Ebooks
Not long ago, many people believed that few individuals would want to read digital editions of books. Now the landscape has changed and a multiplicity of ebook readers, proprietary formats, and licensing schemes exist. CNI provides a forum for discussion of developments in this area, including some of the restrictive policies that some publishers and vendors have developed regarding libraries. Other topics of discussion include educational institutions’ roles in providing content for e-readers, cross-institution licensing issues, and loan of devices.
Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff
“The Rise of Reading Analytics and the Emerging Calculus of Reader Privacy in the Digital World” (April '17)Author: Clifford A. Lynch View more information
“E-Book Strategies” (December '14)
Author: Coalition for Networked Information View more information
“The Fight to Save Endangered Ebooks” (May '14)
Interview with Clifford A. Lynch View more information
“Ebooks in 2013: Promises Broken, Promises Kept, and Faustian Bargains” (May '13)
Author: Clifford A. Lynch View more information
MOOCs, Mobility, and Changing Scholarly Practice (December '12)
Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch View more information View video
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Can You Imagine a Better Academic E-book Experience? Piloting SimplyE in Academic Libraries (March '20)
Rob Cartolano, Columbia University
Michele Kimpton, Digital Public Library of America
James English, Lyrasis
Mark G. Bilby, California State University, Fullerton
Initial Steps towards Building a Global Registry of Digitized Works (March '20)
Mike Furlough, HathiTrust
Preservation of New Forms of Scholarship (March '20)
Jonathan Greenberg, New York University
Jeremy Morse, University of Michigan
Karen Hanson, Portico, ITHAKA
Thib Guicherd-Callin, Stanford University
David Millman, New York University
No One is Using That Anymore: Assessing the Impact of Digital Availability on Print Usage (January '20)
Thomas Teper, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Recent Videos
Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data (April '19)Kevin S. Hawkins, University of North Texas View more information
The Privileged Link: Open Access, Version of Record, or Let the User Decide? (March '18)
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Aaron Tay, Singapore Management University
Maria Aghazarian, Swarthmore College
Johan Tilstra, LeanLibrary View more information
DPLA Exchange And SimplyE, an Open Platform for E-Content Services, Helping Libraries Take Back Control of E-Content Delivery to Your Patrons (December '17)
Michele Kimpton, Digital Public Library of America
James English, Project Director SimplyE
David Millman, New York University
Robert Cartolano, Columbia University View more information
Building the Better Ebook and Beyond (November '16)
Alex Humphreys, JSTOR
Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan
Lisa Macklin, Emory University
Barbara Rockenbach, Columbia University View more information View video
Starting a Textbook Revolution: Project Partners On and Beyond Your Campus (March '16)
Steven J. Bell, Temple University
Alison Armstrong, The Ohio State University
Kevin Stranack, Simon Fraser University View more information
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Recent Podcasts
Feb. 10, 2012: Horizon Megatrends; E-Book Self-Publishing; OSTP Comments (February '12) CNI Conversations Podcast, Feb. 10, 2012Listen to the Podcast
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New Economic Models for E-Textbooks: Cliff Lynch Speaks with IUPUI’s David Lewis (February '12) CNI Conversations Podcast, Feb. 7, 2012
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