eBooks I Love Technology Lafayette Public Library February 5, 2010

People don't read anymore. - Steve Jobs, January 2008 eBooks: There's an app for that. - Steve Jobs, January 2010

Digital Books

source: Forrester Research, 2009

eBooks By The Numbers U.S. consumer eBook purchases 2009: 3 million 2010: 6 million, estimate U.S. dedicated reading devices sold 2009: 3 million 2010: 10 million, estimate Number of downloads of public library eBooks : 10 million 2009: 19 million sources: Forrester Research and Overdrive, 2010

eBook revenue growth chart source: Forrester Research, 2009

First eBook 1971

Project Gutenberg ( Began in 1971 by Michael S. Hart Started with the Declaration of Independence By 1987 he had added over 300 eBooks to the project volunteers scanned other public domain eBooks 100,000 eBooks are available 3 million eBooks are downloaded each month

early 1990s Cost of computer media storage dropped Internet expanded from universities to homes and businesses File sharing exploded around the world Advances in scanning technology Growth in personal computing - laptops

PDAs became popular Dedicated Reading Devices begin to sell Rocket eBook Franklin E-Bookman Palm Pilot MobiPocket and Peanut Press, two of the first eBookstores opened Electronic Paper Displays drop in price - begin use in consumer products, Ex: E Ink Amazon.com buys Mobipocket Sony releases Reader Amazon releases Kindle

Amazon Kindle, November 2007

E Ink

E Ink contains millions of microcapsules Positively charged white particles Negatively charged black particles Suspended in a clear fluid Plastic film screen laminated to a circuit layer Display controlled by giving the film an electric charge Paper-like display, very low power usage, long battery life 200 dpi+ grayscale

E Ink - How It Works

Advantages of eBooks

Music has gone digital Video has gone digital What about Books? What is the advantage to going digital?

Advantages of eBooks For Consumers: Portable Font Available Books stay in perfect condition Hard to damage Multiple devices For Libraries: Shelf reading not required The dog did not eat your book, and the staff did not forget to check it in No overdue fines, or notices, ever Library service becomes more valuable to those who could not visit during regular hours

Current Dedicated Reading Devices Popular eBook Readers

Amazon Kindle 2 $259 Largest collection of new releases/bestsellers $9.99 for bestsellers 3G Whispernet 6" E Ink Screen 2 Gig Internal Memory text-to-speech capability AZW File Format, no EPUB

Barnes and Noble nook $259 6" E Ink Screen Color LCD Input Screen 2 Gig Internal Memory 3G and WiFi Connectivity EPUB and EDP File Formats

The Sony Reader Pocket Edition $199 5" E Ink Screen 512mb Internal Memory No 3G or WiFi Connectivity EPUB File Format

Apple iPad $ " LCD Screen 16 Gig Internal Memory Touch Screen Input WiFi EPUB File Format

Read eBooks on your iPhone or iPod Touch with apps like Kindle and Stansa. Advantage: Many consumers already own device.

How Much Do eBooks Cost?

Most of the Device Manufacturers have their own eBookstores. Amazon Barnes and Noble Sony Prices for eBooks range from $5.99 for eBooks on sale to for bestsellers and new releases.

New Independent EPUB Bookstores are growing Ex: Kobo Books Most books $8.99 to $ Several books sell for less than $5.00

How much are you willing to pay for an eBook? More importantly, how much profit are publishers willing to give up? Publishers make the pricing decisions. Amazon has attempted to hold bestseller prices below $10. Are eBook sales taking money away from print books in large numbers? Not as much as you would think. Do publishers have an incentive to "kill" eBooks? What impact will Apple make? Biggest question of 2010.

Sony eBookStore links to One Million Free Google Books

Copy of Longfellow's Evangeline from OpenLibrary.org

eBook File Formats

Amazon Kindle Plain Text PDF MobiPocket.AZW (properitary) B & N nook EPUB PDF eReader (properitary) Sony Reader Plain Text EPUB PDF BB eBook (proprietary)

Table of File Formats: listed by Hardware Device & File Format

EPUB Open eBook standard of the International Digital Publishing Forum EPUB file format has the extension.epub EPUB is designed to have reflowable content, meaning the text can be changed for each device as needed for easier reading Pages re-justify smoothly as font and screen size change EPUB is an XHTML-based format It supercedes the older Open Book format

Tools for Conversion and Editing of eBooks

Why would you want to convert or edit an eBook? Grab something from the web and read it on your device. Convert a file saved in one format to another format. All formats have different properties. Edit a file format to unlock features. Create an eBook to share with others.

