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Electronic books and the liberal
arts campus: an early 2010
survey
Bryan AlexanderNational Institute for Technology in Liberal Education
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/02/12/eread-economic-report-president
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Plan for today’s session
1. E-book readers2. E-books3. Ecosystems and decisions4. Upcoming in 2010
• Throughout: campus cases
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1. e-book readers
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Plus multipurpose devicesused for reading
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Advantages
Example of Kindle• Cost savings per
book• Weight savings• Subscription
updates• Dictionary
• Public domain and other texts by cable
• Green (less paper)• Greater purchasing
of books• E-ink
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Problems so far
Continuing with the Kindle:
• Limitations of device interfaces
• Hardware cost• Annotation issues
e-book-specific:• DRM• Title availability• Visual quality• Multimedia• Sharing limitations
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2. e-books
• History: back to the 1970s• Campus history: e-reserves
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File formats• txt, html, pdf• Epub• Kindle (.azw)
• Fictionbook, Mobipocket
• Microsoft Reader (.lit)
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ePub example (EPUBReader Firefox plugin)
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File formats
Greater interactivity:• Wikis
• Multimedia (Nook, Vook)
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/04/penguins-ipad-formatted-books-shown-off-making-waves/
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Major e-book projects
• Humanities E-Book 2,200• Internet Archive “over 30,000 free ebooks”• Project Gutenberg “1,893,588 texts”• Connexions depends on definition
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Humanities E-Book (HEB)
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Internet Archive texts
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Internet Archive texts
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Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg
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Connexions
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…and Google Books, depending
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E-reader applications
• Examples: • Stanza (pictured) • Calibre• EPUBReader (Firefox plugin)• Microsoft Reader
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Ebook advantages
• Greener• Interactivity, multimedia affordances• Faster publication cycle• Lower cost• Flexible presentation (font, etc)
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Ebook disadvantages
• Users uncomfortable with digital• Publishers’ nerves with copyright• Multimedia costs• Wiki problems
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3. Ecosystems and decisionsCombining devices, format,
services, and business model
• Kindle: Amazon store• Nook: Barnes and Noble
store• iPad: iTunes book section
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Integration with other media
• Text -> podcast (Gutenberg->Librivox)
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Campus decision points
• File format• Device tie-in• For free or fee?
(http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/)
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Campus points of implementation
• Library building (Fairleigh Dickinson)
• Campus bookstore
• Library portal• Courseware• Open Web
http://web.mit.edu/viz/EM/flash/E&M_Master/E&M.swf
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4. Looking ahead in 2010
• Vendors expanding market• Format expansion and experimentation• More academic examples described
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Much riding on the iPad and tablets
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Your turn
Are you seeing ebooks already on campus?
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Your turn
What ebook implementations (if any) do you foresee for 2010?
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More resources• ELI, 7 Things You Need to Know About E-
books, http://www.educause.edu/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutEBook/156823
• “, “ “ “ “ “ “ “ e-readers, http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutERead/200539
• Trina Marmarelli, Martin Ringle, “The Reed College Kindle Study” http://web.reed.edu/cis/about/kindle_pilot/Reed_Kindle_report.pdf
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Sources for free ebooks• Internet Text Archive,
http://www.archive.org/details/texts • Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/ • HEB (if your campus subscribes),
http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ • Connexions, http://cnx.org/ • Online Books Page (Penn),
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ • BookBoon,
http://bookboon.com/us/student/info/about
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Even more resources
NITLE blog, Technehttp://blogs.nitle.org
Horizon Reporthttp://www.nmc.org/horizon
Bryan’s research Twitterhttp://twitter.com/bryanalexander