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The Emerging Role of eBooks

ALA Midwinter 2005 Briefing. The Emerging Role of eBooks. OCLC Online Computer Library Center. ASIDIC Spring 2007 Meeting March 11-13, 2007 Orlando, Florida. Role of the eContent Aggregator. Note: NetLibrary offers only electronic content. Diverse content Diverse publishers Global reach

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The Emerging Role of eBooks

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  1. ALA Midwinter 2005Briefing The Emerging Role of eBooks OCLC Online Computer Library Center ASIDIC Spring 2007 Meeting March 11-13, 2007 Orlando, Florida

  2. Role of the eContent Aggregator Note: NetLibrary offers only electronic content Diverse content Diverse publishers Global reach Content Security One platform, one web site, with one interface, and one search engine

  3. NetLibrary Catalog eBooks: 130,000+ by year end eJournals: 6,600+ eAudiobooks: 5000+

  4. eResources Today. . . eAudiobooks eBooks eArticles eJournals eDatabases Many containers. . .

  5. Tomorrow’s Vision:Container becomes meaningless eVideo eBook eJournal Historic Database eArticles eLecture Series

  6. OCLC Online Computer Library Center Thank You Marge Gammon Division Vice President, NetLibrary Library & Publisher Services OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. mgammon@netlibrary.org www.netlibrary.org www.oclc.org

  7. Topics for Panel Discussion “Getting the Packaging right” The emerging role of searchable electronic book databases Value Proposition Economic Models and Publisher Issues Technical Issues

  8. E-books Value Proposition • E-books – Jury still out? • Content utilization…. • Reference and Research • Cover constrained? • Learning, Productivity and Training

  9. Economic Models and Publisher Interests • Economic Models • Subscriptions, per use, free • Pricing issues • Cost savings vs. print libraries • Publisher Interests • New market or not? • Royalty models • Reporting

  10. Technical Issues Chunking Conversion Search Tagging

  11. Questions? Comments?

  12. Thank you!!

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