Practicals of Pixels: Purchasing and Processing Ebooks
1. The Practicals of Pixels: Purchasing and Processing E-books (or, What Do You Need to Know to Purchase an E-book?) Carolyn DeLuca, University of St Thomas Dani Roach, University of St Thomas Meg Knodl, Hennepin County Library Rita Baladad, Minitex
2. Turn and face the strange Rita Baladad E-resources Coordinator, Minitex
9. T urn and Face the Strange Ziggy Stardust: Masayoshi Sukita, http://www.5years.com/gallerysukita.htm Fish or Fowl Rooster: By Lip Kee Yap from Singapore, Republic of Singapore (Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) male 1) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Goldfish: By Elma from Reykjavík (Gullfiskur) [CC-BY-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Scholarly Kitchen, “Publishing Through the Wormhole,” http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/04/26/publishing-through-the-wormhole-a-new-format-for-the-born-digital-publisher/ Ch-ch-changes Amazon Revokes Lendle’s API Access: http://lendle.me/amazon-api-revocation/ Harper Collins Puts Cap: http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889452-264/harpercollins_caps_loans_on_ebook.html.csp AmazonDeletesYourBooks: http://consumerist.com/2009/07/amazon-deletes-your-books-has-always-been-at-war-with-eastasia.html Judge Rejects Google’s Deal to Digitize Books: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/23/technology/23google.html Kindle Library Lending and OverDrive: http://overdriveblogs.com/library/2011/04/20/kindle-library-lending-and-overdrive-what-it-means-for-libraries-and-schools/ What Do We Want? Unicorn: http://www.scenicreflections.com/files/a_real_unicorn_Wallpaper__yvt2.jpgtm Guideposts Program for Cooperative Cataloging: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibco/PN-Guide.pdf E-pub: http://idpf.org/epub Triangle Research Libraries Network: http://www.trln.org/press/032111.pdf Library Renewal: http://libraryrenewal.org/ Colorado Independent Publishers Association: http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/03162011/two-colorado-libraries-break-new-e-book-ground BC Books Online: http://books.bc.ca/bcbooksonline/ Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/
11. Practicals of Pixels: Purchasing and Processing Ebooks Carolyn DeLuca Electronic Resources Librarian University of St. Thomas Libraries (MN) Dani Roach Head of Serials & Electronic Resource Acquisitions University of St. Thomas Libraries (MN) April 2011 Metronet Wind Down
20. Platforms by Business Model* Big Managed Collections Dedicated Viewers Publisher- centric Impelsys *From “ Business issues and trends in the digital book landscape” 08/09 Anne Orens, updated 1/2010 User Augmented DASH!
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Editor's Notes
Increase in circulation every month since launch As of 4/26, 9,501 titles in ePub format. 14,909 copies Harper Collins limited licensed content: 106 Number of checkouts total: Adobe EPUB eBook: 72,439 (Current: 9,204) Number of reserves currently on ePUB 17,560 Number of unique customers signed up with OverDrive: 26,675
