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eBooks and Approval Plans

eBooks and Approval Plans. Rick Lugg R2 Consulting E-Books & Beyond. The Immediate Future. eBooks as books Monographs, not reference Monographs, not packages eBooks as online, limited download eBooks in relation to print books eBooks as enablers for selection

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eBooks and Approval Plans

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  1. eBooks and Approval Plans Rick Lugg R2 Consulting E-Books & Beyond R2 Consulting

  2. The Immediate Future • eBooks as books • Monographs, not reference • Monographs, not packages • eBooks as online, limited download • eBooks in relation to print books • eBooks as enablers for selection • eBooks as a very small problem R2 Consulting

  3. Today’s Premises The eBook is well suited to approval plans, regardless of whether any electronic copies are sold. Selection and acquisition of monographs will continue to occur at the individual title level. R2 Consulting

  4. How Libraries Buy Books • Most sales occur through vendors, not directly from publishers • Approval plans • Firm orders • Standing orders • Vendor Web databases • Retrospective/Opening Day CD R2 Consulting

  5. Why Use Vendors? • Consolidated ordering • Single customer service contact • Cost of going direct • Consolidated invoicing • Value-added services R2 Consulting

  6. Value-Added Services • MARC Records • Duplication control • Edition preferences • Electronic ordering • Electronic invoicing • Support for local data & workflows • Approval plans R2 Consulting

  7. Approval Plans • Content description (Book-in-hand) • New titles • Fully classified & described • Extended metadata (interdisc; geog) • Non-subject parameters (format, etc.) • Interest description • Library/Selector profiles • LC/DDC/Thesaurus • Publisher Universe • Non-subject parameters (e.g., edition) R2 Consulting

  8. Approval Plans (cont.) • Weekly shipment or announcement of relevant new titles • 40-50,000 titles per year • Books and slips sorted by discipline/fund/selector • Thousands of units shipped weekly • 100’s of K’s of announcements • Slips • Online (GOBI, Collection Manager, etc) • Cataloging, processing, e-invoices R2 Consulting

  9. Blackwell’s YBP Coutts Midwest Ambassador Franklin Eastern Book House Baker & Taylor Ingram BWI Brodart US Library Vendors R2 Consulting

  10. eBooks and Approval Plans • eBooks should be integrated into existing print selection channels until critical mass is reached • eBooks can be used to reduce costs and stimulate sales of print • eBooks can provide the best evaluation tool for buyers, profilers, selectors • From book-in-hand to book-in-view • Content selection and edition choice R2 Consulting

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  15. eBooks can be used… • To reduce returns from vendors • To lower shipping costs • To reduce returns from libraries • To evaluate for approval buying • To profile for libraries • To create a “virtual approval shelf” • To evaluate for library acquisition • To promote other editions • To enrich vendor databases • To provide surrogates for cataloging R2 Consulting

  16. These eBook uses will… • Reduce costs for publishers, vendors, and libraries • Improve timeliness of delivery • Stimulate print sales • Insert eBook selection into well-established procedures • Position eBooks as one option for content delivery • Seed the library eBook market • Open the door to print-on-demand R2 Consulting

  17. Glimmers • Ebrary Preview Service in Blackwell’s Collection Manager • netLibrary editions in Collection Manager and available through many vendors • 8,000 eBook records in YBP’s GOBI (from Informata’s ED) • OverDrive’s Content Reserve R2 Consulting

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  22. What’s Needed • More content • More frontlist • 10-15 minute access control • Simultaneous consideration of print & electronic variants of content • System support for online & download to PC or PDA • Excerpts (cover, preface, TOC) • Start now and build • Adapt to the market R2 Consulting

  23. Other Models • Digital Reference (BBS initiative) • Collections (netLibrary, ED) • Databases (ebrary, Questia) • Direct to Publisher: Oxford; Kluwer; Taylor & Francis; ABC-Clio • Multi-publisher collection with value added (xrefer) • To Host or Not to Host R2 Consulting

  24. Thank you • Rick Lugg • R2 Consulting • Rick@r2consulting.org • www.ebookmap.net R2 Consulting

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