Acquisitions
E-books = evolutionary books
Richard Siegersma, general manager, Thorpe-Bowker
col-lab-o-rate
- To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort.
- Buying power
- eg Barnes & Noble example
- Flow on to Global Books in Print
- Aust uni's buy $50 Mill books
- How is it being used to improve delivery in Australia?l
Trend in information use
- Reducing size of unit of information
- Evident in
- ILL
- Document delivery
- Electronic journal articles - no bundling
- Exposing what is between the covers
- Chapters
- Paragraphs
- Words
- Now!
Ebook gazette:
- The 17 June announcement that Gemstar would be pulling out of the e-book business marked the end of a former market leader and early champion of electronic books. With the company under new marching orders to shore up expenditures and with its ebook division costing $12 million annually, Gemstar seemed to be left with few options.
Jupiter Media Metrix:
- 'We haven't issued forecasts for the industry in two years, because the market's going nowhere,' said David Card, an analyst with Jupiter Media Metrix. 'E-books were a dumb idea. I am very negative on this market.'
Available formats
- Adobe pdf's
- html
- Document streaming - ebrary
- Multiple users one file
- Audio e-books
New value systems
- E-book US$6.99 available
- Print $7.99 paperback NYP
- 12 500 books
- Adobe Acrobat format $29.95
- No re-shelving
- No loan processing
- Reduced cost to make 'shelf ready'
- View before you buy
Print/e-book combination
A solution for the 'now' generation
- BookSurge - print on demand
plus instant e-book
Enough memory to store a library?
5 terabyte usb storage device
e-books - where are we today?
Microsoft Reader includes text to speech function.
E-Ink
Electronic paper/electronic ink
This display screen currently is as thick as a mouse pad, but eventually it will become as thin as four sheets of paper. The particles or beads respond to electronic impulses and move depending on the images requested. The next generation of e-paper will add organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) to the plastic sheets to display full color and full-motion video.
e-books include digital audio books
Over 18 000 audio titles to choose from.
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