Presentation on ebooks and ereading from the North Alabama Technology Conference on July 15, 2010

1. 21st Century Reading http://tinyurl.com/21stcenturyreading Wendy Stephens wstephens@madison.k12.al.us North Alabama Technology Conference July 15, 2010

2. Vannevar Bush and The Memex

3. 1971 – Michael Hart founds Project Gutenberg on server space at University of Illinois

4. on Christmas Day, Amazon sold more e-books than physical books, for the first time

5. “Lightweight. Easy to use. Great for travel.”

6. June 12, 2010 Another dedicated user group? Students. But maybe not yet. Initial Kindle DX reviews NOT favorable.

7. for many reasons, some of them environmental, the book’s place is now being challenged

8. In 2009, print book sales ebbed 1.8 percent. E-book sales increased 176.6 percent over 2008, yet they remain fewer than 3 percent of all books sold

9. A large proportion of early e-book owners - up to 66 percent in some surveys - are older than 40 E-book users tend to earn more than $100,000 a year, be college-educated, and be very Web and social-media savvy. "These people do everything on the Web. They spend more than 20 hours a week on it." who reads ebooks?

10. e-books can be a boon for many people with disabilities

11. “the e-Top 10 looks pretty much like the non-e”

13. samples

14. “All of a sudden, by reading the book electronically as opposed to in print, I now have… the ability to access my book notes and highlights from any where I have an Internet connection. Game. Changer. I keep thinking, what if I had every note and highlight that I had ever taken in a paper book available to search through, to connect with other similar ideas from other books, to synthesize electronically?…”

15. B&N leverages its bricks-and-mortar stores with a “Brigadoon Library”

17. Harlequin just went live with the Carina Press, which offers books in electronic form first, with the option to go to press later.

19. Format wars pdf epub azw xml drm

20. CEO Michael Serbinis said that with Kobo, you could buy a book, keep it forever and read it on any other device you choose, except the Kindle.

21. “The usefulness of the Opus — like that of all of its e-reader cousins — is totally hobbled by books that come with digital rights management.”

22. In 1989, the U.S. enacted the Berne Convention Implementation Act, amending the 1976 Copyright Act to conform to most of the provisions of the Berne Convention. As a result, the use of copyright notices has become optional to claim copyright, because the Berne Convention makes copyright automatic.

24. “When we find a copyediting or formatting error in a book, we ask the publisher for a new file and replace the one in the Kindle Store so that new purchases of the book do not have the error. We will update the file for a book a customer has already purchased only when the customer asks us to.”

27. ebook pricing Apple’s iBooks has wooed several publishers with a $14 price point instead of a $10 one

28. Dedicated ereader pricing – lower by the day! Kindle – now $189 Sony Reader -- Pocket Edition now as low as $99 Barnes and Noble Nook -- now $199, wifi version$149

33. Ebooks across platforms

34. Some things to consider: Where you read (Brigadoon) Backlighting Native file conversion (.pdfs) Compatibility with public library resources Weight Wifi or 3G? Or cable-only. Which ereader do you want?

36. Ereader petting zoo time to follow

39. Mobile reading Stanza Standalone Twilight app by Iceberg

40. Mobile reading Standalone Twilight app by Iceberg

41. Mobile reading Standalone Twilight app by Iceberg

42. Mobile reading Stanza searched Google books

43. Mobile reading Stanza searched Google books

44. Mobile reading Stanza bookshelf

45. RSS! RSS!

46. RSS! RSS!

47. RSS! RSS!

48. RSS! RSS!

49. Mobile reading Google reader headlines

50. Mobile reading Google reader

51. Mobile reading Google reader photos

52. Mobile reading Google reader images – anything with an rss feed

55. My Ten Favorite Sources for Free eBooks

56. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 1. Google books Ten places for FREE ebooks

57. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 1. Google books Ten places for FREE ebooks

58. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 1. Google books Ten places for FREE ebooks

59. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 1. Google books Ten places for FREE ebooks

60. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 2. hiplit— Harper Teen listserv Ten places for FREE ebooks

61. 3. Project Gutenberg

62. 3. Project Gutenberg

63. 3. Project Gutenberg

64. 3. Project Gutenberg

65. 3. Project Gutenberg

66. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 4. Free Kindle books on Amazon.com Ten places for FREE ebooks

67. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 5. Creative Commons Books Ten places for FREE ebooks

68. 6. fullbooks.com

69. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 7. bn. com Ten places for FREE ebooks

70. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 8. http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm Ten places for FREE ebooks

71. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 8. http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm Ten places for FREE ebooks

72. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 9. fictionwise Ten places for FREE ebooks

73. 50 percent of ebooks are FREE 10. HMCPL Digital Media Zone Ten places for FREE ebooks