eBooks and Approval Plans

1
eBooks and Approval Plans

• Rick Lugg
• R2 Consulting
• E-Books Beyond

2
The Immediate Future

• eBooks as books
• Monographs, not reference
• Monographs, not packages
• eBooks as online, limited download
• eBooks in relation to print books
• eBooks as enablers for selection
• eBooks as a very small problem

3
Todays Premises

• The eBook is well suited to approval plans,
  regardless of whether any electronic copies are
  sold.
• Selection and acquisition of monographs will
  continue to occur at the individual title level.

4
How Libraries Buy Books

• Most sales occur through vendors, not directly
  from publishers
• Approval plans
• Firm orders
• Standing orders
• Vendor Web databases
• Retrospective/Opening Day CD

5
Why Use Vendors?

• Consolidated ordering
• Single customer service contact
• Cost of going direct
• Consolidated invoicing
• Value-added services

6
Value-Added Services

• MARC Records
• Duplication control
• Edition preferences
• Electronic ordering
• Electronic invoicing
• Support for local data workflows
• Approval plans

7
Approval Plans

• Content description (Book-in-hand)
• New titles
• Fully classified described
• Extended metadata (interdisc geog)
• Non-subject parameters (format, etc.)
• Interest description
• Library/Selector profiles
• LC/DDC/Thesaurus
• Publisher Universe
• Non-subject parameters (e.g., edition)

8
Approval Plans (cont.)

• Weekly shipment or announcement of relevant new
  titles
• 40-50,000 titles per year
• Books and slips sorted by discipline/fund/selector
  
• Thousands of units shipped weekly
• 100s of Ks of announcements
• Slips
• Online (GOBI, Collection Manager, etc)
• Cataloging, processing, e-invoices

9
US Library Vendors

• Blackwells
• YBP
• Coutts
• Midwest
• Ambassador
• Franklin
• Eastern
• Book House

• Baker Taylor
• Ingram
• BWI
• Brodart

10
eBooks and Approval Plans

• eBooks should be integrated into existing print
  selection channels until critical mass is reached
• eBooks can be used to reduce costs and stimulate
  sales of print
• eBooks can provide the best evaluation tool for
  buyers, profilers, selectors
• From book-in-hand to book-in-view
• Content selection and edition choice

11
(No Transcript)
12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14
(No Transcript)
15
eBooks can be used

• To reduce returns from vendors
• To lower shipping costs
• To reduce returns from libraries
• To evaluate for approval buying
• To profile for libraries
• To create a virtual approval shelf
• To evaluate for library acquisition
• To promote other editions
• To enrich vendor databases
• To provide surrogates for cataloging

16
These eBook uses will

• Reduce costs for publishers, vendors, and
  libraries
• Improve timeliness of delivery
• Stimulate print sales
• Insert eBook selection into well-established
  procedures
• Position eBooks as one option for content
  delivery
• Seed the library eBook market
• Open the door to print-on-demand

17
Glimmers

• Ebrary Preview Service in Blackwells Collection
  Manager
• netLibrary editions in Collection Manager and
  available through many vendors
• 8,000 eBook records in YBPs GOBI (from
  Informatas ED)
• OverDrives Content Reserve

18
(No Transcript)
19
(No Transcript)
20
(No Transcript)
21
(No Transcript)
22
Whats Needed

• More content
• More frontlist
• 10-15 minute access control
• Simultaneous consideration of print electronic
  variants of content
• System support for online download to PC or PDA
• Excerpts (cover, preface, TOC)
• Start now and build
• Adapt to the market

23
Other Models

• Digital Reference (BBS initiative)
• Collections (netLibrary, ED)
• Databases (ebrary, Questia)
• Direct to Publisher Oxford Kluwer Taylor
  Francis ABC-Clio
• Multi-publisher collection with value added
  (xrefer)
• To Host or Not to Host

24
Thank you

• Rick Lugg
• R2 Consulting
• Rick_at_r2consulting.org
• www.ebookmap.net

25
(No Transcript)
26
(No Transcript)
27
(No Transcript)
28
(No Transcript)
29
(No Transcript)
30
(No Transcript)
31
(No Transcript)
32
(No Transcript)
33
(No Transcript)
34
(No Transcript)
35
(No Transcript)
36
(No Transcript)