storylines/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15679\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15679\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/StoryLines.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/StoryLines.jpg 325w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/StoryLines-320x424.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>STORYLINES\u003c/strong>: The educational games-maker \u003ca href=\"http://www.root-1.com/\">Root-1\u003c/a> has released its latest app into the iTunes store this week. \u003ca href=\"http://play.storylinesapp.com/\">StoryLines\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storylines/id464977336?mt=8\">iTunes\u003c/a>) is a bit like the game of \"Telephone.\" Players are given a sentence or phrase to illustrate using the touchscreen on the iPad. 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Text messaging you with a weather forecast. \"ifttt\" stands for \"If This, Then That\" -- the conditional thinking that's fundamental in programming. ifttt lets you create tasks, triggered when a certain thing take place. Set up the trigger; choose the resulting action. The tool can be used \u003c!--more-->to help students think about programming and computational thinking; but it's also a smart little tool for helping automate your own Web processes. (Free, Web)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>TONARA\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://tonara.com/\">Tonara\u003c/a> is a new app aimed at music lovers and music students. It's described as the \"world's first interactive sheet music app.\" With Tonara, you can download sheet music and as you play, you'll be able to see your exact place on the music score. The app recognizes when you fumble -- when you miss notes or change the tempo -- and it turns the pages of the sheet music for you automatically. Tonara also lets you record and share your performances. The app is free, with a small selection of royalty-free sheet music available, and the startup plans to sell other songs soon. (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tonara/id454753605?mt=8\">iTunes\u003c/a>) (Free, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/10-awesome-apps-for-learning-about-music-nature-history-and-math/birds-america-flamingo-200-102442-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15688\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15688\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/birds-america-flamingo-200-102442-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>BIRDS OF AMERICA\u003c/strong>: John James Audubon's illustrated \u003cem>The Birds of America\u003c/em> holds the distinction of being the most expensive book ever sold. (Last year, a copy sold at auction for £7.3 million.) Only 200 sets of the book were created from Audubon's hand-painted illustrations, and just 119 are known to still exist. But the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhm.ac.uk/\">British Natural History Museum\u003c/a>, which holds two of those copies, has released the book as an iPad app for the bargain price of £9.99, with a \"digital Highlights edition\" featuring 85 illustrated plates, for £3.99. Unfortunately, the app is only available in the U.K. and Europe at this time (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/birds-of-america/id452272722?mt=11\">iTunes\u003c/a>). (£9.99, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>PAPERCUT\u003c/strong>: Describing itself as an \"enhanced reading experience,\" Papercut is a new iPad app containing three short stories from three well-known British authors: Richard Beard's 'James Joyce, EFL Teacher,' Nadifa Mohamed's 'Summer in the City' and Laura Dockrill's \"Topple\" (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/papercut-enhanced-reading/id459776726?mt=8\">iTunes\u003c/a>). These stories aren't aimed at children, although they'd probably be suitable for young adults. But as a lot of enhanced and animated e-books \u003cem>are\u003c/em> aimed at kids, it's interesting to see how the concept of enhanced e-books is applied to other forms of literature. In these short stories, different sounds and animations are triggered as readers swipe through the \"pages.\" ($5.99, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/10-awesome-apps-for-learning-about-music-nature-history-and-math/back_in_time/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15689\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15689\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/back_in_time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/back_in_time.jpg 350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/back_in_time-320x237.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>BACK IN TIME\u003c/strong>: Back in Time is an animated e-book that, as the title suggests, chronicles the history of the universe. The app takes readers through various events in history -- the extinction of the dinosaurs, for example, through to the foundations of human civilizations. The app uses a 24-hour clock as an analogy to help readers grasp time -- the dinosaurs' extinction occurred seven minutes ago, and Homo sapiens have been in existence for a little under a second. (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/back-in-time/id450345693?mt=8&uo=4\">iTunes\u003c/a>) ($7.99, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>METEOR MATH\u003c/strong>: Meteor Math is the latest app by educational app maker \u003ca href=\"http://mindshapes.com/\">Mindshapes\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meteor-math/id458612541?mt=8\">iTunes\u003c/a>). It's a blend of classic video arcade game play and math drills in multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division. As you level up, the game becomes increasingly challenging, both in terms of your math knowledge and your spaceship skills. ($2.99, iPhone/iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/10-awesome-apps-for-learning-about-music-nature-history-and-math/bobo-explores-light-3-520x390/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15700\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15700\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/bobo-explores-light-3-520x390-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>BOBO EXPLORES LIGHT\u003c/strong>: Bobo Explores Light is an interactive iPad app that helps explain scientific concepts about light (\u003ca>iTunes\u003c/a>). The app is wonderfully animated and the content is engaging and rigorous, covering a fairly expansive range of topics. These include, for example, how mirages, reflection, refraction, lasers, photosynthesis, and telescopes all work. Users are guided through the app by a robot named Bobo and the app allows users to interact with the animations and virtual