Ebooks

Timeline

1971-Michael Hart transcribes the Declaration of Independence into digital format and sends it across a computer network.

1971-Michael Hart founds Project Gutenberg

1998-Libraries begin lending eBooks

2002-Overdrive begins providing ebooks and other digital content for libraries

2004-Google announces its book digitization project

2006-Sony ereader released with e-ink

2007-Kindle released

2009-Nook released

2010-iPad released

2011, May-Amazon sells more ebooks than print books

2011-OverDrive and Amazon announce lending partnership

Major E-Reader formats

•  Amazon (.azw)
• Unique, it is being used to protect Amazon products
• EPub (.epub)
• PDF (.pdf)
• HTML (.html)
• MobiPocket (.mobi)

All E-Reader Formats

.aeh .djvu .epub .fb2 .html .azw .lit .prc .mobi .exe .pdb .txt .pdf .ps .rgo .tr2 .tr3

Click here to compare e-book formats: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats

EReaders

• Dedicated Readers
• E-Ink technology
• Kindle
• Nook
• Sony E-Reader
• Kobo Readers
• LCD Technology
• Nook Color
• Tablets
• iPad

Click here to compare e-readers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_readers

Digital Libraries

• Free options
• Examples
• Open Library
• Contains some recent works
• Downloads to various formats
• Project Gutenberg
• Hathi Trust
• Collection of Colleges/universities
• University of Michigan key partner
• Works as subset of Google Books
• Typically primarily public domain books
• Other Options
• Google Books
• Uses libraries and publishers for content
• Booksellers
• DPLA
• Digital Public Libraries of America
• Attempting to create standards for digital libraries

Lending Methods

• Overdrive
• External platform
• Most popular vendor
• Library does not own the book 
• Integrated with databases
• EBSCO
• Allows various methods of selecting
•  Subject, collection, PDA,
• Library owns the book
• Allow various methods of purchase
• Ownership (Limited, or unlimited users), Short term, PDA, subscription
• ProQuest
• Allow various methods of purchase
• Subscription, ownership, short-term, PDA
• New entries into the market
• 3M (2011)

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