eBooks and eTextbooks

Forrester Research: eBook Sales Hit $1 Billion

“2010 will end with $966 million in

eBooks sold to consumers. By 2015,

the industry will have nearly tripled to

almost $3 billion, a point at which the

industry will be forever altered.”

http://blogs.forrester.com/james_mcquivey/10-11-08-ebooks_ready_to_climb_past_1_billion

2008 2010 2015 $1

$1,000,000,001

$2,000,000,001

$3,000,000,001

eBook Sales

Less than 10% of Adults Read eBooks

7% of adults read ebooks. 41% of their books are digital.

eReader owners read 66% of their books digitally.

97%

4%3%

Adult Readers

Physical only

eBook user: physical

eBook user: dig-ital

http://blogs.forrester.com/james_mcquivey/10-11-08-ebooks_ready_to_climb_past_1_billion

How People Read eBooks

Laptop 35%

Kindle 32%iPhone 15%

Sony Reader 12%

Netbook 10%

Nook 9%

iPad 9%

eTextbooks

• Flat World Knowledge http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

• Coursesmart http://www.coursesmart.org/

• Free Digital Textbook Initiativehttp://www.clrn.org/fdti/

• CourseLoad any textbook can be made into digital format

http://www.courseload.com/Home.aspx

Custom eTextbooks

• Dynamic Books (Macmillan)http://dynamicbooks.vitalbook.com/

• Create (McGraw-Hill) http://create.mcgraw-hill.com

• WileyPlus (John Wiley & Sons) http://www.wileyplus.com/

• Pearson Custom http://www.pearsoncustom.com/

Library Resources

• NetLibrary – must read online• Overdrive – checkout downloadable books.• Other ebooks (online books)

http://library.wichita.edu/colldev/ebooks.htm

Discussion

• What is the purpose of a textbook?• As ebooks become more interactive, what will this do to

the role of the instructor? • What about the bookstore?

http://chronicle.com/article/As-Textbooks-Go-Digital/125363/