“LIBRARIES – E-BOOKS VS PRINTED BOOKS?”
Hajah Kamsini Binti Hj Mohd Hussin Senior Librarian, UBD Library
E-BOOKS VS PRINTED BOOKS
Advantages of Print Books Over eBooks Printed books revolutionazed the world nearly 600 years ago, and since then they have influenced every part of the world, specifically in culture and science. No need for an e-reading device • No batteries needed. Advantages of printed books • Tangibility – choosing printed book is opting for prolonged existence and tangibility. It has ability to be seen forever on your shelf with other books. • It’s for everyone – even the non-computer literate readers will find no worries with printed books when they want to read. Disadvantages of printed books • Inconvenience – they can be heavy and hard to carry around. • You need lighting – you can’t read a printed book at night without external lighting. • Lack of space – printed books can take up a lot of space in your home.
ADVANTAGES OF EBOOKS
1. Ebooks are delivered almost instantaneously. You can purchase, download and start reading them within minutes, without leaving your chair. You don't have to go to a bookstore to buy them, neither wait for them for days, weeks and sometimes more to arrive in the mail. 2. No trees are required to manufacture paper for the pages of ebooks. 3. When you need certain information, you can get it immediately, by downloading an ebook. 4. Many ebooks are sold nowadays with bonuses, which you usually do not get with a printed book. This adds value to your purchase. 5. Ebooks take up less space. You practically don't need any space to store them. You don't need a library or a room for them. You can store hundreds and thousands of ebooks on your computer or reading device. 6. Ebooks are portable. You can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with you, on CD, in a laptop, notebook or any ebook reader, without worrying about their weight. 7. With today's technology you can read ebooks everywhere, on the bus, train, airplane, and while standing in line. 8. You can carry with you a great number of ebooks wherever you go, which you cannot do with ordinary books. 9. Ebooks can show links, for easy access to more information and related websites. 10. Ebooks are searchable. You can easily search for any information in an ebook, instead of turning page after page. 11. Ebooks can be interactive and contain audio, video and animations, which can enhance the message that the author is trying to convey. 12. Since ebooks are delivered through the Internet, there are no packing and shipping expenses. 13. Ebooks can be printable, so that if you wish to read an ebook in the traditional way, you can very inexpensively print it with your home printer or at any printing shop. 14. Fonts in ebooks can be resized, making it easier to read for people with disabilities. With an additional software it is possible to turn some of the ebooks into audio books. 15. Ebooks are very easy to sell and distribute. 16. It is very simple and easy to purchase and download an ebook. People living in big modernized cities, in a remote village in a far away country or on a small island, can equally access an ebook. It takes them the same amount of time to purchase and download an ebook, provided they have an Internet connection. 17. It is possible to purchase an ebook 24 hours a day, every day of the year, from the comfort of your own house or office. You can purchase and download an ebook, even if you are on a vacation. All you need is a laptop, tablet. smartphone, or a reading device, and wireless Internet connection.
18. People are already spending a lot of time in front of their computers, so why not read and ebook, instead of doing something else?
E-BOOKS COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT UBD LIBRARY 160,000 140,000 120,000 100,000 80,000 60,000 40,000 20,000 0
AlCambr Credo Manha idge l Volume 6,564 2,470 255
Elsevi Ebrary IG Pub ISEAS Oxford Routle er Uni dge 930
100,00 2,398
429
4,235
3,152
Sage
Spring World EBSCO Total er Scienti Host fic 2,604 25,710 3,918 45 152,71
EBOOKS INDIVIDUAL TITLES (EBSCOHOST)
Apart from purchasing Database packages we also purchase individual titles by selection.
EBSCOhost Ebooks EBSCOhost Collection Manager (ECM) is a powerful tool to help you acquire eBooks and Audiobooks that can be delivered on the EBSCOhost platform. Use ECM to search or browse for titles, or select from the great Subject Sets or Featured Collections that our collection development staff have created for you. ECM will allow you to publish PDA accounts and select different ownership models. Please note that your login has been setup as an ‘Approver’ account, which means you are able to order eBooks directly as well as search our complete eBooks catalogue of 500,000 plus titles.
So far library had purchased 87 titles. It can be accessible through EBSCHost Databases and eClik. Number of access for users are 1 user, 3 users and unlimited access users depend also types of access they offered.
