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eBooks ng Bayan:The STII Experience in CD Publishing

by Cymbeline R. Villamin

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Magandang umaga….

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Structure of Presentation

Global Trends in ePublishing

STII in the Context of ePublishing

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Global Trends in ePublishing

Google Project since December 2004

Project Gutenberg since 1971

World eLibrary since 1996

WSIS Geneva 2003

Copyright Myths

Berne Convention of 1886

Current Technologies against Content Piracy

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Google Project

Since December 2004 until 2010

Digitizing 4.5 billion pages of some 15 million books from the collection of university libraries in Harvard, Michigan, Stanford in US, New York Public Library, and Oxford in UK

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Project Gutenberg

Michael Hart invented ebooks in 1971 and he made easily available to everyone intellectual works in the public domain, through his Project Gutenberg.

Over 15,000 plain vanilla etexts are available online for free in a format readable by both humans and machines.

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WSIS Geneva 2003

Section B 3, Paragraph 25-- facilitating access to public domain information

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Myths about Copyright

Genius can only thrive if there is copyright.

Without copyright, creators are deprived of substantial income.

Copyright exists since ancient times.

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Berne Convention of 1886

The mother of all copyright laws, created on 9 September 1886, through the initiative of French novelist and poet Victor Hugo.

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Anti-Piracy Softwares for eBooks

PDF Lox for PDF eBooks

WebPacker for HTML eBooks

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STII in the Context of ePublishing

Science eBooks Project 2003 / TimeLine

Contents

Impact on Readers

Lessons Learned

Future Directions

Recommendations

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STII eBooks Milestones

July 2004 - Ayala Foundation Inc. uploaded the contents of all STII eBooks into the servers of selected Youth Tech public high schools; 66 in Luzon and NCR, 40 in the Visayas, and 7 in Mindanao.

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STII eBooks Milestones cont’d.

Sept 2004 - Dr. Tom Murray of Lynchburg College in Virginia donated copies of Microsoft tutorials he authored and several original, licensed Microsoft softwares.

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STII eBooks Milestones cont’d.

August 2005 - The STII eBooks 2005 Library Edition, an all-in-one CD was launched, priced at only P 80 exclusively for librarians and teachers.

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STII eBooks Milestones cont’d.

August 2005 - Original Microsoft Tutorials CDs by Dr. Tom Murray were donated to six schools.

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Future Directions The Librarian as Research Coach

Digitization of DOST original researches

Protection of Scientists’ Intellectual Property Rights

Adaption of the Creative Commons paradigm

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Recommendations

Study of the level of ICT literacy among Philippine publishers

Promote availability of content-protecting softwares

Encourage paradigm shifting among Booksellers

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Why eBooks?

Cost effective

Does not require large storage space

Even the most obscure but talented writers can self-publish, resulting in the availability of a wider range of books for the reading public

To supplement traditional learning with public reading kiosks in malls and parks

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Personal Roadmap

eBooks ng Bayan: Libre! Libre!

Secret and Key for Sharing

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Website and Email

www.geocities.com/ebooks_ng_bayan

ebooks_ng_bayan@yahoo.com

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Maraming salamat po….