1. e-Books
Past, Present, Future
Ksenija Mincic-Obradovic
LIANZA Hikuwai
Auckland, 22 April 2013

2. Areas for improvement
• More standardisation (purchase models,
formats, ways of access)
• High quality metadata for discovering e-
books
• More recommended texts
• Timely updates
• Collaboration - vendors, publishers, LIS
developers, libraries should work close
together and further explore best practices,
workflows, and business models
Slide from presentation at LibraryConnect seminar in 2009,
http://www.slideshare.net/KsenijaNS/ten-years-on

3. e-Book Popularity Growing
http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/e-retailers-now-accounting-for-nearly-half-of-book-purchases-by-volume/
Kindle Fire
iPad 2
iPad

4. reimaginedonline.com

5. Author: Susan Hoerth

6. “The smell of a freshly printed book is
the best smell in the world.”
Karl Lagerfeld
Source: Steidlville.com

7. Library responses to growing
market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VFK2YfYfxo

8. Moving it closer – e- to print

9. Print on demand
Source:
www.washingtonpost.com
Source:
allposters.com

10. What is happening in NZ?

11. University Libraries
The University of Auckland Library:
– 1st
collection 2002
– Over 600,000 e-books in Library catalogue
– 30% of all material in the catalogue are e-books

12. Public libraries
• Access to e-books - one of the most important
issues facing public libraries today

13. E-Lending – crucial part of a
modern library service
• digital lending should echo physical lending
• digital lending could damage the book industry

14. Amazon has digital lending library

15. New paradigms
• Open Access
• Selfpublishing
• Preservation

16. Areas for improvement
• More standardisation (purchase models,
formats, ways of access)
• High quality metadata for discovering e-
books
• More (recommended) NZ texts
• Timely updates e-Lending
• Collaboration - vendors, publishers, LIS
developers, libraries should work close
together and further explore best practices,
workflows, and business models
Slide from presentation at LibraryConnect seminar in 2009,
http://www.slideshare.net/KsenijaNS/ten-years-on

17. Image Credits
• http://beattiesbookblog.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/the-e-book-lending-wars-whe
• http://libraryebooktour.wordpress.com/
• http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/e-retailers-now-accounting-
for-nearly-half-of-book-purchases-by-volume/
• https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
• http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=3829
• http://exislepublishing.co.nz/Practical-Beekeeping-in-New-Zealand-
eBook.html
• http://www.amazon.com/Language-Cambridge-Textbooks-Linguistics-
ebook/dp/B002UEP8O2/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-
text&ie=UTF8&qid=1366150218&sr=1-2&keywords=matras
• http://www.doctordisruption.com/disruption/planning-for-an-
uncertain-future/

18. Qk.obradovic@auckland.ac.nz