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e-Books Past, Present, Future
Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic
LIANZA HikuwaiAuckland, 22 April 2013
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
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
reimaginedonline.com
Author: Susan Hoerth
“The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.” Karl Lagerfeld
Source: Steidlville.com
Library responses to growing market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VFK2YfYfxo
Moving it closer – e- to print
Print on demand
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Source: allposters.com
What is happening in NZ?
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
Public libraries
• Access to e-books - one of the most important issues facing public libraries today
E-Lending – crucial part of a modern library service
• digital lending should echo physical lending• digital lending could damage the book industry
Amazon has digital lending library
New paradigms
• Open Access• Selfpublishing• Preservation
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
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/