1. Electronic books and the liberal arts campus: an early 2010 survey Bryan Alexander National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education

2. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/12/eread-economic-report-president

3. Plan for today’s session E-book readers E-books Ecosystems and decisions Upcoming in 2010 Throughout: campus cases

4. 1. e-book readers

5. Plus multipurpose devicesused for reading

6. Advantages Example of Kindle Cost savings per book Weight savings Subscription updates Dictionary Public domain and other texts by cable Green (less paper) Greater purchasing of books E-ink

7. Problems so far Continuing with the Kindle: Limitations of device interfaces Hardware cost Annotation issues e-book-specific: DRM Title availability Visual quality Multimedia Sharing limitations

8. 2. e-books History: back to the 1970s Campus history: e-reserves

9. File formats txt, html, pdf Epub Kindle (.azw) Fictionbook, Mobipocket Microsoft Reader (.lit)

10. ePub example (EPUBReader Firefox plugin)

11. File formats Greater interactivity: Wikis Multimedia (Nook, Vook) http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/penguins-ipad-formatted-books-shown-off-making-waves/

12. Major e-book projects Humanities E-Book 2,200 Internet Archive “over 30,000 free ebooks” Project Gutenberg “1,893,588 texts” Connexionsdepends on definition

13. Humanities E-Book (HEB)

14. Internet Archive texts

15. Internet Archive texts

16. Project Gutenberg

17. Project Gutenberg

18. Connexions

19. …and Google Books, depending

20. E-reader applications Examples: Stanza (pictured) Calibre EPUBReader (Firefox plugin) Microsoft Reader

21. Ebook advantages Greener Interactivity, multimedia affordances Faster publication cycle Lower cost Flexible presentation (font, etc)

22. Ebook disadvantages Users uncomfortable with digital Publishers’ nerves with copyright Multimedia costs Wiki problems

23. 3. Ecosystems and decisions Combining devices, format, services, and business model Kindle: Amazon store Nook: Barnes and Noble store iPad: iTunes book section

24. Integration with other media Text -> podcast (Gutenberg->Librivox)

25. Campus decision points File format Device tie-in For free or fee? (http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/)

26. Campus points of implementation Library building (Fairleigh Dickinson) Campus bookstore Library portal Courseware Open Web http://web.mit.edu/viz/EM/flash/E&M_Master/E&M.swf

27. 4. Looking ahead in 2010 Vendors expanding market Format expansion and experimentation More academic examples described

28. Much riding on the iPad and tablets

29. Your turn Are you seeing ebooks already on campus?

30. Your turn What ebook implementations (if any) do you foresee for 2010?

31. More resources ELI, 7 Things You Need to Know About E-books, http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutEBook/156823 “, “ “ “ “ “ “ “ e-readers, http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutERead/200539 Trina Marmarelli, Martin Ringle, “The Reed College Kindle Study” http://web.reed.edu/cis/about/kindle_pilot/Reed_Kindle_report.pdf

32. Sources for free ebooks Internet Text Archive, http://www.archive.org/details/texts Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ HEB (if your campus subscribes), http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ Connexions, http://cnx.org/ Online Books Page (Penn), http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ BookBoon, http://bookboon.com/us/student/info/about

33. Even more resources NITLE blog, Techne http://blogs.nitle.org Horizon Report http://www.nmc.org/horizon Bryan’s research Twitter http://twitter.com/bryanalexander