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Peter Brantley ALA NISO/BISG
Internet Archive New Orleans LA
06.2011
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eBooks are a
conundrum
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promise tremendous reach
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yet pose significant
technical challenges
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arguably a threat to
commerce in books
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if libraries can do well
with eBook platforms
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why buy when one can borrow?
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it’s a fair question
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but …
multiple
quiXotic
issues
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publishers see books
as a commodity
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libraries see books
as a service
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access to information
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two opposing views of ebooks
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to place a different argument
about culture (national)
in a new context
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“eBooks are files,
wrapped in a license,
surrounded by technology,
delivered by a contract”
Michael Tamblyn
Kobo Books
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“eBooks are books,
wrapped in cultural life,
surrounded by readers,
delivered by history”
Michael Tamblyn
Kobo Books
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yet, weirdly,
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publishers
have an advantage
over libraries
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retail / distribution platforms
(however the books are sold)
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providing contextual services
(a different kind of metadata)
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social reading:
sharing thoughts
on a platform
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libraries value privacy
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social has been monetized
(because social is valuable)
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“[digital] transforms the book
from isolated vessel for text
into a shared interface”
Craig Mod
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“Digital marginalia is a
collective conversation”
Craig Mod
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so in that light
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libraries can buy books
and then lend them
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without seriously impacting
business models
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and ensuring
a basic level of service
(access to books)
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that’s what we want to do
at the Internet Archive
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buy books and
then lend them
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we’re old fashioned that way
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greatest commercial
value of ebooks is
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not really
the book
itself
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but the conversation
around and through
the book
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people
will exchange
money for
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the social life
of books
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for experts’ glosses and
the thoughts of friends
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a digital book
is a centroid on
the social graph
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“At MIT, his office … was crammed with books,
most overdue from the college library. Dr. Lettvin
claimed he did not return them because the
library would send him the students who wanted
those books, and he would interview them as
potential assistants.”
Jerome Lettvin; MIT professor with passion for ideas, a good debate
by J.M. Lawrence, Boston Globe, May 15, 2011.
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selling a book is
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selling a ticket to
that conversation
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and let’s be real
(for a second)
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libraries are already less than
5 percent of the book market
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and rather sadly we
keep getting poorer
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we’re not going to buy,
and not going to lend
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enough books to impact sales
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but we can add connections
among those conversations
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publishers might
call it “marketing” aka
targeted impressions
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maybe we should get
a commission on sales
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Alexis Madrigal
said it more holistically
in The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2011/06/what-big-media-can-learn-from-the-new-york-public-library/240565/
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“The library has become a social network
with physical and digital nodes.”
(emphasis added)
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but there’s one more problem
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a problem in the future
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for everyone (pubs and libs)
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that we’ll have to
solve together
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because books are
moving to the web
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and if a book is not
a container of things
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but a collection of links
to places on the web
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interactive experiences
across the network
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there’s nothing to download
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and I don’t know what it means
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to buy or borrow
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access to the web
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particularly
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if books can change
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where I read them
when I read them
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who reads them
who has read them
who I read them with
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these will be
the new books
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thanks!
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“Centroid”, Flickr!, CGehlen
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peter brantley
internet archive
peter @ archive org
@naypinya