EBOOKS USAGE JANUARY 2016 – SEPTEMBER 2016
STATISTICS OF BOOKS LOAN FOR PRINTED ITEMS
ACCOUNTS, LISTS & ORDERING: AN OVERVIEW OF ECM Approver Only The simplest way to get started ordering books in ECM is to open an Approver account for everyone at your institution that has authority to purchase EBSCO eBooks. With Approver accounts, users can take advantage of all of ECM’s features.
SELECTOR & APPROVER •
Selector accounts can do everything that an Approver can do except they cannot place orders for eBooks. Rather, Selectors can build lists and submit those lists to Approvers who can then purchase the list on the Selectors behalf. Selector accounts are great for colleagues or faculty that provide suggestions for eBook purchases, but do not have the authority to make a purchase
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When a Selector is done building their list of books, they can submit the list of books to any Approver at your institution.
Approver accounts can then review the lists submitted to them by a Selector and remove any eBooks that should not be purchased.
The approver can then add the list of books to their shopping cart and purchase lists.
WAYS TO BUILD A COLLECTION eBook Collections An easy way to begin building your eBook collection is to browse our Subject Sets and Featured Collections. These collections have been crafted by our team of collection development specialists and only include content relevant to a particular subject matter. You can purchase Subject Sets and Featured Collections directly in ECM. Individual eBooks If you are not interested in our collections, ECM makes it easy to search for and buy any eBook in EBSCOs extensive catalog. Search our catalog of eBooks and add eBooks to your shopping cart to buy them. Or, if you aren’t ready to buy, create a list and add eBooks to the list. When you are ready to buy, add the list to your shopping cart and place the order. PDA PDA stands for Patron Driven Acquisition and it is becoming a popular way to build an eBook collection. Using a PDA collection, your institution can build a collection of eBooks and make it available to users, but your institution will only have to pay for the eBooks that are actually used by your patrons on EBSCOhost. To learn more about how PDA works, visit the “What is PDA?” section.
MANAGING E-BOOKS ďƒ’
Managing e-book workflows is an ongoing challenge, an exercise in adaptation and flexibility to keep a library’s organizational structure and workflows in sync with changing publishing and acquisitions models as well as discovery options. This presentation will look at some of the changes the University of Nevada, Reno, has made within technical services to manage new tools and services such as patron-driven acquisition, increasingly large e-book subscription packages, discovery service platforms, and cloud-based services. This will be accompanied by a discussion of the challenges created by these new tools and services, challenges that illustrate the pressing need for greater standardization in e-book metadata and improved communication among vendors and service providers. Topics discussed will include: How does a library track owned versus leased titles? What complications are caused by poor-quality metadata? How can a library minimize duplication of holdings, both from an acquisitions and a discovery perspective? If a library has a discovery service, how much e-book access can be (reliably) handled through it and what should still be in the library catalog?
CONSORTIA UBD Library had subscribed Institute of Physics and E-brary through consortia to another 7 universities in Malaysia. Reasons for consortia:
To reduce cost of member library subscriptions by obtaining a group purchase price for information products.
Better sharing of existing resources and jointly acquiring new resources at great savings.
To bring pressure to bear on information providers, especially publishers, to reduce the rate of rise in the cost of purchasing information.
LICENSE AGREEMENT After purchasing of databases supplier will send two copies of License Agreement by airmail to be signed. One copy will be send back by the supplier after they had signed for our copy that both parties had agreed with the terms and conditions that had been set by the supplier.
LICENSE RESTRICTIONS TO AVOID
Limit access to specific machines.
Limit access to specific users.
Prohibit remote access.
TYPES OF LICENSES Unlimited (Ebrary) (Ebrary- Subscription only but we don’t own)
By selection: One user, three users and unlimited. (Mostly for purchased items) – Perpectual (we own the items)
ACCESS
I.P. Authentication : Easy but site limitation
I. P. Authentication + User ID/Password : Unlimited but need to remember password
User ID/Password : Anywhere prone to abuse
The library use I. P. Authentication. Users can access through our Portal. When internet down at UBD we still give User ID/Password to enable them to access the databases at home.
ACCESS POINTS
Electronic links from VISION.
Ebooks from Portal
CONCLUSION There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages of printed and e-books, but I will always prefer printed books because of the feeling they gave you when you’re reading and holding them in your hands.
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EBOOK VS PRINTED BOOK Dr Hjh Rose Abdullah 21 September 2016 Library - Universiti Teknologi Brunei
PREFERENCE FOR EBOOK STORAGE– People can store hundreds, even thousands, of books within one device. EASE OF PURCHASE– Buying an eBook is just a click away. PORTABILITY – The worst thing is finishing a book on vacation and not having the next book to start.
