Ebooks?Ebooks?
John Akeroyd
Milano March 7th 2005
Ebook Readers
Ebook CollectionsEbook 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
Pricing ModelsPricing Models Subscription models Library lending models Consortial deals Marketing to end users ie students Archival rights
What do users want?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
Benefits for LibrariesBenefits for LibrariesEasier title managementLower space needsLower handling costs eg processingSpeed of acquisitionImproved management information
What Libraries Need What Libraries Need Discovery ( Marc cataloging records, linking)Title page and bibliographic information Title substitution in collectionsCoordinated decision-making between print &
electronic editions for new monographsProvide usage statisticsLoanableDownloadable to the hardware device of choiceSegmentable
What libraries don’t What libraries don’t need.need.
High Levels of duplicationEffort in selection
Promotion and UptakePromotion and Uptake
Individual titles in reading lists versus Corpus of titles New Generation of ebooks
Criteria for SuccessCriteria 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