CILDC : EBSCO eBook Trending (lunch meeting)

EBSCO - EBook trending

Business model options

• Direct purchase
• Subscription
• Patron driven acquisition
• Concurrent access

How are business model options trending?

Then... 18 months ago:

1. Subscriptions
2. Purchase
3. Other

Now:

• Subscription and purchase continue to grow.  Other models are shrinking.
• More subscription and purchase models.
• Patron drive purchase is trending relatively well.  Not as positive as subscription and purchase.

Not trending: (negative trending)

• PDA short term loan
• PDa loan to own
• PDA concurrent access
• Concurrent access

Short term loan direction

• Price increases
• Embargoes (1-5 years)

CAM/Non linear lending

• Limited participation 
• Not participating

EBSCO

• Fully supports all models
• Exploring new models

Should use more volatile models selectively.

EBSCO subscription

• Large predefined collections
• All unlimited use
• Subscriptions rate is a small fraction of purchase price

What is the latest with ebook technology and formats?

• ePub
• More optimal end user experience
• An open standard
• Allows for flexibility in terms of embedded content
• Most widely adopted ebook format
• EBSCO offers 120000 ePub titles
• Growing rapidly
• ePub & PDF dual delivery 
• Moving from EPub2 to ePub3 - ePub3 better handles non-Roman languages
• Full text quality
• Extensive production quality control 
• True full text, not scanned images
• Crisp, clear, high quality full text
• Fully searchable, read aloud technology

User experience - Digital Rights Management (DRM)

• Continue to work towards a more relaxed DRM
• Trying to be responsible and coordinate with publisher partners
• Trying to push publishers to relax DRM

User experience - recent

• Concurrent user level in Detail record
• Dual delivery - ePub and PDF

User experience - forthcoming

• Adding publisher permission info to the detail record
• Offline: mobile app
• Online: ebook viewer redesign
• Includes full text display without a browser plug-in
• Updated search within feature
• Automatic including citations in copied text
• Scroll option for PDFs
• Single sign-on - at some point will work with EZ proxy

Year end money & ebooks

• Consider subject sets