PRICE – The price of an eBook is usually less than a print book. PURCHASING OPTIONS – A person can find an eBook at almost 80 different online outlets. “RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW” The books are available for purchase and reading at any time and any place (battery permitting).
Speed – you don’t have to wait until you can get to library or bookstore, you can read an e-book immediately. You can adjust fonts – you can make font bigger or change its darkness.
DISADVANTAGES OF EBOOK Battery life – if your e-reader runs out of battery, you can’t use it until it charges again. You can’t loan or borrow e-book – if you read an amazing e-book and you want to share it with friends, you will have to give them your e-reader.
PREFERENCE FOR PRINTED BOOKS TANGIBILITY– They get a tangible item for their money and prolonged existence. ACCOMPLISHMENT – They feel more accomplished when the mass of the book moves from the right side to the left and they know they are almost done. LIBRARY – Some people like to have a library of books to select from. AROMA – Some people like the smell. DIY – One person has said she couldn’t use a stack of eBooks to prop up her couch if the leg fell off.
No need for an e-reading device No batteries needed Understandability – you can put marks and take notes so that you can easily understand what writer wants to say It’s for everyone – even the non-computer literate readers will find no worries with printed books when they want to read.
DISADVANTAGES FOR PRINTED BOOKS Inconvenience – heavy and hard to carry around Need lighting Lack of space – take up a lot of space in your home.
FOR READER PRINTED BOOK
EBOOK
Easy flipping between pages
Press Ctrl + F to find the words
Less Distracting
Easy to Carry
Helps retain information
Can be read anywhere
Can be sold once not needed
Inexpensive
Doesn’t strain the eyes
Use the feature copy and paste
Provides an escape from computer screen
No Book Cover; can read anything in public
Easy to mentally pin stuff to physical things
One click to look up words online
Nostalgia
Great for pleasure reading
FOR PUBLISHING COMPANY Advantages of an ebook: Easily and very widely distributed (enormous potential reach) Can be purchased and read near-instantly without a trip to a bricks-andmortar store or waiting for physical delivery Text can be dynamically updated with corrections and additions Significantly lower production costs (no paper, binding, or shipping--and zero marginal costs) Can offer free samples to elicit reader interest
Faster to publish (no printing or shipping times)--especially beneficial for nonfiction about current events Allows publisher/author to experiment with pricing Lower price point and habitual one-click shopping behavior promotes more impulse buys
FOR PUBLISHING COMPANY ď‚´ Issues of an ebook: 1. Easily pirated and be copy. 2. Cannot be signed/autographed, thus losing this small but sentimental secondary market of autographed books and book signings
3. Text can be digitally re-sized, thus losing large print edition market 4. Cheaper price (but better royalty split) 5. Harder to loan to friends. ď‚´ 6. Potentially cannibalizes future paperback sales when released alongside hardcover publication (hard to prove this)
For Publishing Company $5.25 billion: Amazon’s current annual revenue from book sales, according to one of Packer’s sources. That means books account for 7% of the company’s $75 billion in total yearly revenue. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2014/02/10/amazon-vs-bookpublishers-by-the-numbers/#9a123b965a3a 19.5%: The proportion of all books sold in the U.S. that are Kindle titles. E-books now make up around 30% of all book sales, and Amazon has a 65% share within that category, >50%: The decrease in the number of independent bookstores over the past 20 years. There used to be about 4,000 in the U.S.; now there are fewer than 2,000. Amazon’s arrival on the scene is only part of the story here, of course; the decline of the indies started with the debut of big-box stores like B&N and Borders.
<10%: The proportion of books now sold through independent bookstores. 14: The number of workers Amazon employs for every $10 million in revenue it generates. For brick-and-mortar retailers, the average is 47 employees per $10 million of revenue. $47: The amount Amazon Publishing paid “Laverne & Shirley” star Penny Marshall for every print copy it sold of her memoir, “My Mother Was Nuts.” Marshall received an $800,000 advance, but the title only sold 17,000 copies. With competing retailers refusing to sell Amazon Publishing titles, other authors choosing to publish through its imprint, including Tim Ferriss and James Franco, have encountered similar problems. 1 million: The total number of copies — print, e-book and audio — sold by author Helen Bryan, whose two historical novels, “War Brides” and “The Sisterhood,” were put out by Amazon Publishing. Amazon announced this morning that Bryan is its second author, following Oliver Pötzsch, to reach the million-copy mark.
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