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