presentation at Internet Librarian West Internet @ Schools

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

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

3. Positives
What’s
good
about
ebooks?

4. Issues with ebook market
• pricing
• models for schools
• multiple formats/apps
• usage--Pew survey
• promotion
• misconceptions about availability
What’s
your
issue?
#il2013e

5. Ranking concerns

6. Other issues
“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.”

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

8. Purpose driven

9. Devices
Nooks
iPads
Kindles
iPhones

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

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

12. Individual purchase--book jobbers
Follett
MackinVIA
Axis360

13. Follett Shelf

14. Mackin VIA

15. Annual
Subscription/Choose
Titles
Overdrive

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

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

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

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

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

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

23. 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

24. formats matter!

25. 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)

26. 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.”

27. Student
perspectives
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28. Promotion

29. Staying informed...
Product News:
No Shelf Required Blog
No Shelf Required Books
eContent Quarterly from ALA

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