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eBook evolutioneBook evolution

Gillian Harrison, BCRICOLC April 2008San Francisco, CA

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What is an eBook really?

• Device or Content

• Online or Offline

• Entire book or snippet

• Purchase or subscription

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Back to the beginning?

• Free – Project Gutenberg, Alex Catalogue

• Aggregators – NetLibrary, ebrary, Questia, Books 24x7

• Publishers – Safari, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Elsevier

• “Free” – Google, Microsoft

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Still fighting the format war…

• Word

• HTML

• Mobipocket

• Microsoft Reader (LIT)

• Adobe (PDF)

• Etc. etc. etc.

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Still fighting the platform war…

• Aggregators (NetLibrary, ebrary, OverDrive, EBL, MyiLibrary)

• Publishers (Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer)

• Devices (Sony, Amazon Kindle)

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And the access, pricing, packaging, licensing wars…

• One book/one user vs. unlimited

• Purchase vs. subscription

• Annual vs. perpetual

• Individual titles vs. packages

• Frontlist vs. backlist

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So, what is new?

• Ability to load content onto platform

• Ubiquitous MARCs

• “Previews” before purchase

• Integrated purchasing/acquisition

• Other digital content (eAudio, eVideo, etc. on the platform)

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Morning Lineup

• CIC & Ingram/Springer (Kim Armstrong)

• OCUL & ebrary (Faye Abrams & Warren Holder)

• SCELC & aggregators (Rick Burke)

• OhioLink & publishers (Tom Sanville)

• eBook Readers (Arnold Hirshon)

• Discussion