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e-Books Past, Present, Future Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic LIANZA Hikuwai Auckland, 22 April 2013

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e-Books Past, Present, Future

Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic

LIANZA HikuwaiAuckland, 22 April 2013

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Areas for improvement• More standardisation (purchase models,

formats, ways of access) • High quality metadata for discovering e-

books • More recommended texts• Timely updates• Collaboration - vendors, publishers, LIS

developers, libraries should work close together and further explore best practices, workflows, and business models

Slide from presentation at LibraryConnect seminar in 2009, http://www.slideshare.net/KsenijaNS/ten-years-on

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e-Book Popularity Growing

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/e-retailers-now-accounting-for-nearly-half-of-book-purchases-by-volume/

Kindle Fire

iPad 2

iPad

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Author: Susan Hoerth

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“The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.” Karl Lagerfeld

Source: Steidlville.com

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Library responses to growing market

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VFK2YfYfxo

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Moving it closer – e- to print

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Print on demand

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Source: allposters.com

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What is happening in NZ?

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University Libraries

The University of Auckland Library:– 1st collection 2002– Over 600,000 e-books in Library catalogue– 30% of all material in the catalogue are e-books

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Public libraries

• Access to e-books - one of the most important issues facing public libraries today

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E-Lending – crucial part of a modern library service

• digital lending should echo physical lending• digital lending could damage the book industry

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Amazon has digital lending library

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New paradigms

• Open Access• Selfpublishing• Preservation

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Areas for improvement• More standardisation (purchase models,

formats, ways of access) • High quality metadata for discovering e-

books • More (recommended) NZ texts• Timely updates e-Lending• Collaboration - vendors, publishers, LIS

developers, libraries should work close together and further explore best practices, workflows, and business models

Slide from presentation at LibraryConnect seminar in 2009, http://www.slideshare.net/KsenijaNS/ten-years-on

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Image Credits

• http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/the-e-book-lending-wars-when-authors.html

• http://libraryebooktour.wordpress.com/• http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/e-retailers-now-accounting-for-

nearly-half-of-book-purchases-by-volume/• https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8• http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=3829 • http://exislepublishing.co.nz/Practical-Beekeeping-in-New-Zealand-

eBook.html• http://www.amazon.com/Language-Cambridge-Textbooks-Linguistics-

ebook/dp/B002UEP8O2/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1366150218&sr=1-2&keywords=matras

• http://www.doctordisruption.com/disruption/planning-for-an-uncertain-future/