Post on 06-May-2015
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Ebooks: Prospects and Perspectives
Internet @ Schools
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Carolyn Foote, Westlake HS
I thought you saidboots!
Where’s my
ipod?
TextWe
prefer NapsterText
Positives
What’s good about
ebooks?
Access 24/7 Features Free Audio
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Student perspectives
Issues with ebook market• ease of use/too many access points
• interest in use
• pricing
• models for schools
• multiple formats/apps
• promotion
• misconceptions about availability
What’s your
issue?#il2013e
Ranking concerns
Promotion and findability
And what about...
“In my district, budgets are not adjusted to the price of ebooks. We get the same amount of money, without the consideration of the cost. We need to have discussions at the district & campus levels (where the money comes from) so those who make those decisions see the ebook issues and price discrepancies.
We (school librarians) are expected to purchase ebooks for the classrooms & for pleasure reading by students, but we are not given the appropriate funds to do so.”
Slumgullion Bookmobile (Montana)
These books are mobile!
Purpose driven
Devices
Nooks
iPads
Kindles
iPhones
ABC-ClioBig UniverseCapstoneStarWalk Kids Media Tumblebooks
Multi-use, Subscription based
AbdoLernerRosen InteractiveRourkeStoria (Scholastic)
Individual ebooks--by imprint
Individual purchase--book jobbers
Follett
MackinVIA
Axis360
Follett Shelf
Mackin VIA
Overdrive
Annual Subscription/Choose
Titles
Patron Driven models
Brain Hive
Ebsco (college level)
Ebsco
Ebrary
Gale Marshall Cavendish/Sharp
Database-esque
Free
Project Gutenberg (copyright free)
Audiovox
ICDL (International Children’s Digital Library)
iBooks author
free is good!
Enhancing the book
Subtext (in text notations)
Gobstopper (in text notations)
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Leisure suits are #trending
growthSlide from:
http://pewinternet.org/Presentations/2012/Oct/Libraries-Transformed.aspx
usageSlide from: http://pewinternet.org/Presentations/2012/Oct/Libraries-Transformed.aspx
Industry trendsWorse terms from publishers/increased prices
Improved terms from publishers
Ability to purchase temporary access multi-use titles Ingram myILibrary
Self-publishing rapidly increasing
Choice--Design and print your own book of collected articles/chapters -- DeGruyter Select
formats matter!
and more trends...
Patron Driven Acquisition--Ebsco, BrainHive
Multi-user options increasing
Streaming audio and video(Overdrive)
Apps for in-text communication(Subtext/Gobstopper)
Librarians speak
• “We want multi-user access and a single platform for access.”
• “If you don’t take my print books off the shelf after 26 checkouts or 12 months, why do you feel justified in taking my ebooks away?”
• School libraries and public libraries are very different entities. Our loan models and access is very different. When the Big five or Big six publishers are making their prices and lending models for the adult book reader, they need to consider students and schools.
• “It should be as easy for students to check out fiction (ebooks) as it is for them to use our nonfiction (ebook) collection.”
• “Students need really easy interfaces and don’t want to have to click through multiple portals.”
We want
better!
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Staying informed...
No Shelf Required Blog
No Shelf Required Books
eContent Quarterly from ALA
SLJ Marketplacehttp://tinyurl.com/sljmarket
Internet @ Schools
Digital Readerwww.the-digital-reader.com
find me here:
Carolyn FooteWestlake HS LibraryAustin Tx technolibrary@gmail.com
www.futura.edublogs.org
@technolibrary