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Ebooks?

Ebooks?. John Akeroyd Milano March 7 th 2005. Ebook Readers. Ebook Collections. Subject Collections Safari, Books 24x7 Publisher Collections Taylor and Francis, John Wiley Aggregators NetLibrary 82,000 vol EBL Questia 50,000 books

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Ebooks?

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  1. Ebooks? John Akeroyd Milano March 7th 2005

  2. Ebook Readers

  3. Ebook Collections • Subject Collections • Safari, Books 24x7 • Publisher Collections • Taylor and Francis, John Wiley • Aggregators • NetLibrary 82,000 vol • EBL • Questia 50,000 books • 400,000 articles • Ebrary

  4. Pricing Models • Subscription models • Library lending models • Consortial deals • Marketing to end users ie students • Archival rights

  5. What do users want? • 24/7 availability • Easily refernced and bookmarked • Downloadable • Collections/titles can be easily searched • Integrated into work patterns/catalogues/essays etc

  6. Benefits for Libraries • Easier title management • Lower space needs • Lower handling costs eg processing • Speed of acquisition • Improved management information

  7. What Libraries Need • Discovery ( Marc cataloging records, linking) • Title page and bibliographic information • Title substitution in collections • Coordinated decision-making between print & electronic editions for new monographs • Provide usage statistics • Loanable • Downloadable to the hardware device of choice • Segmentable

  8. What libraries don’t need. • High Levels of duplication • Effort in selection

  9. Promotion and Uptake • Individual titles in reading lists versus • Corpus of titles • New Generation of ebooks

  10. Criteria for Success • Library chooses content (within available universe) • Content is aggregated: • Single interface for critical mass of content • Full text searches across multiple resources • Provider adds value: • Embedded dictionaries, authoring tools, linking • Multiple simultaneous users – remote access • Interactivity – discipline specific • Multi-media (digital audio, video, mapping, MLEs) • Content is “consulted” not read

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