experiments, including manipulating holograms ($6.99, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>MAGIC OF REALITY\u003c/strong>: Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' latest book \u003cem>The Magic of Reality\u003c/em> is now available as an interactive app for the iPad (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-magic-of-reality/id461771375?mt=8\">iTunes\u003c/a>). The app contains the full text of the book, as well as illustrations, audio, and animations -- all of which are aimed to engage the reader in thinking through some of the scientific questions that Dawkins examines. Dawkins' explanations are simple and engaging enough for children, but the book is likely to be enjoyable by adults as well. ($13.99, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/10-awesome-apps-for-learning-about-music-nature-history-and-math/glitch/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15701\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15701\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/glitch-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>GLITCH\u003c/strong>: I can't really come up with a particular area of the curriculum that \u003ca href=\"http://glitch.com\">Glitch\u003c/a> supports, and perhaps it's a stretch here to even include it as an educational app. But the game, with its official release just this week, is simply beautiful and I think it offers an interesting entry point for those parents looking for a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG) for kids that doesn't involve killing things. MMOs can, of course, teach digital citizenship and cooperation, as well as promote imaginative play. Glitch is the first game released by \u003ca href=\"http://tinyspeck.com\">Tiny Speck\u003c/a>, the latest project of \u003ca href=\"http://flickr.com\">Flickr\u003c/a> co-founder Stewart Butterfield. A free, Web-based game, Glitch describes itself as set \"inside the minds of eleven peculiarly imaginative Giants. You choose how to grow and shape the world: building and developing, learning new skills, collaborating or competing with everyone else in one enormous, ever-changing, persistent world.\" (Free, Web)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Continuing our monthly \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/feature/educational-apps/\">Educational Apps series\u003c/a>, a mixture of iOS, Android, and Web-based apps.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/10-awesome-apps-for-learning-about-music-nature-history-and-math/storylines/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15679\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15679\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/StoryLines.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/StoryLines.jpg 325w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/StoryLines-320x424.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\">\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>STORYLINES\u003c/strong>: The educational games-maker \u003ca href=\"http://www.root-1.com/\">Root-1\u003c/a> has released its latest app into the iTunes store this week. \u003ca href=\"http://play.storylinesapp.com/\">StoryLines\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storylines/id464977336?mt=8\">iTunes\u003c/a>) is a bit like the game of \"Telephone.\" Players are given a sentence or phrase to illustrate using the touchscreen on the iPad. That illustration is given to the next person, who writes a sentence, captioning the drawing. You can determine how many \"links\" in the story you'd like to see, and when you're done, Storyline replays the illustration and writing process. The tool could be an interesting way to get students thinking about the meanings of words and phrases and about illustration and interpretation, as well as a good launching point for creative writing exercises. (Free, iPad/Web)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>IFTTT\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://ifttt.com/\">ifttt\u003c/a> is a new website that lets you hook up and automate some of the most popular Web 2.0 services -- sending your Instagram photos to Dropbox, for example. Sending starred items from your Google Reader to Instapaper. Sending Tweets to Evernote. Posting an RSS feed to your Facebook Page. Text messaging you with a weather forecast. \"ifttt\" stands for \"If This, Then That\" -- the conditional thinking that's fundamental in programming. ifttt lets you create tasks, triggered when a certain thing take place. Set up the trigger; choose the resulting action. The tool can be used \u003c!--more-->to help students think about programming and computational thinking; but it's also a smart little tool for helping automate your own Web processes. (Free, Web)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>TONARA\u003c/strong>: \u003ca href=\"http://tonara.com/\">Tonara\u003c/a> is a new app aimed at music lovers and music students. It's described as the \"world's first interactive sheet music app.\" With Tonara, you can download sheet music and as you play, you'll be able to see your exact place on the music score. The app recognizes when you fumble -- when you miss notes or change the tempo -- and it turns the pages of the sheet music for you automatically. Tonara also lets you record and share your performances. The app is free, with a small selection of royalty-free sheet music available, and the startup plans to sell other songs soon. (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tonara/id454753605?mt=8\">iTunes\u003c/a>) (Free, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/10-awesome-apps-for-learning-about-music-nature-history-and-math/birds-america-flamingo-200-102442-1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15688\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15688\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/birds-america-flamingo-200-102442-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>BIRDS OF AMERICA\u003c/strong>: John James Audubon's illustrated \u003cem>The Birds of America\u003c/em> holds the distinction of being the most expensive book ever sold. (Last year, a copy sold at auction for £7.3 million.) Only 200 sets of the book were created from Audubon's hand-painted illustrations, and just 119 are known to still exist. But the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhm.ac.uk/\">British Natural History Museum\u003c/a>, which holds two of those copies, has released the book as an iPad app for the bargain price of £9.99, with a \"digital Highlights edition\" featuring 85 illustrated plates, for £3.99. Unfortunately, the app is only available in the U.K. and Europe at this time (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/birds-of-america/id452272722?mt=11\">iTunes\u003c/a>). (£9.99, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>PAPERCUT\u003c/strong>: Describing itself as an \"enhanced reading experience,\" Papercut is a new iPad app containing three short stories from three well-known British authors: Richard Beard's 'James Joyce, EFL Teacher,' Nadifa Mohamed's 'Summer in the City' and Laura Dockrill's \"Topple\" (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/papercut-enhanced-reading/id459776726?mt=8\">iTunes\u003c/a>). These stories aren't aimed at children, although they'd probably be suitable for young adults. But as a lot of enhanced and animated e-books \u003cem>are\u003c/em> aimed at kids, it's interesting to see how the concept of enhanced e-books is applied to other forms of literature. In these short stories, different sounds and animations are triggered as readers swipe through the \"pages.