Ebooks?

1. Ebooks? John Akeroyd Milano March 7th 2005

3. Ebook Readers

4. 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

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

6. 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

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

8. 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

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

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

12. 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