The E-book: Today and Tomorrow

1. The E-book:Today and Tomorrow Hope N. Tillman, Babson College Walt Howe, Delphi Forums Monday, November 5, 2001

2. Topics to be covered • e-book hardware • e-book software • converting • e-publishers and booksellers • digital textbooks • library community products • standards • rights management • copyright/security issues • future trends

3. Hardware - November 2001 • Dedicated ebook devices • RCA REB1100 and REB1200 • Rocket and Softbook (no longer made) • Cybook goReader • MyFriend • Tablet computers that can be used to read ebooks • AlphaBook HPW-630ETR (ePlate) • Microsoft tablet pc (still concept) • Qbe Original & Vivo Sharp RW-A230 • Voyager by Monec Web Pad • WebPad WebPAD • WebTablet Xerox Gyricon E-Ink

4. Example: RCA REB1200

5. Example: Microsoft Tablet PC (concept)

6. E-Paper • Xerox Gyricon • E-Ink

7. Hardware - November 2001 • Handheld/Pocket • Aero 1550 IPAQ H3600 Cassiopeia E-115, EM-500 • Datamyte 4000 • eBookMan by Franklin HP Jornada Hiebook • Palm SIMpad • TouchPC Voyager Visor • Phone • SAGEM WA 3050 a full dual-band GSM phone

8. Hardware – Nov. 2000 • Softbook Reader from Softbook Press (Gemstar) • Rocket e-Book from NuvoMedia (Gemstar) • RCA REB1100 and REB1200 (Thomson Multimedia) • Palm Pilot/ Windows CE devices, incl. Handspring Visor • Pocket PC Devices: Hewlett-Packard's Jornada 545 • EB Dedicated Reader • Glassbook Reader Device

9. Software Readers • For Palm OS • Adobe Acrobat • Aportis • Iambic • Isilo • MobiPocket • Palm Reader • Primer PDF • Qvadis Express

10. Software Readers • For Franklin OS - Franklin • OEB • Echyon Reader • Flip Browser • PC • Ebrary Info Tools • HieBook Reader • Microsoft Reader • MobiPocket • NetLibrary • TK3 • Adobe • Windows CE • MobiPocket

11. Software Readers -specialized • Bookwormie – multilingual (different character sets) • BrailleNote • Smart Reader – math/sci/engineering • SVG Viewer • TK3 Reader – multimedia • WAX - for KM projects

12. Display features Typeface Linked table of contents Linked index Search Bookmarking Annotations and Highlighter Dictionary Scrolling

13. Converting The following are a sample of what is currently available as converters and publishers: • Acrobat 5.0 and Capture • Activ E-Book Compiler • Memoware (iSolo) – see their conversion table • Microsoft Reader add-in for Microsoft Word • Overdrive • Rocket Writer • X-it (Quark to XML)

14. Example: Rocket Writer

15. Publishers Publishers are looking at variety of choices to make their products available electronically while protecting their rights See (Barnes & Noble), Powells, GemStar and (NetLibrary) list of publishers • McGraw-Hill • Random House • Simon & Schuster • Time Warner

16. Vanity Publishers Minimal barriers to entry into publishing ebooks • 1st Books • BiblioBytes • Book Locker • Buy Books on the Web • FatBrain – Mighty Words (eMatter) • NightKitchen • Online Originals • Spirit Virtual Books • TK3 by Night Kitchen • Universal Publishers • Xlibris

17. Lightning Source • http://www.lightningsource.com • Lightning Source Inc., a subsidiary of Ingram Industries Inc. is "The Digital Content Connection"SM • Print-on-demand • Vanity publishing

18. The Morphing of Book Sellers (Vanity Publishing Plus) • Alex Catalog of Etexts • http://www.infomotions.com/alex • BookonWeb - http://www.bookonweb.com/ • (Contentville) – closed this month • Fictionwise – http://www.fictionwise.com • KnowBetter.com – http://www.knowbetter.com • The Library Place (informata.com)

19. eBooks on Demand There are minimal barriers to entry into publishing electronic books as opposed to becoming a print publisher • Mightywords http://www.mightywords.com • St. Barthelemy Press http://www.stbarthelemypress.com/

20. Audio eBooks • Audible • http://www.audible.com

21. Digital Textbooks (K-12 and beyond) • Digital textbooks, offer a learning environment for a new generation of students by combining the strength of great academic content with the exciting capabilities of the personal computer and the Internet! Digital textbooks encourage integration, creative exploration, and active investigation • Wizeup – http://www.wizeup.com • Addison-Wesley – http://www.aw.com • Metatext - http://www.metatext.com • Thomson eLearning (http://www.archipelago.com/) • Jones Knowledge.com http://www.jonesknowledge.com • Blackboard, etc. http://www.blackboard.com

