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E-books: Is Collecting Vinyl Appropriate in the 21st Century ?

E-books: Is Collecting Vinyl Appropriate in the 21st Century ?. Scott Meiser Senior Director, Research Information The PLL Summit 21 July 2012. Are eBooks “vinyl”? Was “vinyl” bad?. If you’d said Betamax…. An extremely abridged history of recorded music.

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E-books: Is Collecting Vinyl Appropriate in the 21st Century ?

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  1. E-books: Is Collecting Vinyl Appropriate in the 21st Century? Scott Meiser Senior Director, Research Information The PLL Summit 21 July 2012

  2. Are eBooks “vinyl”? Was “vinyl” bad? If you’d said Betamax…. An extremely abridged history of recorded music An extremely abridged history of the book What survives – ePUB, Kindle or something else? Do you remember all of the competing recording formats for Digital Music? Do you remember all of the record speeds? We are on a path to somewhere, but we always are. Is this stop worth making?

  3. The train is pulling into the station(signs say “yes”, the stop is worth making) Most U.S. College Students Now Prefer Digital Reading Source: http://paidcontent.org/; Pearson survey –College students prefer digital over print for “fun” reading (57 percent) and textbook reading (58 percent), “a reversal from last year, when more students preferred print over digital.” Source: AAP survey (2010) E-Book Revenue Continues Growth Across Trade in March, Children’s Still Surging Source: Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World E-book revenue in March across adult, children and young adult and religious titles was up nearly 50…Overall, revenue in the book trade was down in the March 2012 versus March 2011.

  4. But what about the Legal Market? On a scale of 1 – 5, 5 being the most desirable, what content would you use in eBook? We expected that… …but how did that happen??? …And why are they different? Source: LexisNexis research (2011)

  5. Where do I start adding eBooks to my collection?

  6. Questions? More about LexisNexis eBooks and the Digital Library • http://www.lexisnexis.com/ebooks/ • http://www.lexisnexis.com/ebooks/lending/ • eBooks@lexisnexis.com Thank you

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