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adrienne_mobius

Ebooks Choices and the Soul of Librarianship - 0 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 07 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 07 Aug 12
     
    This article points out that many of the values of librarianship (privacy, sharing, preservation) are in conflict with current ebook models. Ebooks are not private ("libraries can't protect data stored with third parties"), ebooks can't be shared ("people can't give their used ebooks to the library"), and ebooks can't be preserved ("we can't preserve files we can't keep"). Even access is not universal ("Does your ebook platform provide content that's compatible with all devices?").
Jennifer Parsons

The Wrong War Over eBooks: Publishers Vs. Libraries - Forbes - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 14 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • For publishers, the library will be the showroom of the future.  Ensuring that libraries have continuing access to published titles gives them a chance to meet this role, but an important obstacle remains: how eBooks are obtained by libraries.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 14 Dec 12
     
    This article is the first of a series of two. The author describes how they typical arguments on both sides of the ebook debate, from publishers and libraries, do not actually work, since they have their basis in older models of sales and library use of physical items. Since ebooks are leased, not actually sold, the author suggests a pay-by-circulation model, since it is easier to track and will be less risky for libraries. This model would have to be done carefully, or it may backfire. It certainly is more fair, but I wonder how much of the electronic publishing industry remains afloat from selling packages-- that is, large sets of ebooks that have appeal because, among their numbers, they do have high-demand titles. A pay-by-circulation model could mean that libraries can license individual titles from publishers, completely bypassing unknown ebooks that need libraries for exposure.
adrienne_mobius

New Research Finds Public Awareness Gap about Ebooks in Libraries | American Libraries ... - 0 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 13 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 13 Jul 12
     
    "A new report from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project finds that 12% of readers of ebooks borrowed an ebook from their libraries in the past year, and a majority of respondents (62%) don't know if their local library provides ebooks. "
Scott Peterson

Adult fiction ebooks outsold hardcovers in 2011: survey - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 19 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 19 Jul 12
     
    This probably isn't the tipping point for ebooks over print--but is very close to it. Ebooks outsold adult hardcover fiction for the first time in 2011, nearly tripling their marketshare to 15%. However, the overall book market declined by 2.5% and the total revenue of ebooks (2 billion) was still much less than that of all print books (11.1 billion).
Scott Peterson

The French Still Flock to Bookstores - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 19 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 19 Jul 12
     
    In France eBooks are only 1.8% of the general market, and total sales of books have actually increased by 6.5% from 2003 to 2011. Some interesting conclusions are drawn from this, namely that prices for French language books are fixed by government decree and set by publishers--not by price discounters such as Amazon, and last year the publishers lobbied to do the same for eBooks. The French government is also friendly to booksellers, offering grants and help with rent. The result is French language bookstores are doing well, while some such English language bookstore such as the 30 year old Village Voice are closing because of the competition from resellers like Amazon and eBooks. The article surmises that the French are really only delaying the inevitable, but I find it curious that nothing is really stopping them from turning entirely to eBooks now, the main factor is cost rather than convenience or access.
Sharla Lair

Penguin eBooks Now Available to All Libraries via a Crappy Deal with 3M Cloud Library -... - 1 views

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shared by Sharla Lair on 13 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 13 Nov 12
     
    Ok. I am seriously tired of the popular fiction/non-fiction side of ebooks. Basically Penguin is saying that they will grant libraries access to their ebooks in the way that will tick off your patrons the most, so that they will never want to use your service. Why does 3M say ok to this? Because Penguin dropped OverDrive earlier this year and this is a new way to entice people to their 3M Cloud Library product. Does MOBIUS really want to work with a company that will accept less?
adrienne_mobius

Penguin Lifts Library Ebook Purchase Embargo - The Digital Shift - 0 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 29 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 29 Mar 13
     
    Penguin Group announced that on Tuesday, April 2, they will begin allowing libraries to purchase and lend ebook titles the day that hardcover editions are released.
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

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  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
adrienne_mobius

A Digital Dilemma: Ebooks and Users' Rights | American Libraries Magazine - 0 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 01 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 01 Jun 12
     
    "The current model of digital content delivery for libraries places library users' privacy at risk. Authorizing the loan of an ebook or the use of a database can communicate unique identifiers or personally identifiable information that reveals a user's identity."
Justin Hopkins

The Digital Media Machine: What happened to LendInk? The owner responds. - 1 views

www.digitalmediamachine.com/...to-lendink-owner-explains.html

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  • Justin Hopkins on 10 Aug 12
     
    LendInk was a site that facilitated legitimate ebook lending by putting people with books to lend in touch with people looking to borrow. This was all done at Amazon and Barnes & Noble's websites LendInk merely put the people in touch. The site was shut down because of their host receiving hundreds of Cease and Desist letters from ebook publishers who didn't even take the time to see what the site actually did or who didn't understand that their books were even lendable. 
adrienne_mobius

