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A note to our readers We have updated our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Review t... - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 14 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 14 Jun 12
     
    Pricewaterhouse Coopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook predicts that E-books will make up 50 percent of the U.S. trade book market by 2016. Total book spending is predicted to be relatively flat, with the total spending on print books declining while e-books will grow fast enough by 2013 to offset the decline. E-book spending is predicted to skyrocket in North America, but will grow slower in Europe and Asia, with Japan and South Korea as notable exceptions.
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A "print" format limit in a MARC-based catalog | Bibliographic Wilderness - 0 views

bibwild.wordpress.com/...-limit-in-a-marc-based-catalog catalog format MARC RDA cataloging Professional Development
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.
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New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

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shared by Donna Bacon on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • 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.
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Will Gutenberg laugh last? - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 11 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 11 Jan 13
     
    An article I have some mixed feelings about, seeming a little too much of a cheering section for print books. However, some good points have been made, that eBooks have begin some declines in sales and e-readers and tablets may not be well suited for all reading applications, ultimately complementing print books the same as audio books rather than replacing them.
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Books are competing for shelf space - KansasCity.com - 2 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 22 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 22 Jun 12
     
    Are print books becoming just another decorative object?
  • Jennifer Parsons on 26 Jun 12
     
    I wonder if that's a moot point; books have been considered art objects for a long time. Maybe with the shift to electronic text, they'll just be seen as more so.
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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).
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American Youth Read Books in Print (For Now) - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 11 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 11 Jul 13
     
    An interesting survey where it shows younger readers 16-29 are more likely to use books, use traditional library services, and read e-books on an computer rather than an e-book reader than their older (30-49) counterparts.
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Book printed in ink that vanishes after two months - Yahoo! Small Business Advisor - 4 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 25 Jul 12
     
    Weird.
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  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    Not really, sounds like they're copying the idea from eBooks about allowing access for only a short time.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 27 Jul 12
     
    I think Scott has it on the nose. It's depressing that not even print format can save us from temporary content!
  • Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
     
    I think this highlights the ridiculousness of the ebook issue, but I actually think it's a great idea as it's being presented. "The book that cannot wait" just seems cool to me. Probably not as cool as the book of Snoop Dogg lyrics made out of rolling papers but hey - we can't all be as cool as the D-O-Double-G.
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Print On Demand: Major Announcement Could Change How You Buy Books - 1 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 17 Sep 12
     
    "The makers of the POD Espresso Book Machine currently installed in fewer than a hundred bookstores nationwide, have announced new partnerships with Eastman Kodak and ReaderLink Distribution Services. Under the arrangement, the company's POD technology will be made available to retailers who have Kodak Picture Kiosks, currently installed in 105,000 locations according to Publishers Weekly, including drugstores and supermarkets. "
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Books From Nowhere - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 06 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 06 Dec 12
     
    An article that addresses a problem which has come up before, namely "junk" books made from electronic files, in this case physical copies as opposed to eBooks, but with the same problems. Material in the text is missing, as well as the publisher and print date, edition, the notation about original language or any information about the author. Such information, separated from the original work, means that the context and in some cases documentation for the book are lost, which could harm research and preservation in the long run.
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The End of Books - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 23 Aug 12 - Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 23 Aug 12
     
    An article from 1992 about the of books to be replaced by the then-new technology of hypertext. I find it an interesting contrast that back then the change was a new method of reading and access, while today's eBooks are more typically a print book repackaged for an electronic device.
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Espresso Book Machines: Should Libraries Offer On Demand Publishing? - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 21 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 21 Jun 12
     
    A fairly brief article that cites the benefits of on-site book publishing (supporting independent and creative authors), formatting and self-publishing academic material, and supporting in a limited manner a patron driven acquisitions model, offset by the machine's high price of $125-$150,000. I think it would be interesting to see numbers on printing volume and overall operating costs, as well as whether any leasing options are available for the book machine.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 22 Jun 12
     
    I'm glad to see the Espresso is starting to get press. It's been around for awhile, and has the potential to be very useful.
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Book Places in the Digital Age « The Digital Digest - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 21 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 21 Jun 12
     
    The article offers an interesting model of a "Book Place"-- a sort of combination library/bookstore of the future that offers things like printed books on demand if they're not in the store (thanks to the awesome Espresso machine and the 7 million titles it has on EspressoNet), and rental/subscription services for users-- including DRM free options for electronic media.
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Out of Print, Maybe, but Not Out of Mind - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-their-print-predecessors.html Professional Development
shared by Scott Peterson on 06 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 06 Dec 13
     
    A somewhat whimsical article looking at how similar e-resource offerings are to traditional books and how books are still part of our mindset.
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BIBLIOFUTURE: Your friendly logger says, "Buy the real thing - real books printed on re... - 0 views

bibliofuture.blogspot.com/...ndly-logger-says-buy-real.html ebooks
shared by adrienne_mobius on 14 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 14 Jun 12
     
    In 2000 Microsoft made a series of predictions about ebooks over the following 20 years. The prediction for 2012 includes an ad campaign by the logging industry that says, "Buy the real thing - real books printed on real paper.
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Judge Says Fair Use Protects Universities in Book-Scanning Project - 0 views

www.wired.com/...fair-use-book-scanning Professional Development.
shared by Scott Peterson on 18 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 18 Oct 12
     
    A victory for fair use, with scanned materials that are used in the HathiTrust. The HathiTrust repository use materials scanned from the Google Books but he access is more restrictive, allowing full text searches only with the copyright holder's permission--but does allow full text for readers with print disabilities. A Federal judge ruled this is covered by fair use, while related lawsuits against Google continue.
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Norway Decided to Digitize All the Norwegian Books - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 13 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 13 Dec 13
     
    An ambitious plan for Norway to scan all printed material in Norwegian in about 15 years, based on how copies of any new book are to be deposited in the national library and therefore by scanning the entire national library all materials will be digitized.
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The End of the Book? - 0 views

blogs.library.jhu.edu/...the-end-of-the-book libraries ebooks professional library technology
shared by Megan Durham on 05 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 05 Oct 12
     
    "Either the books must go, or they must swallow us up. I calculate that, take the whole world over, from eighty to one hundred thousand books appear every year; at an average of a thousand copies, this makes more than a hundred millions of books, the majority of which contain only the wildest extravagances or the most chimerical follies, and propagate only prejudice and error. Our social condition forces us to hear many stupid things every day. A few more or less do not amount to very great suffering in the end; but what happiness not to be obliged to read them, and to be able at last to close our eyes upon the annihilation of printed things!"
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Books aren't dead yet - 0 views

www.salon.com/...books_arent_dead_yet Professional Development
shared by Scott Peterson on 29 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 29 Mar 13
     
    A somewhat hopeful article pointing out that the interest in e-book readers is leveling off while print continues, and that if anything things such as online self-publishing have helped as it reduces the risk for commercial publishers in recruiting new authors.
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3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up - Wired Campus - The Chronicle ... - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 10 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • The publishers’ complaint takes issue with the way the upstart produces its open-education textbooks, which Boundless bills as free substitutes for expensive printed material. To gain access to the digital alternatives, students select the traditional books assigned in their classes, and Boundless pulls content from an array of open-education sources to knit together a text that the company claims is as good as the designated book. The company calls this mapping of printed book to open material “alignment”—a tactic the complaint said creates a finished product that violates the publishers’ copyrights.
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