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David Rothman founded TeleRead, the oldest English-language site devoted to general news and views on e-books. He has written on the national digital library cause for publications ranging from TheAtlantic.com to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Contact info:
davidrothman@pobox.com
703.370.6540

Articles

• Ouch! Text to speech is also AWOL from THIS year's Paperwhite from Amazon — September 18, 2013
• The DPLA and the risks of gentrifying America’s public libraries — September 14, 2013
• Free ePub book shows potential of local librarians as content-providers: Whale bombings, Pearl Harbor and other stories enliven Q & A with now-dead airman — September 2, 2013
• E-Books and the Miami-Dade Library Crisis: One Way to Help Thwart the Misers — September 2, 2013
• New Version of Voice Dream: first-rate program for reading e-books aloud — July 21, 2013
• ‘High Contrast’ - a treat for Chrome-browser users in search of greater Web and Kindle accessibility — July 21, 2013
• A to-do for the American Library Association and local and state governments: Resolutions calling for a National Digital Library Endowment — June 30, 2013
• Obama speech and PTA-Amazon alliance validate LibraryCity's K-12 priorities: Now how about a national digital library endowment? — June 30, 2013
• Voice Dream e-reading app: Stellar for text to speech - and promising as a general reader — May 19, 2013
• Promising DPLA debut--but please don't confuse with a full-fledged 'public library' demo — May 4, 2013
• A national digital library endowment: More details, a FAQ, and an invitation to librarians and others to help shape the proposal — April 7, 2013
• A national digital library endowment: How America’s billionaires could be modern Carnegies for real — March 9, 2013
• Not enough library e-books to feed your new gadget properly? Well-stocked national digital library systems could help — January 19, 2013
• Google’s powerful Nexus 10 Android tablet as a library patron’s delight: The hardware and the apps that shine on it — January 5, 2013
• The risks if the DPLA won’t create a full-strength national digital library system: Setbacks for K-12, family literacy, local libraries, preservation, digital divide efforts? — December 19, 2012
• Hurricane Sandy and the national digital library issue: Could we have stopped or slowed down global warming? — November 18, 2012
• DPLA Grant: Possible Synergy Between Libraries, Schools and Newspapers — October 30, 2012
• The New Digital Public Library of America Board of Directors — September 18, 2012
• Friends of Quinn and LD OnLine: Two good Web sites illustrate need for separate national digital library systems - public and academic — August 29, 2012
• OverDrive, safeguarding classics, the Jane Austen-'Hunger Games' connection, and a few other priorities for the DPLA to ponder — August 12, 2012
• Should libraries start their own, more trustworthy Facebook? — June 17, 2012
• National Digital Library System - Early Childhood Education and Family Literacy — January 15, 2012
• Using tablet computers, e-libraries, and family literacy initiatives to encourage young children to read — December 23, 2011
• Ingenious Beta Catalog Interface - Good for Academics and Other Serious Users - in Newest Beta Sprint Video from DPLA — September 13, 2011
• Commentary - Digital Public Library of America - can it live up to its huge potential? — June 16, 2011
• Commentary: Why we need two separate digital library systems - One for academics and another for the rest of America — May 15, 2011
• A Proposal for Creating a National Digital Library System in the Public Mode — April 9, 2011