This document discusses ebooks and issues related to their use in schools. It provides an overview of the positives of ebooks such as 24/7 access and free audio features. However, it also outlines several issues with the ebook market including a lack of ease of use, high prices, and different pricing models between schools and publishers. It then examines various models for purchasing ebooks, from individual title purchases to annual subscriptions and databases. It also explores trends in the industry around publisher terms and emerging formats. Overall, the document aims to inform readers about ebook options and ongoing discussions around integrating them into school libraries and classrooms.

1. I thought
you said
boots!
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Ebooks:
Prospects and
Perspectives
Internet @ Schools
Carolyn Foote, Westlake HS

2. Where’s
my
ipod?
Text
Text
We
prefer
Napster

3. What’s
good
about
ebooks?
Positives
Access
24/7
Features
Free
Audio

4. Student
perspectives
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5. Issues with ebook market
• ease of use/too many access points
• interest in use
• pricing
• models for schools
• multiple formats/apps
• promotion
• misconceptions about availability
What’s
your
issue?
#il2013e

6. Ranking concerns

7. Promotion and findability

9. And what about...
“In my district, budgets are not adjusted to the price of
ebooks. We get the same amount of money, without the
consideration of the cost. We need to have discussions at
the district & campus levels (where the money comes from)
so those who make those decisions see the ebook issues
and price discrepancies.
We (school librarians) are expected to purchase ebooks for
the classrooms & for pleasure reading by students, but we
are not given the appropriate funds to do so.”

10. These books
are mobile!
Slumgullion
Bookmobile (Montana)

11. Purpose driven

12. Devices
Nooks
iPads
Kindles
iPhones

13. Multi-use, Subscription
based
ABC-Clio
Big Universe
Capstone
StarWalk Kids Media
Tumblebooks

14. Individual ebooks--by
imprint
Abdo
Lerner
Rosen Interactive
Rourke
Storia (Scholastic)

15. Individual purchase--book jobbers
Follett
MackinVIA
Axis360

16. Follett Shelf

17. Mackin VIA

18. Annual
Subscription/Choose
Titles
Overdrive

19. Patron Driven models
Brain Hive
Ebsco (college level)

20. Database-esque
Ebsco
Ebrary
Gale
Marshall Cavendish/Sharp

21. Free
Project Gutenberg
(copyright free)
Audiovox
ICDL (International
Children’s Digital
Library)
iBooks author
free is
good!

22. Enhancing the
book
Subtext (in text
notations)
Gobstopper (in text
notations)
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23. Leisure suits are
#trending

24. growth
Slide from:
http://pewinternet.org/Presentations/2012/Oct/Librar

25. usage
Slide from: http://pewinternet.org/Presentations/20

26. Industry trends
Worse terms from
publishers/increased prices
Improved terms from publishers
Ability to purchase temporary
access multi-use titles
Ingram myILibrary
Self-publishing rapidly increasing
Choice--Design and print your
own book of collected
articles/chapters -- DeGruyter
Select

27. formats matter!

28. and more trends...
Patron Driven Acquisition--Ebsco,
BrainHive
Multi-user options increasing
Streaming audio and
video(Overdrive)
Apps for in-text
communication(Subtext/Gobstop
per)

29. Librarians speak
We
want
better!
• “We want multi-user access and a single platform for access.”
• “If you don’t take my print books off the shelf after 26 checkouts or 12
months, why do you feel justified in taking my ebooks away?”
• School libraries and public libraries are very different entities. Our loan
models and access is very different. When the Big five or Big six
publishers are making their prices and lending models for the adult
book reader, they need to consider students and schools.
• “It should be as easy for students to check out fiction (ebooks) as it is
for them to use our nonfiction (ebook) collection.”
• “Students need really easy interfaces and don’t want to have to click
through multiple portals.”

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31. Staying informed...
No Shelf Required Blog
No Shelf Required Books
eContent Quarterly from ALA
SLJ Marketplace
http://tinyurl.com/sljmarket
Internet @ Schools
Digital Reader
www.the-digital-reader.com

32. find me here:
Carolyn Foote
Westlake HS Library
Austin Tx
technolibrary@gmail.com
www.futura.edublogs.org
@technolibrary