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“Kali, Avatar of the eBook” by Javier Candeira Speaker: Deborah Lenares, Wellesley College Libraries have been relatively quietly collecting ebooks for years, but it wasn’t until the Kindle came out that public interest in ebooks was aroused. Users exposure and expectations for ebooks has been raised, with notable impact on academic libraries. [...] “Book & Phone Book” by Lynn Gardner Speakers: Michael Levine-Clark & Christopher C. Brown, University of Denver If someone checks out a physical book, do you know if they really read it? If someone accesses an ebook, do you know if they really read it? If a faculty member has a print [...] “One size fits all. Welcome to the 80′s” by Stephan van Es Speaker: Anne McKee, GWLA SERU was heavily involved in putting this session together. SERU hopes to put away with the madness of licensing and come up with mutually agreeable terms. Most libraries purchase ebooks in order to make them available 24/7 to [...] “Looking through spy glass” by Arild Nybø Hypothesis: Rapid publishing output and a wide disparity of publishing sources and formats has made finding the right content at the right time harder for librarians. Speaker: Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords Old model of publishing was based on scarcity, with publishers as mediators for everything. Publishers [...] “Reading my Kindle in the hammock” by Joanna Penn Speaker: Hutch Tibbetts Background: Ebooks and ebook readers (and tablets) are increasing in use in the US. E-only publishers are giving authors a much larger percent of sales than the traditional print publishers, and the percentage is (of course) even higher for self-published authors. How [...] |
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