The document discusses the tensions between publishers and libraries over ebook licensing and distribution. It describes publishers withdrawing ebook catalogs from libraries or raising prices drastically. Treating ebooks as services rather than commodities is proposed, with the Swedish model as an example where libraries pay per circulation. Issues with the Swedish model include the distribution fee and lack of dynamic pricing. Fixes proposed include lowering fees and giving publishers more control over pricing. Benefits of libraries publishing their own ebooks or partnering with publishers are also discussed.

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2. PUBLISHING MADE EASY
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5. "Publishers and libraries
are waging a new
copyright war"
Swedens largest newspaper
Dagens Nyheter, February, 2012
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6. Everybody seems
unhappy with how
ebooks work in
libraries
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7. The worlds largest trade
publishers are either...
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8. The worlds largest trade
publishers are either...
• withdrawing their ebook catalogues from
library circulation
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9. The worlds largest trade
publishers are either...
• withdrawing their ebook catalogues from
library circulation
• raising prices drastically
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10. The worlds largest trade
publishers are either...
• withdrawing their ebook catalogues from
library circulation
• raising prices drastically
• or making changes to licensing terms that
are so unpopular that some libraries
blacklist entire publishing houses.
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13. Trying to make ebooks
behave like print:
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14. Trying to make ebooks
behave like print:
• You buy one ebook, you get to lend it to patrons
with no further costs, just like you would with a
print book
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15. Trying to make ebooks
behave like print:
• You buy one ebook, you get to lend it to patrons
with no further costs, just like you would with a
print book
• An ebook can only be lent to one patron at the
time, if you want to make it available to more than
one patron at the same time, you have to buy
more than one license.
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16. Trying to make ebooks
behave like print:
• You buy one ebook, you get to lend it to patrons
with no further costs, just like you would with a
print book
• An ebook can only be lent to one patron at the
time, if you want to make it available to more than
one patron at the same time, you have to buy
more than one license.
• The ebook wears out after a certain number of
circulations and you have to buy a new one, just
like a print book would. publishing houses.
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17. That’s no way to treat
an ebook
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18. Ebooks are not
commodities that can
be traded
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19. Ebooks are services
that must be licensed,
on terms that need to
be negotiated between
the licensor and the
licensee.
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20. Treating ebooks as
services, the Swedish model
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21. Treating ebooks as
services, the Swedish model
• A library gets access to full catalogues without
entry fee
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22. Treating ebooks as
services, the Swedish model
• A library gets access to full catalogues without
entry fee
• There's no cap on the number of patrons that gets
to lend an ebook concurrently.
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23. Treating ebooks as
services, the Swedish model
• A library gets access to full catalogues without
entry fee
• There's no cap on the number of patrons that gets
to lend an ebook concurrently.
• There's a cost for every transaction, you have to
pay a fee everytime an ebook is made available to a
patron.
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24. • Six times as many ebooks were distributed
through the Swedish library system than
through all commercial outlets combined in
2012.
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25. Bugs in the Swedish
model
• A long tradition of de facto monopoly and
a 50 percent distribution fee
• Hard coded prices > windowing
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26. Fixing the Swedish
model
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27. Fixing the Swedish
model
• Publit lowers distribution fee from the
traditional 50 percent to 20 percent
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28. Fixing the Swedish
model
• Publit lowers distribution fee from the
traditional 50 percent to 20 percent
• Dynamic pricing: the publisher decides cost
for circulation
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29. Fixing the Swedish
model
• Publit lowers distribution fee from the
traditional 50 percent to 20 percent
• Dynamic pricing: the publisher decides cost
for circulation
• Tools for the library to filter what titles to
carry
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30. Fixing the Swedish
model
• Publit lowers distribution fee from the
traditional 50 percent to 20 percent
• Dynamic pricing: the publisher decides cost
for circulation
• Tools for the library to filter what titles to
carry
• A platform that can be used by libraries
themselves
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33. The library as publisher,
doing pretty well!
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34. The library as publisher,
doing pretty well!
• An average commercial ebook circulated
twice per month to patrons in Stockholm
in 2012
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35. The library as publisher,
doing pretty well!
• An average commercial ebook circulated
twice per month to patrons in Stockholm
in 2012
• The average Myrdal-title circulated eight
times per month during 2012
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37. The library and the
publisher as partners
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38. The library and the
publisher as partners
• front list titles are made available to the
library at a premium price without
windowing
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39. The library and the
publisher as partners
• front list titles are made available to the
library at a premium price without
windowing
• the library lowers its cost for mid and
backlist titles
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40. The library and the
publisher as partners
• front list titles are made available to the
library at a premium price without
windowing
• the library lowers its cost for mid and
backlist titles
• dual licensing: the library helps digitise the
publishers out of print titles
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