1. www.BCR.org | 800.397.1552 eBook evolution Gillian Harrison, BCR ICOLC April 2008 San Francisco, CA

2. www.BCR.org | 800.397.1552 What is an eBook really? Device or Content Online or Offline Entire book or snippet Purchase or subscription

3. www.BCR.org | 800.397.1552 Back to the beginning? Free – Project Gutenberg, Alex Catalogue Aggregators – NetLibrary, ebrary, Questia, Books 24x7 Publishers – Safari, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Elsevier “Free” – Google, Microsoft

4. www.BCR.org | 800.397.1552 Still fighting the format war… Word HTML Mobipocket Microsoft Reader (LIT) Adobe (PDF) Etc. etc. etc.

5. www.BCR.org | 800.397.1552 Still fighting the platform war… Aggregators (NetLibrary, ebrary, OverDrive, EBL, MyiLibrary) Publishers (Elsevier, Taylor & Francis, Springer) Devices (Sony, Amazon Kindle)

6. www.BCR.org | 800.397.1552 And the access, pricing, packaging, licensing wars… One book/one user vs. unlimited Purchase vs. subscription Annual vs. perpetual Individual titles vs. packages Frontlist vs. backlist

7. www.BCR.org | 800.397.1552 So, what is new? Ability to load content onto platform Ubiquitous MARCs “Previews” before purchase Integrated purchasing/acquisition Other digital content (eAudio, eVideo, etc. on the platform)

8. www.BCR.org | 800.397.1552 Morning Lineup CIC & Ingram/Springer (Kim Armstrong) OCUL & ebrary (Faye Abrams & Warren Holder) SCELC & aggregators (Rick Burke) OhioLink & publishers (Tom Sanville) eBook Readers (Arnold Hirshon) Discussion