Ebook Backlists & the library market AAUP 2013
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Ebook Backlists & the library market AAUP 2013
- 1. Backlist Ebooks & the Library Market One librarian’s perspective Jason Price, PhD Interim Library Director / Consultant Claremont Colleges Library / SCELC AAUP Boston June 21 2013
- 2. What do librarians think about backlist ebooks? “I don’t have a budget for those, heck I don’t have a budget for new ones!” “I’m happy to buy them on request or demand, but don’t want to purchase until we have a demonstrated need” “I don’t like packages, can I pick & choose?” “If they’re in collections, they’d better be cheap!”
- 3. Backfile income from libraries… Opportunity 1. Ebook aggregator backfile subscriptions 2. Publisher-hosted backfile packages 3. “Out of print” DDA loans & purchases Challenge 1. Little income? Competes w/ DDA? 2. Requires deep discounts or a new model 1. Long term availability for DDA purchase
- 4. 1) Aggregator backfile subscriptions Excerpt from Price & Mcdonald 2012, http://goo.gl/KsVO1
- 6. Subscription cost less than a penny on the dollar per year! Subscribable Ebrary Ebooks = 77,482 purchase price $5,670,776 (single-user price) ≤ $3.75/FTE… so for 5000 fte = $18750/year % of list price per year = 0.33% (multi-user price) Years to buy = 300+ years! Ebsco subscription pricing is similar… Q.E.D. Libraries investing in aggregator ebooks should subscribe to both packages and avoid buying individual books that are (or will be!) available by subscription…
- 7. 2) Publisher-hosted backfile collections Benefits of DRM-free content outweighed by aversion to collections Solution 1: Dime on the dollar pricing (or less)! Solution 2: Evidence-based custom collections EBASS 25 Youtube Video Outstanding 10 minute intro to all things PDA http://bit.ly/ebassPDA
- 8. Disruptive Technology Disturbingly Disruptive Acquisition Ebook PDA and DDA -> Predictability-Destroying Acquisition 3) DDA Rentals and Purchases
- 9. Solution: Partner with book agents, aggregators & libraries to extend DDA availability of university press content 3) DDA Rentals and Purchases
- 10. Hathi Trust & Google books Putting the Ebook Aggregator Marketplace into stark perspective Excerpt from Price & Mcdonald 2012, http://goo.gl/KsVO1
- 12. Hathi By the decade 1990-99 n = 785,758 1960-69 n = 624,845 1970-79 n = 722,697 1980-89 n = 823,151
- 13. Ebook Marketplace is only 1/3 as large as Hathi for 2000-09 books
- 14. Google books casts an even longer shadow
- 16. Questions for later discussion? Q: Will libraries replace their print book holdings with ebook versions? A: Not for quite a while… (Journals 1st) Q: Why do we need e-backlists since libraries can scan print & post on courseware? A: only covers 10% of a book - SIPX Q: Won’t Hathi & Google provide this service / swoop in? A: Hathi – No. Google – maybe.
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Publication dates of subscribed collections mirror the full collectionsEbsco has many more books from the 80s & 90sWhen we take a closer look at the most recent decade…
- The data presented on this slide argue STRONGLY for subscribing to BOTH collections, given the differentiation presented in the previous slidesInstead of a 10 or 20 year period of subscription matching the purchase price, it would take 300(!) years of subscription costs to own the same contentFurthermore and perhaps equally important(!) books in the subscribed collections have unlimited simultaneous use, while purchased books from these two vendors are limited to a single simultaneous user (unless a premium is paid for each book)
- Would they buy more if there was less DRM?
- But of course they represent only a tiny portion of what is available in the overall marketplaceJSTOR offerings are just becoming available as we speak
- Each color slice shows the proportion of collection by decade or century*from hathitrust.org website [http://www.hathitrust.org/visualizations_dates]
- Caveat – this only reflects relative size -- its not book to book matching as in prior comparisons…that’s a next step
- Not a fan of 3d graphs, except in this case where the EBAM is effectively carpet on the floor that wouldn’t be visible if you looked at it end on.Although some currently question the value of our owned print collections, potential future subscription models from Hathi or Google (should copyright and royalty issues prove to be solvable) would definitely call into question the value of ownership of aggregator hosted ebooks that are subsumed within them