6. Advantages Example of Kindle Cost savings per book Weight savings Subscription updates Dictionary Public domain and other texts by cable Green (less paper) Greater purchasing of books E-ink
7. Problems so far Continuing with the Kindle: Limitations of device interfaces Hardware cost Annotation issues e-book-specific: DRM Title availability Visual quality Multimedia Sharing limitations
22. Ebook disadvantages Users uncomfortable with digital Publishers’ nerves with copyright Multimedia costs Wiki problems
23. 3. Ecosystems and decisions Combining devices, format, services, and business model Kindle: Amazon store Nook: Barnes and Noble store iPad: iTunes book section
25. Campus decision points File format Device tie-in For free or fee? (http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/)
26. Campus points of implementation Library building (Fairleigh Dickinson) Campus bookstore Library portal Courseware Open Web http://web.mit.edu/viz/EM/flash/E&M_Master/E&M.swf
27. 4. Looking ahead in 2010 Vendors expanding market Format expansion and experimentation More academic examples described
30. Your turn What ebook implementations (if any) do you foresee for 2010?
31. More resources ELI, 7 Things You Need to Know About E-books, http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutEBook/156823 “, “ “ “ “ “ “ “ e-readers, http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutERead/200539 Trina Marmarelli, Martin Ringle, “The Reed College Kindle Study” http://web.reed.edu/cis/about/kindle_pilot/Reed_Kindle_report.pdf
32. Sources for free ebooks Internet Text Archive, http://www.archive.org/details/texts Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ HEB (if your campus subscribes), http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ Connexions, http://cnx.org/ Online Books Page (Penn), http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ BookBoon, http://bookboon.com/us/student/info/about
33. Even more resources NITLE blog, Techne http://blogs.nitle.org Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon Bryan’s research Twitter http://twitter.com/bryanalexander