Call Me Old Fashioned

Common Expectations for E-Book Publishers or E-book Aggregators

in a Consortium Context

Or…Why OhioLINK Has Focused on Direct

Deals with Publishers

Lessons from E-Journals• There is only 1 budget regardless of format – cannot

afford to buy things twice• Prices and terms must reflect needs for access,

archiving, preservation, etc. • Group purchase must reflect dramatic increase in

content/access per dollar spent• Group purchase must strategically fit with physical R

Sharing system• Translation – O-S-F-A group purchase must be a

Strategic Purchase

– yes a Big Deal !

Problems with Aggregators and Some Publishers – so far

• Not always the new titles

• No predictability

• Not comprehensive

• Sold separately from print

• No DDP option for print

• Bad O-S-F-A Consortium pricing models

• Limits on use – bad terms

• No Local Load on separate platform

• Could not use their platform with separate deals

Success with Some Publishers – so far

• Comprehensive and predictable title collection scope

• Can separate and define old from new

• Problem – why is it OK to get back files years free with e-journals and not with e-books?

• Pricing based on historical group annual spending and unit averages

• DDP prices via direct/primary book vendor

• Can locally load with necessary rights

OhioLINK Status• ABC-CLIO Reference

• Oxford OSO – 13 disciplines now + 2 more

• Oxford DRS

• Sage Reference

• Gale VRS – their controlled imprints

• Springer

• Wiley/Blackwell

• Elsevier

• And others…

And finally – a quiz

• Name the Book Publisher with these e-book terms

• Has anyone agreed to these terms?

Members and their Patrons:• May not move the file to more than three additional

devices (for a total of four devices). • Subject to the limited copy/paste permission, may

not copy the eBook • May not copy/paste more than 5% of the content of

the eBook • May not print more than 30% of the pages of the

eBook in any rolling 30-day period • May not print or cut and paste any material from

the eBook without a watermark or other statement that indicates the material is protected by copyright