Ebooks

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Ebooks?

• John Akeroyd
• Milano March 7th 2005

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Ebook Readers
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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

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Pricing Models

• Subscription models
• Library lending models
• Consortial deals
• Marketing to end users ie students
• Archival rights

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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

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Benefits for Libraries

• Easier title management
• Lower space needs
• Lower handling costs eg processing
• Speed of acquisition
• Improved management information

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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

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What libraries dont need.

• High Levels of duplication
• Effort in selection

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Promotion and Uptake

• Individual titles in reading lists versus
• Corpus of titles
• New Generation of ebooks

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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