Welcome to the World of eBooks and eReaders

Ready or Not… Here They Come

Books by the Numbers 2010

3,082,740: Total number of titles produced in 20102,766,260: Number of nontraditional titles produced in 2010

316,480: Number of traditional titles produced in 2010169: Percentage increase in nontraditional output in 2010

5: Percentage increase in traditional output in 201051: Percentage increase in computer book output in 2010

29: Percentage decline in literature title output in 201047,392: Number of fiction books produced in 201048,738: Number of fiction books produced in 200932,638: Number of juvenile titles produced in 201033,028: Number of juvenile titles produced in 2009

1,461,918: Number of titles produced by the print-on-demand company BiblioBazaar

744,376: Number of titles produced by the print-on-demand company General Books

E-book Sales Up 169.4% YTD as Other Trade Segments Fall, PW, Feb 16, 2011$443 Million; other trade segments fell by as much as 25%!! Print Units Drop 10% In First Half of 2011

Adult fiction, mass market paperback hardest hit

eBook Salesby Category 2011

Units vs Revenue (Publishers Weekly June 20, 2011)

Print vs DigitalReading habits

1% only read eBooks40% only read print

33% read both43% will own an eReader or

tablet in 2011(Codex Group's "Book Publishing Digital Transition Report: 1st Quarter 2011“

conducted among 9,175 book buyers in February)

eBook Readers Device Projections by

2015160 million desktops150 million laptops

120 million smartphones25 million dedicated eReaders

(Publishers Weekly, June 21, 2010)

Checkout the handout on eReaders

Amazon to Allow Library Lending of Kindle Books through Overdrive!!

Where do public libraries fit

Mission

Grow the number of book lovers and knowledge lovers in the general population

regardless of format.

How are Libraries Responding?

Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Public Library System

$35,000—eBook expenditures 2010

$350,000—eBook expenditures 2011

…And in Vermont we have…

Green Mountain Library Consortium>Began has a consortium for downloading audio books

>AKA, “ListenUp Vermont”

>Has expanded into advantageous pricing for databases & eBooks

>Contracts with Overdrive, a vendor of eAudio and eBooks

How to Download a book from Overdrive

Go to your library’s link to OverdriveDigital Media at Brooks Memorial Library

Check out the following links:

Overdrive Quick Start Guide

Use Overdrive’s My Help feature

My Help at Overdrive

Download free software on your computer

Download Adobe Digital Editions

Download free software to your mobile device

Download Overdrive Media Console 2

eBook User’s Bill of Rights

eBook User’s Bill of Rights

Questions?