ebooks in uk public libraries
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Presentation about the current situation (November 2013) regarding ebooks and e-lending in UK public libraries.TRANSCRIPT
Ebooks in UK public librariesHelen Leech
Surrey Library Service, and Shelf Free (www.shelffree.org.uk)
@helenleech
Half of all adults now own a smartphone (Ofcom 2013) One in four households now has a tablet (Ofcom 2013) 23% of Americans read an e-book in 2012 (Pew) We think seven out of ten Surrey residents has a device on
which they can e-read PwC think the ebook market is going to overtake the print
market by 2017 Charlie Redmayne of HarperCollins thinks the book market’s
going to settle at 50% digital (Telegraph) Around a fifth of library authorities in the UK are still NOT
offering e-books Surrey spends 2.6% of its bookfund on e-books
Some statistics
Most bestsellers are published by the Big Six: Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House and Simon and Schuster
Only HarperCollins, Hachette and Random House “sell” to UK public libraries
HarperCollins has a controversial 26 loan limit
Random House only sells backstock
Our problem is…
Ebooks to us means…
Overdrive, Askews and Public Library Online (with WF Howes, Bolinda and Peters just entering the market)
Popular fiction and non-fiction – not e-audio One user, one loan Epub and pdf Digital Rights Management software is normally
Adobe Digital Editions… … which means no downloading on library
computers No integration with the catalogue. Third parties only
What’s Surrey doing that’s special?
E-book and e-reader awareness for staff “Which e-reader?” petting zoo and “help!”
sessions for the public Big Push staff promotion E-newsletter to 160k members Lending kobos to ex-mobile users
http://prezi.com/kc62gmbp1wc4/how-to-download-a-library-e-book-onto-your-e-reader/
Friction…
Overdrive arrives in the UK around 2009 Surrey libraries’ ebook collection launches in 2010
with a hugely successful campaign targetting commuters
“Anybody, anywhere” Overdrive’s controversial relationship with
Amazon Penguin, Random House withdraw from Overdrive Beginning of the Dark Age of e-lending
A little history of car-crash e-lending
Rise of the Society of Chief Librarians’ digital / ebook group
Discussions with the Publishers’ Association The Reading Agency’s digital marketing
initiative Shelf Free (www.shelffree.org.uk)
Help!
All Party Parliamentary Group October 2012 Random House release backstock November
2013 Sieghart Review April 2013 Sieghart pilots October 2013
Signs of a thaw
“A key recommendation was that a series of pilots be constructed to test remote elending, based on one user, one copy and that copy would deteriorate after an agreed number of loans. The pilots are intended to provide publishers, authors, agents and libraries with an evidence base to assess what happens to lending and purchasing behaviour in those areas.”
(Society of Chief Librarians and the Publishers Association InvitationTo Tender, September 2013)
What are the Sieghart pilots trying to find out?
National workshop in November EBLIDA campaign, supported by CILIP The rise of the tablet The rise of the app Library Management System developments
The future’s brightening
The rise of self-publishing Patron Driven Acquisition The ethics of using our customer data How much control we want over the
relationship with publishers Public Lending Right
We need to start talking about …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