22. Sampling Textbook Publishing • Web sites for supplementary materials, workbooks, exercises, case studies, exams, teachers manuals, prefaces, and bibliographies • Easy updating • A few players • Addison Wesley – statistics • http://www.aw.com/stats/ • http://www.awlonline.com/triola • Allyn & Bacon/Longman (Pearson) • http://vig.abacon.com/ • Southwestern Publishing http://www.swcollege.com/ • Thomson Learning http://www.thomsonlearning.com/

23. Companies Focusing on Library Community • Going to the publisher world and converting output to digital format those things that began life as print • NetLibrary http://www.netlibrary.com • Questia http://www.questia.com • Ebrary http://www.ebrary.com • MeansBusiness http://www.meansbusiness.com

24. Open eBook Forumhttp://www.openebook.org/ • OEBPS (open ebook publication structure) is a nonproprietary, open format. • Plan is for companies developing tools to convert proprietary formats into OEB • Subset of HTML tags • Leverage the current installed base of data in html, tools, creation tools, etc. • Cascading style sheet subset • Use Dublin core • A goal is XML validity (desired, not required)

25. Common Coding Standards • .OEB/.HTML/.XML – open • .PDF – Adobe • .LIT – Microsoft • .PDB – Palm • .RB - Rocket/REB • .TXT – ASCII, text • .TK3 – Night Kitchen

26. Standards: Digital Rights Management • XrML – open • http://www.xrml.org • InterTrust – http://www.intertrust.com • Reciprocal – http://www.reciprocal.com • Rights Market – http://www.rightsmarket.com

27. Digital Rights Management Issues • Restructuring of ownership relationships between readers and publishers • Migration issues • Will ownership be backwardly compatible? --migrate to next reader? • Change in expectation about a book’s persistence • Impact on Publishers

28. Standards: Security/Copyright Protection • EBX – of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) met with the Open eBook Forum (12/2000) and plans to combine as a focal point for standards activities related to electronic publishing. • http://www.ebxwg.org

29. Intellectual Property Issues • Ebook devices as a intellectual property control system Viewing platforms and IP control systems • Ebook devices today as closed intellectual property control systems • Content locked into digital books –can’t share with other people • Issues with privacy

30. Genres which fled print early or developed online persona • Encyclopedias, many dictionaries • Databases in print, i.e. Science Citation Index • Redesigned content portals: MeansBusiness • http://www.meansbusiness.com • Primary sources for American history: Making of America • Scholarly web sites – Perseus site at Tufts, Romantic Circles work

31. The Making of America http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/

32. The Tufts Perseus Project http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

33. Devices versus Computers • Devices/appliances can be substitutable for books • Some products can accommodate to ebook devices while others need the full power of desktop computing • Nonlinear work does not do well on today’s devices • Devices/appliances and computers are converging

34. Portable Library rather than Portable Book? • What will be impact of much larger, cheaper storage space? • Storage will get cheaper – will have object that holds entire library, not just 10-20 books • What happens when the content of resources more valuable than device? • What about portability to the next generation?

35. Where will the future take us? • Where will the potential of print on demand lead? • Will anything ever be out of print? • What will electronic paper/ink be used for: replace, create new or live along side? • What about standards? • What about wireless? • What about convergence?

36. Library Use of E-Books Chris Rippel - Online notes for e-book preconference at Kansas Triconference 2000 • http://skyways.lib.ks.us/central/ebooks/libraries.html See individual web sites: Babson College http://www.babson.edu/library/ North Carolina State University http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/colmgmt/ebooks/ Charlotte and Mecklenberg County http://www.plcmc.lib.nc.us/rocketebook/ Worthington Ohio http://www.worthingtonlibraries.org/noflash/ebooks/ Springfield-Greenfield County Library District • http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/ebooks/ebooks.htm

37. References • Hawkins, Donald T. Electronic Books. Online: part 1, July/August 2000, and part 2, September/October 2000 • Lynch, Clifford. Electrifying the Book, Library Journal Supplement Net Connect: part 1, October 15, 1999, and part 2, January 2000 • Ohler, Jason. Taming the Technological Beast: The Case of the E-Book. The Futurist, January-February 2001, pp. 16-21 • Randolph, Susan E. Are e-books in Your Future? Information Outlook, February 2001, pp. 22-28. • Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1993

38. Web Sites • http://www.knowbetter.com • They publish the weekly E-book Informer that alerts to new titles available for the most popular ebook formats • http://www.planetebook.com

39. Contacts Hope Tillman Babson College Horn Library Babson Park MA 02457 Hope@hopetillman.com http://www.hopetillman.com Walt Howe Delphi Forums 6 Saw Mill Brook Way Woburn MA 01801 Walt@walthowe.com http://www.walthowe.com

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