Calibre - eBook Conversion Software

Calibre - Converting File Formats

EPUB eBook Editor - Sigil

Digital Rights Management

eBook Digital Rights Management Nearly all eBooks have some form of Digital Rights Management. eBook DRM: copy protection that follows the eBook and the device the work is registered on. Publishers use it to keep eBooks from being pirated and illegally shared; however it also limits legitimate buyers from using eBooks they already own in ways they want. Ex: What happens to all the eBooks you bought for your Kindle when you buy a nook after having a Kindle for two years? DRM free eBooks may not happen any time soon. Buyers can protect themselves by purchasing eBooks that are formatted to some standard, like EPUB. These can at least be read on multiple devices, even though they still have DRM restrictions.

eBook Privacy Concerns

Privacy: Who knows what you are reading and should you be concerned? EFF's eBook Buyer's Guide to Privacy Can What You Read Be Monitored? Google Books: Yes, books and pages viewed are stored Amazon Kindle: Yes, books and pages read are stored B&N nook: N/A Sony Reader: No, Does not collect data on device Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation, January 2010

EFF's eBook Buyer's Guide to Privacy, Jan 2010 Do companies track what books you purchase or checkout? Google Books: Yes, all items are associated with a google account Amazon Kindle: Yes, a purchase history is compiled for each account B&N nook: Yes and No, online B&N purchases are compiled but books obtained somewhere else are not tracked Sony Reader: Yes and No, online Sony Reader Store purchases are compiled but books obtained somewhere else are not tracked

eBooks for Library Patrons

NetLibrary eBooks

Ingram Digital's MyiLibrary.com

Icon from Sony eBookStore

Sony "Library Finder"

Overdrive Compatible eBook Devices

"Most Downloaded" eBook list from overdrive

Overdrive Digital Lafayette Public Library South Regional Library - January 22, 2010

Overdrive Digital Lafayette Public Library South Regional Library - January 22, 2010

Overdrive's eBook Media Partners, January 2010

E-Library Co-Op of Southeast Louisiana: St. Charles Parish Library, St. John the Baptist Parish Library, Terrebonne Parish Library

Overdrive Bayouland E-Library Co-Op begins in 2010 Co-Op Libraries: Acadia Parish Library Iberia Parish Library Lafayette Public Library St. Martin Parish Library St. Mary Parish Library Vermilion Parish Library Materials Available: Digital AudioBooks EPUB eBooks

Starting in The Bayouland E-Library Co-Op

Downloading Library eBooks to your Computer or eBook Reader How to:

Link to Book "Scat" saved to my desktop in Win XP.

1.8mb EPUB eBook "Scat" downloading to Adobe Digital Editions.

eBook "Scat" now ready to read inside Adobe Digital Editions. Notice "7-days" band on upper right corner of book. The countdown drops each day, until it reads "expired" on the 8th day.

The eBook "Scat" can be now be opened, deleted, or returned to Overdrive/Library so that someone else can read it.

Opening the book inside Adobe Digital Editions, I can begin to read "Scat". I click on "Chapter- One" in the left-hand column and ADE takes me to page 5 of 237. Page five is the first page of chapter one. By using the ADE menu at the top, I can change the text to whatever style/size I'm comfortable.

I have now decided to transfer the eBook "Scat" to my Sony Reader. I click and drag the eBook to my "PRS-300" in the left-hand column. Notice the "Red X" on the cover of the book.

I now have the eBook directly over the PRS-300 folder icon. Notice the "Red X" has changed to a "Green +" letting me know I am directly over the folder and ready to "drop" the file into my Sony Reader.

Clicking on the PRS-300 icon, I see that I now have 5 eBooks on my Sony Reader. Adobe Digital Editions allows access to all the eBooks on my Sony Reader, as well as all eBooks inside Adobe Digital Editions on my Windows computer at the same time.

"Scat" now ready to read on my Sony Reader !