\" ($5.99, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/09/10-awesome-apps-for-learning-about-music-nature-history-and-math/back_in_time/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15689\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15689\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/back_in_time.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/back_in_time.jpg 350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/back_in_time-320x237.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>BACK IN TIME\u003c/strong>: Back in Time is an animated e-book that, as the title suggests, chronicles the history of the universe. The app takes readers through various events in history -- the extinction of the dinosaurs, for example, through to the foundations of human civilizations. The app uses a 24-hour clock as an analogy to help readers grasp time -- the dinosaurs' extinction occurred seven minutes ago, and Homo sapiens have been in existence for a little under a second. (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/back-in-time/id450345693?mt=8&uo=4\">iTunes\u003c/a>) ($7.99, iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>METEOR MATH\u003c/strong>: Meteor Math is the latest app by educational app maker \u003ca href=\"http://mindshapes.com/\">Mindshapes\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meteor-math/id458612541?mt=8\">iTunes\u003c/a>). It's a blend of classic video arcade game play and math drills in multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division. As you level up, the game becomes increasingly challenging, both in terms of your math knowledge and your spaceship skills. ($2.99, iPhone/iPad)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"module image alignleft mceTemp\" style=\"width: 350px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/12/05/teddy-bears-in-space-amazing-picture-115875-20946478/\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-15638\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/teddy_space.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/teddy_space.jpg 350w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/23/2011/09/teddy_space-320x278.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\">\u003c/a>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-media-credit\">Teddy bears in space, via Mirror UK\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>With the end of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html\">U.S. Space Shuttle\u003c/a> program this summer, there's been a lot of talk about the future of manned space exploration. As the name \"shuttle\" would suggest, the Space Shuttle program was supposed to mark the beginning of space missions that were more regular and less expensive, an opportunity for both scientific and commercial space travel. But now that the program has ended, we've lost what has been, arguably, one of the more glamorous occupations that could entice students into thinking about a future career in space exploration: the job of space shuttle astronaut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as \u003ca href=\"http://spacehack.org\">Spacehack\u003c/a>'s Ariel Waldman is quick to point out, we might be placing too much emphasis on the \"astronaut\" when we think about the possibilities of exploring space. After all, after 50 some-odd years of space missions, humans have only sent 500 people into space. 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Sales of e-books rose 167% in June, reports \u003ca href=\"http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/48646-e-book-sales-jump-in-june-print-plunges.html\">Publishers Weekly\u003c/a>, with sales totaling $473.8 million for the first half of the year. But sales of print books -- both paperbacks and hardcovers -- continues to decline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn't just publishers that are scrambling to adjust their business models to the growing demand for e-books; so too are libraries having to reconsider how they will provide content for their patrons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though there's keen interest on the part of library patrons to check out e-books, making a move to digital loans is not going to be easy. That's true for all libraries, but it's especially true for school libraries, many of which already face budget woes and as such, have to weigh carefully how to invest in new books to stock the shelves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">What might be good news for consumers -- your whole library on your cellphone, for example -- might be terrible news for libraries.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are lots of considerations libraries must make: which e-reader(s) will they adopt? After all, e-readers are tied to their associated bookstores: Kindle to Amazon, Nook to Barnes & Noble, iPad to iBooks (even though the latter does offer apps for the other e-readers). The e-readers not only \u003c!--more-->have different features (black-and-white screens versus color, for example, touchscreens versus keypads) but their bookstores offer different selections. 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That decision caused \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je90XRRrruM\">outrage\u003c/a> on the part of librarians and patrons, and it highlighted that the new world of e-books: What might be good news for consumers -- your whole library on your cellphone, for example -- might be terrible news for libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carolyn Foote, a librarian at Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, says that she thinks about the new licensing rules less in terms of ownership and more in terms of subscriptions. Librarians are already familiar with this model when it comes to access to magazines, newspapers, and databases. Her school invested in Kindles last year and has opted to purchase iPads this year. 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