Ebook meeting notes, April 13, 2010
We need to gather info that will help purchasing decisions about our current ebook packages (from a user experience point of view).
Ebook meeting notes, April 13, 2010
List of current ebook packages.
December 2010 project
Remlee and Nicole to meet in December to plan next steps for this.is working on a short-term project to evaluate 2-3 most major e-book packages. Project scope:
Investigate characteristics of the 2-3 most major packages (NetLibrary, ebrary, & Springer, maybe?) and make an easily scannable list of characteristics (maybe a Google spreadsheet?). For inspiration, start with brainstormed list of features from April meeting. The list will be available to CSM & selectors to inform purchasing choices, and we could make a stripped-down version for users, so they know what’s possible to do with our e-book packages. If we feel like the project results are useful, after the furlough, we can expand the scope of the project to include more packages.
- Maybe start by defining "e-book" to consider different types of content and how people will use the e-books (novel vs. reference vs. data)
- Make Google spreadsheet with important package features; definitely include info on formats (epub, html, pdf, etc.) & DRM
- Some packages we could choose: ebrary, NetLibrary, Springer, Books 24x7, Knovel (Nicole thought that some Springer books had epub versions with no DRM)