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A Public-Private E-book Platform :
BF/IBF Annual Conference, June 18th 2010ohan Delauré, program manager Bibnet
Threats and opportunities in the digitalization of the reading culture
Summary
1. Is e-reading relevant?
2. Why a governement initiative?
3. The USP of the library
4. Realization
1. Is e-reading relevant?
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Education
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Reading…
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Multimedia reading : devices
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Multimedia reading: content and applications
Playlane’s moving books
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Multimedia reading: Digital magazines
• www.flashpageflip.com
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Multimedia reading
• "It's not about the page versus the screen in a technological grudge match. It's about the screen doing a dozen things the page can't do.” (Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age; Gomez, Jeff; 2007).
• “ The vook” (Bradley Inman):
a multimedia hybrid
digital amalgam
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And then what about our libraries?
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And then what about our bookshops?
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The value chain shifts digital
-> Collection becomes digital-> Access becomes online-> Medium becomes mult imedia(However: the old book will stay also. )
-> people deal differently with information-> Google, Facebook, Twitter, mobile internet,
gaming=> “Reading” => “Digital Reading”
-> media are converging-> implosion off music market; crisis at
newspapers=> “Publishing”=> “Digital Publishing”
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Challenges and threats…
2. Why a governement initiative?
How it started…
The confederation of the Flemish Publishers Association (Vlaamse uitgevers Vereniging), the united book importers (Verenigde Boekenimporteurs) and the Flemish Booksellers Association (Vlaamse Boekverkopersbond)
Consulting…
Some references
Studie Vlaams e-boekplatform voor opslag en exploitatie in opdracht van Bibnet - IBBT/SMIT – 2009http://www.slideshare.net/VVBAD/braeckman-jan-ppt
eBooks via de bibliotheek – TNO – 2010http://www.stichtingbibliotheek.nl/Nieuws-TNOrapport%20e-books.htm
Brave New World, Digitisation of Content: the opportunities for booksellers and The Booksellers Association – 2006http://http://www.booksellers.org.uk/Industry-Info/Industry-Reports/Book-Industry-General/E-Books.aspx
Rapport sur le livre numérique - Ministere de la culture et de la ̀communication – République Française – 2008http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/conferen/albanel/rapportpatino.pdf
Report on business models, Arrow, eContentplus - 2009No digital reference found
Etude en vue de l’élaboration d’un modèle économique de participation des éditeurs à la bibliothèque numérique européenne (Europeana), D. Zwirn – 2007EUROPEANA-NUMILOG2007.pdf
And more…
Purpose of public libraries
IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions – 1999 Den Hague – (http://archive.ifla.org/faife/policy/iflastat/iflastat_nl.htm) affirms:
Libraries provide access to information, ideas and works of imagination. They serve as gateways to knowledge, thought and culture.
Libraries provide essential support for lifelong learning, independent decision-making and cultural development for both individuals and groups.
Libraries contribute to the development and maintenance of intellectual freedom and help to safeguard basic democratic values and universal civil rights.
Relevance of reading for policy
Joint declaration by the European Booksellers Federation (EBF) and the Federation of European Publishers (FEP)) (Brussels, 5 October 2009:
Reading plays a crucial part in the knowledge society and, as a consequence, in disseminating culture and enhancing competitiveness and employment; governments should therefore pledge to support all stakeholders of the book sector through adequate cultural, fiscal and industrial policies.
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The value chain evolves
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• Long term• Bookshop retraits to the niche of the physical
book• International players will determine the
information- and culture consumption• Libraries will quench• Government offside
If we don’t do anything
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A Flemish platform
3. Why libraries?
The collection
• Divers, broad
• For ALL ages
• Independent
• “Life from A to Z”
• Selected quality
• Longer term
Access
Immediate in function of education, development
To taste and develop taste
Low threshold
Organized
Ordered, classified, arranged, thematic, 360°
Portal, mash up
Reinventing the library
Assuring for the digital publications:-Broad Flemish collection-Availability for thematic mash-ups-Non-commercial services on full text, etc..-Availibility for temporary loan
⇒Infrastructure
A new business model
Which business model could be acceptable both to the financial bearing of the public libraries and the expectancies of publishers en authors?
Can we relate the business model to the democratic role of the public library and the added value of the bookshop?
4. Realization
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E-boek platform
• Develop a digital platform in a public-private collaboration, for the secure and long term storage of digital born editions in function of their pluriform exploitation by the different actors in the book ecosystem:• Authors, publishers, distributors, commerce, library,
aggregators… and readers
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Collaboration
Public Libraries Publishers, distributors
Vlaams e-boek platform
FacilitatingNeutrality
ContentDiversity
Digital access Digital sales
Bibnet Boek.be
What is the cost? What is the return ?
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www.innovatiefaanbesteden.be
Innovative Procurement
“The governement buys innovation”Timing:
2009 concept2010 partners2010-2011 prototype2011-2012: procurement and production
Functioneel…
Lange termijn opslag
(extern)
E-boek formats
Normalisatie
Beveiligde opslag
Transcodatie
API’sFull Text
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Metadata
WP3 WP2
WP5
WP4
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Vep functional architecture schema
E-boek platformis niet:…
- Digitizing
+ Digital born content
-web shop
+ facilitating distribution
- e-reader
+ facilitating content
Vep is not:
E-boek platformIs niet …
- An island
+ embedded serviceplatform
- digital depot
+ facilitating heritage of tomorrow
- piracy
+ controlled access
And Vep is not:
E-boek platform
uitdagingen….• Business modelling and rights• Storage protocol for multimedia: PDF,
mobi, ePUB, XML,…• Open technology for integrating browsing
full text search, in other environments• Access and security• Keeping up with evolution
Innovation Chalenges
• Facilitating business modelling;• Facilitating Flemisch e-book;• Streamlining distribution;• Streamlining in function of “heritage of
tomorrow”;• Economies of scale in providing an infrastructuur• Warranting non-commercial services as browsing,
metadata, full text search
Aims of the innovation platform
B2B…
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Timing
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