[net-gold] BOOKS: ELECTRONIC BOOKS : LIBRARIES : PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS: ELECTRONIC AND ONLINE : INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: A Library Written in Disappearing Ink
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- Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 13:39:42 -0500 (EST)
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BOOKS: ELECTRONIC BOOKS :
LIBRARIES :
PUBLISHERS PUBLISHING AND PUBLICATIONS: ELECTRONIC AND ONLINE :
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
A Library Written in Disappearing Ink
A Library Written in Disappearing Ink
By Barbara Fister
February 28, 2011 9:45 pm EST
Inside Higher Ed
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/
library_babel_fish/a_library_written_in_disappearing_ink
A shorter URL for the above link:
http://tinyurl.com/4h38a46
I've been mulling over the bizarre new move by a major publisher to get
more blood out of a turnip - or rather, to try and get more money out
public libraries at a time when their budgets are being slashed.
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The librarians' corner of the Twitterverse has been on fire ever since
Library Journal investigated a vague pronouncement from Overdrive, a
vendor of e-books and digital audio books to libraries, that some unnamed
publisher wanted to limit the number of times an e-book could be checked
out. The publisher in question, it turns out, is HarperCollins, which has
decided that after a book has been checked out 26 times the library will
have to purchase it again or it will vanish.
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To many, this seems outrageous, a kind of technological book burning. A
boycott has been launched, a bill of rights for e-book readers
proposed.And BoingBoing, Slashdot, Metafilter, and even the New York Times
took note.
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Now, before I go any further, I should add a few additional facts for
background. First, at least two of the Big Six publishers (Macmillan and
Simon & Schuster) won't let libraries purchase or license e-books at all.
fixed.)
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Second, libraries pay more for e-books than for a print copy. Up
front, the library has to pay the vendor quite a lot for the system that
controls one-user-at-a-time software that returns the book automatically
after two weeks, it pays full price rather than the discounted price that
it pays for a print book, and librarians spend a lot of time
trouble-shooting downloads and explaining to people that library e-books
won't work on a Kindle.
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For these reasons, I've had my reservation about libraries investing their
scarce dollars into renting material with so many restrictions that
benefits only those who have the equipment to read the digital files.
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E-Books: What a Librarian Wants
September 8, 2010, 2:40 pm
The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/e-books-what-a-librarian-wants/26777
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These days, about 20 percent of the current monographs the library adds
are digital, according to Mouw. The move toward e-books has been gradual
but noticeable and parallels a similar shift in the journals world, he
said.
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Users have made their own shift toward digital materials. The library
recently did a survey of Chicagos graduate and professional students. Many
respondents said they wanted more e-books. It came up over and over again,
Mouw said. I dont think we have good data on how [e-books are] being used.
We know theyre being used a lot.
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Mouw laid out a few criteria he wants digital monographs to meet. First,
if there are going to be print and digital versions, they should be
available at the same time, so the library can decide which best suits its
needs. If we have patron requests, were not going to wait three months for
an e-book, he said.
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The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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