ALA Responds to AAP Challenges on Ebooks . . . Before They Are Even Issued | American L... - 1 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 28 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 28 Sep 12
     
    The ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group published an "Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries" report August 8. You can read more about the process, or jump right to a PDF download of the report.
Jennifer Parsons

A "print" format limit in a MARC-based catalog | Bibliographic Wilderness - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 06 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • What this blog post is about: How do you figure out if a bib is “print” or not from a MARC record?
  • The problem is that the origins of AACR2-MARC sort of assume print as a default, there’s no leader bytes or 007 or 008 code for ‘print’, print is sort of the absence of anything else.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 06 Dec 12
     
    The burgeoning presence of ebooks on library catalogs is producing an unexpected problem-- what if the patron wants a print version of a book as opposed to an ebook version? How do you tease that out of MARC? RDA's GMD appears to be helpful, but not a useful as the Leader, 007, or 008 fields.
Scott Peterson

ALA President, Maureen Sullivan: ALA, E-Books and You - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 08 Feb 13
     
    A brief video from the ALA about eBooks, mainly useful for information resources the ALA provides about eBooks.
Megan Durham

3M Makes Its Presence Felt | Series: Exploring Ebook Options - 0 views

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shared by Megan Durham on 07 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 07 Nov 12
     
    Move over OverDrive here comes 3M. Here is my favorite quote : "They're (patrons) able to do it (download books) on their own. [3M] is doing something right." This is huge as someone who worked at B&N for 4 years usability is a big deal. B&N is where people came to troubleshoot and the biggest headache was OverDrive (I hear its easier now). Also it'll be nice having someone else in the e-book market for libraries.
Scott Peterson

IUG Conference - 1 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 27 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 27 Apr 12
     
    I couldn't find a way to link directly to presentations or their materials. Probably the most interesting sessions I attended were: Solving the Complexities of Ebook Record Management in Millennium INN-Reach: Implementing Peer to Peer Functionality Between two INN-Reach Systems The Ebooks presentation was about checking for duplication, quality control, and making sure all the records an institution paid for are present and have valid links. There were a lot of good techniques that could be relayed to our members as a group of best practices. The Peer-To-Peer INN-Reach is a new product that allows two INN-Reach systems to share materials as if they were one. It was a done in Ohio as a response after one consortium added two public libraries and began to see their single INN-Reach server overwhelmed. From what I could tell it works well, with each INN-Reach server able to retain it's own loan rules and identity, but did require all the libraries and pickup locations to be added to both servers, which quickly would present patrons with a very long list of libraries to choose from. I wasn't very clear where the super-union webpac resided; whether on it's own server or produced from both of them. The users that were present seemed happy with it.
Sharla Lair

How to Turn a City into a Library - The Digital Reader - 0 views

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shared by Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12
     
    Interesting project in Austria. They placed 70 QR codes around the city each leading to a particular ebook or mp3 that can be downloaded for free.  The blog states, "This project is in effect giving digital content a finite location, thus removing one of the key aspects that separates paper books from ebooks". 
  • Jennifer Parsons on 11 Jul 12
     
    I wonder if the posts are in places with literary or historical significance-- e.g., a QR code near the former home of a famous author, leading to excerpts or readings from his or her books. I can see a huge potential for museums here, actually. For example, at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis, a QR code can be posted to information or collections on the Dred Scott Decision. Or here in Columbia, QR codes posted in the Red Campus can pull up copies of historical documents on the 1892 fire.
adrienne_mobius

Publishers Agree To $69 Million Settlement For Ebook Buyers - 0 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 31 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 31 Aug 12
     
    The proposed settlement of the antitrust suit against HarperCollins, Hachette SA, and Simon & Schuster will be effective 30 days from approval, with compensation distributed to each state. 49 states (excluding Minnesota) accused the publishers of price fixing.
Megan Durham

The ALA Ebook Standoff - 1 views

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shared by Megan Durham on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 01 Oct 12
     
    A look at the big e-book debate between libraries and publishers.
Jennifer Parsons

Ebooks and the Candlemaker's Petition | Peer to Peer Review - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 11 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 11 Dec 12
     
    Wayne Bivens-Tatum at the Library Journal offers a general criticism at how current copyright law is designed solely with the benefit of publishers in mind.
Scott Peterson

New DRM Will Change the Words in Your E-Book - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 20 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 20 Jun 13
     
    A new DRM feature called "SiDiM" intends to watermark eBooks by slightly changing the punctuation and text for each copy, this making them unique. Some concerns is how it may changes things for the reader or from what the author intended. A similar technique is used for some music files.
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