E-books and Audiobooks and Overdrive, Oh My.
Michael Washburn, Missouri River Regional Library
Robin Hastings, Missouri River Regional Library
In January 2011 Kindle ebooks surpassed the paperbook sales on Amazon.
Current Trends
-Kindle
-Nook
-iPad
All of these are dedicated ereaders, hopefully as this continues to grow there will become a universal reader.
Adding to the mess of having difference dedicated ereaders, is digital rights management. It can be challenging licensing ebooks that patrons check-out from the library
Digital Rights Management allows the company an assurance and security that only one person can check-out a book and read it at a time. This cuts down on piracy, but it can also mean barriers for people who are trying to access the ebooks legally.
Future Trends
-Limits to checkouts/use
--Purchasing a license rather than a book. HarperCollins requires libraries to repurchase an ebook after 26 check-outs.
-Libraries in a holding pattern
-Changes to the business of publishing
--Authors are publishing directly to Kindle, rather than going the normal route
-E-Textbooks (Nook Study)
--Can rent them for 60 or 90 days, KNO-textbook application for the iPad, Released June 4th
Missouri Libraries 2 Go - consortium for libraries that provide audiobooks and eBooksto their patrons.
Can possibly create a perception of patrons that have devices and those that do not have the devices. At this time while some libraries provide ereaders, but there is a licensing issue because the ereaders are supposed to be a one use, one person item.
Overdrive is a free software that allows patrons to download ebooks and e-audiobooks that are available from libraries. Overdrive currently does not work with Kindle, but they have recently come to an agreement with Amazon.
***This session was great. It really made me think about some options that need to be discussed with my faculty and the support of their online courses. I am currently purchasing ebooks, but only through NetLibrary because of us having an account with them. I think that we are missing the big picture when it comes to ebooks and we need (meaning I need) to start branching out.***
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