By Kate Sheehan
The booklet Revolution: A Primer for Librarians at the entrance Lines is strictly what its name grants: a necessary source for librarians dealing with the ambitious activity of coordinating the library-wide transition to eBooks and fielding questions from buyers approximately eBooks on an everyday basis.
After an creation that covers the fundamentals of eBooks and present publication expertise, the writer places issues into point of view, documenting the alterations that experience happened over the last decade. She additionally delves into vital e-book concerns, determining librarian-driven suggestions and offering glimpses of what libraries within the close to destiny might be like. The publication examines perennially severe matters reminiscent of accessibility, source sharing, and the electronic divide in the context of e-book expertise and gives a transparent framework for discussing eBooks, thereby allowing readers to make proficient judgements concerning their very own agencies.
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Pew’s findings regarding eBooks and libraries will not surprise most librarians. Among those who do not read eBooks, 62 percent didn’t know if their public library offered eBooks. Among eBook readers who do not get eBooks at their public library, 96 percent have not tried to download an eBook from the library. Those who had borrowed eBooks from their public library found the 30 The eBook Revolution selection surprisingly good. Thirty-two percent called the selection good; 34 percent called it excellent or very good.
A tiered model, with options to own and access on a per-title basis, is a popular concept, but it has yet to be offered by any publisher or vendor. The marketplace has not been producing solutions that are sustainable for libraries. As Andromeda Yelton asks, “If we buy into a status quo today that can triple ebook prices and slash how often a book can circulate overnight, what will be the terms for the must-have content of 2020? What content or services might we have to cut then to support the system we’re cultivating now?
Baker and Taylor actively pursued smaller libraries, “because the company noticed many of them were relying on consortial arrangements to afford startup costs of ebook platforms but that, once in the consortium, they sometimes felt they were not getting equal access to content” (Kelley 2012e). The company is also adding content from the self-publishing site Smashwords to Axis 360. Baker and Taylor has a long history with libraries and other library vendors. Although Axis 360 currently does not have the same depth of content or device compatibility that other eBook vendors offer, those features are more easily developed than the long-term relationships that Baker and Taylor already enjoys.