How are young adults using electronic resources such as eText and eReaders? This presentation guides a discussion on how REAL students are using resources in and out of the classroom.

1. Jason G. Kurtz, MFA
9-16 Educator
Sioux Falls, SD

2. “Hit Me With”

The Rise of the Digital Public Library
by Joseph McKendrick
„The Digital Squeeze: Libraries at the Crossroads: The Library Resource Guide Benchmark Study
on 2012 Library Spending Plans‟
Younger Americans‟ Reading and Library Habits
by Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie, Kristen Purcell, Mary Madden and Joanna
Brenner
Pew Internet and American Life Project 23 Oct 2010

3. Hit Me With A Fact!

 Newsweek will cease publication in hard copy
December 31, 2012
 iGoogle will be discontinued November 13, 2013
 Demand for print resources is down 25% and
demand for electronic resources is up 81%

4. Watch those
Statistics… Don‟t let
them scare you…

15% vs 5% (Cost)
15% vs 21% (Royalty)
Larsson
Hard Copy: $117 Million
eText: $2.1 Million
1.5:1 = Not really an issue
Publishers make more
money from paper
85% of eReader owners
still purchase paper
books (and I Bet they
don‟t purchase as many
eBooks)

5. Are Books Like Horses?

 Physical books won't completely go away, just as horses
haven't completely gone away. It's very hard to find a
technology that has remained in mostly the same form for 500
years. And anything that has stubbornly resisted
improvement for 500 years is going to be hard to improve.
 I'm sure people love their horses… But you're not going to
keep riding your horse to work just because you love your
horse. The reason we love physical books is because we have
had so many great experiences with that object in our hands
that we have nice associations with it.
 Over the last 20 years, most of the tools that we humans have
invented have made it easier for us to be information
snackers. If one of the outcomes of Kindle and other devices Jeff Bezos CEO Amazon
like it [is] making long-form reading more frictionless so that Wall Street Journal
you end up doing more of it, I think that's a good thing.
2008

6. Don‟t Be Scared…Yet…

Bezos says that
they sold an eBook
for every paper
book last
Christmas.
Really?

7. Are Books Like…

Mass Produced Camera - 1900
Mass Produced Digital Camera - 1994
Last Film (I) Developed - 2004
At these ratios, the book will be
around another solid 50 years…

8. Books are like…

In the (50) years to
come, if you want to
know why physical
books and bookstores
seem more special than
ever, maybe you should
thank Amazon.
Will eReading issue in a
renaissance of
publishing?

9. Let‟s Talk…
Adult eReading

What are your reading preferences or proclivities?
What are you doing about them?
In your opinion, what are libraries for?
How do we translate/transfer this to our stakeholders?

10. (e)Reading in the
Classroom:

Past and Present
in the 21 st Century

11. Hit Me With A Fact!

 83% of Americans between the ages of 16 and 29
read a book in the past year. Some 75% read a print
book, 19% read an e-book, and 11% listened to an
audiobook.

12. In the Beginning…
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 2004: Lit Circles
 $8.99 x 4 x 20 sets
 2009 = 120 sets of
books & $4500
(My room is full!)

13. Something had to give…


14. In Medias Res

 2009/10: The Nook
(vs Kindle)
 5 Nooks x $249 + 10
eBooks @ 9.99 =
$1450
 10 eBooks = $99
(Terrible device but I am
committed)

15. 2011-2012

 2011 – 10 @ $99 Nook
Simple Touch (Grant)
$1000
 20 eTexts

16. Today 2012/2013

 2012: 17 Requisitioned
 27 Nook Simple Touch
($3700)
 75 eBooks 5 sets

17. Let‟s Talk…
Where Are You?

Discuss how you are using eText/eReaders.
Where are you going? Where have you been?

18. Using the eReader


19. Required Reading

 $8 purchased
an entire set of
O, Pioneers.
 Class-wide
eText, but had
the option.

20. Elective Reading

 Contemporary
Novels / Strategic
Reading
 Class-wide

21. Additional Reading

 eEditions of many
textbooks are available with
purchase of hard copy.
 Higher Ed seems to be a
slower conversion
 Online courses are already
multimedia; books are just
a reference or
supplemental, not the
focus.

22. Working well… For Now

The Horse?

23. Love/Hate : Student

Love Hate
 Portability/Size  Page Count Issues
 Entertaining  Battery Dies
 Pushed to Read More  Nervous about Damage
and anger management
 Adjustable
 Harder to go back and
 No eye strain like on a find events
computer/tablet  Freezing and “Tech
 Multiple Books at Once errors”
 Marked Page  No smell

24. Love/Hate : Educator

Love
 Discreet
 Page count not a factor
 Subject not a factor
 Easy to manage
 Keeps Students Organized
Hate
 Too Discreet
 Easy to forget to charge
 Discussions by page #
 Tracking Motifs/Themes

25. Love/Hate : Staff

Love Hate
 Portability  IT Knowledge a bit
 Library at your Fingertips Daunting
 Bookmarking (no dog ears)  Maintenance & Upkeep
 Ease of Physical Storage  1 Nook Set = 10-20 books
off the shelf at once
 Weight
 Device Expense (though
 Price coming down… Kindles at
cost, etc)
 Train Users
 Long Term Viability

26. What now?
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27. Recommendations for
the Future

Bring Your Own Device, The
Cloud, and Beyond

28. Hit Me With A Fact!

 Among Americans who read e-books, those under
age 30 are more likely to read their e-books on a cell
phone (41%) or computer (55%) than on an e-book
reader such as a Kindle (23%) or tablet (16%).
 60% of Americans under age 30 used the library in
the past year. Some 46% used the library for
research, 38% borrowed books (print
books, audiobooks, or e-books), and 23% borrowed
newspapers, magazines, or journals.

29. BYOD & The Cloud

 Tech is notoriously disposable (Books and eBooks are
not) and students are losing interest in eReaders
 Why Don‟t eBooks function like Books? Library Cloud!
 Circulation: Books are the coins and eBooks the paper?
Vice versa?
 Are chasing a dragon? Why buy any at all until the
industry figures itself out?

30. The Passing of Paper?

What will you miss about Paper,
and what do you want from eBooks?
What will you miss from your Paper library
and what do you want from your eLibrary? Are they the same?

31. Hit Me With A Fact!

 Many of these young readers do not know they can
borrow an e-book from a library, and a majority of them
express the wish they could do so on pre-loaded e-
readers. Some 58% of those under age 30 who do not
currently borrow e-books from libraries say they would
be “very” or “somewhat” likely to borrow pre-loaded e-
readers if their library offered that service.
 When asked how they had obtained the most recent book
they read (in any format) about half (48%) of readers said
they had purchased their most recently read book, 24%
said they had borrowed it from a friend or family
member, and 14% said they borrowed it from a library.

32. You can find my slides at

33. Sources
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McKendrick, J. (2012). The Rise of the Digital Public Library. Computers In
Libraries, 32(6), 17-20.
Mossberg, W. (2008, June 09). The way we read; amazon.com's jeffrey bezos on why
books are like horses. Retrieved from
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121261272441346269.html
Zickuhr, K. et al. (2012, October 23). Younger americans’ reading and library
habits. Retrieved from http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/10/23/
younger-americans-reading-and-library-habits/