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ebrary confidential Presented to ICOLC April 18, 2002
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ebrary confidential About ebrary Offering History Funding Partners Customers Introduction
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ebrary confidential To be the global standard technology platform for the secure digital distribution and management of copyright protected and confidential documents. Introduction Mission
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ebrary confidential One technology – multiple products & markets Market Strategy Secure document distribution platform Publishers ebrarianASPEnterprise S/W Libraries Publishing & Media LibrariesGovernment Corporate $29.8B: 2004 $14B: 2005 $10B: 2007 ebrary.com Internet Consumers Document Producers Multiple Products Multiple Markets Value Propositions Single Technology 370B web searches/yr High Value Content Integration of Digital Resources Secure, flexible distribution Cost reduction Incremental revenues Secure, flexible document distribution & management Operating efficiencies
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ebrary confidential Access, integration & interaction ebrarian
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ebrary confidential Multiple business models Pay-Per-Use, Pay-Per-View, Time-, Percent-, and Subscription-based Open Access, User Authentication, Multi-tier usage management Business models
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ebrary confidential Marketing/Sales Strategy - Indirect What We Don’t Do: Spend money on advertising Spend money on direct sales Spam students and patrons
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ebrary confidential Marketing/Sales Strategy - Indirect Non-exclusive partnerships with… Consortia Regional Networks Distributors (international) Search engines (internet)
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ebrary confidential Marketing/Sales Strategy - Indirect What We Do: Partner w/consortia, regional networks, distributors 90% of libraries purchase through these organizations or based on their recommendations Joint marketing programs (newsletters, press releases, trial sites) Trial programs Complimentary 30-day trial Offered through ebrary and partners Public Relations Ongoing coverage in trades, consumer press Monthly Newsletter Tradeshows, events, vendor days
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ebrary confidential Marketing/Sales Strategy - Indirect What We Do: Differentiate - consumer-facing vs. patron-facing Pricing Product features Advertising
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ebrary confidential How is it working? Consortia - Peninsula Library System… Regional Networks – PALINET, WILS, AMIGOS, BCR, NELINET, OhioNet, MLC Distributors – elibro, Coutts, IGROUP… Search engines - FAST, WiseNut… Libraries - > 600 trials since March Internet – 50% growth month-to-month
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ebrary confidential ebrarian™ for Libraries Multi-user access to quality content at an affordable price Authoritative books from 100+ leading publishers Integrates with existing OPAC/digital resources Affordable price based on FTE ebrary InfoTools™ – patented technology Word or phrase level interaction – every word becomes a portal to more information and knowledge Instant access to definitions, maps, biographical, translations, etc. Navigation by page, search result or table of contents Automatic annotations, highlighting, bookmarks
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ebrary confidential Quality Content Recent Titles from 100+ Top Publishers 30,000 titles under contract Majority published w/in 2 years Over 9,800 delivered; 5,000 live Partners include 25 leading academic presses (Yale, Princeton, Harvard, MIT, etc.) Expanding Collections in Key Subject Areas Business & Economics Computers & Technology History, Classics Education Political Science Philosophy
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ebrary confidential Publishing Partners
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ebrary confidential Affordable pricing model: ebrarian for libraries - annual FTE-based pricing Print/copy transactions are (~.15 to $.25 per page) Includes access to primary collection of ~6,000 titles Value = ~$200K+ to purchase in print * Multi-user access ebrary is continually growing its collections Updates provided at no additional charge 30,000 titles under contract Options for … Primary collection FTE-based (unlimited p rint/copy) Premium collection FTE-based (unlimited p rint/copy) * Blackwells 2002 List Price
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ebrary confidential Q & A
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ebrary confidential Board of Directors and Advisors Outside Directors Douglas Kuback – CTO, Pearson Education Richard Sarnoff – President, Random House New Media and Corporate Development Group John Warnock – Co-founder and Chairman, Adobe Systems, Inc. Advisory Board Michael A. Keller – Director, Stanford University Libraries Roger Summit – Former CEO and Chairman, Emeritus Dialog Corp. Craig Cline – VP Program Development, Ziff Davis Events Mario Rosati, – Partner, Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati Team
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