Ebooks: Prospects and Perspectives

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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?

Issues with ebook market

•pricing

•models for schools

•multiple formats/apps

•usage--Pew survey

•promotion

•misconceptions about availability

What’s your

issue?#il2013e

Ranking concerns

Other issues

“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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Student perspectives

Promotion

Staying informed...

Product News:No Shelf Required Blog

No Shelf Required Books

eContent Quarterly from ALA

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Carolyn FooteWestlake HS LibraryAustin Tx technolibrary@gmail.com

www.futura.edublogs.org

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