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
Post-Pandemic Strategic Planning: Challenges and Approaches (April '21)View Report View more information
New Strategies for Acquiring Learning Materials (June '20)
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“The Rise of Reading Analytics and the Emerging Calculus of Reader Privacy in the Digital World” (April '17)
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“E-Book Strategies” (December '14)
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“The Fight to Save Endangered Ebooks” (May '14)
Interview with Clifford A. Lynch View more information
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Direct to Open: Making Frontlist Monographs Open at the MIT Press (Lightning Round) (March '23)
Nick Lindsay, MIT Press
Kyle Rimkus, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Palace Project for Academics Program Update: Partnerships Working to Demystify Complexity (March '23)
James English, LYRASIS
Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis
Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan
Emma Molls, University of Minnesota
James Shulman, American Council of Learned Societies
Rebecca Seger, ITHAKA
Social Learning Across Content Case Study: Hypothesis & JSTOR (March '23)
Alex Humphreys, ITHAKA/JSTOR
Jeremy Dean, Hypothesis
Leysia Palen, University of Colorado Boulder
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Recent Videos
Teaching Data Science and Building Data Literacy—Nationally and Globally (August '23)Florence Hudson, Columbia University and Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub
Emily Rothenberg, Columbia University View more information
Direct to Open: Making Frontlist Monographs Open at the MIT Press (Lightning Round) (March '23)
Nick Lindsay, MIT Press View more information
Libraries, Disability Service Organizations, and Repositories: An Evolving Workflow from the Educational Materials Made Accessible Project (March '23)
Kyle Rimkus, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign View more information
Palace Project for Academics Program Update: Partnerships Working to Demystify Complexity (March '23)
James English, LYRASIS
Peter Brantley, University of California, Davis View more information
The Path to Open Books Pilot: A Sustainable Model for Making University Press Frontlist Titles Open Access at Scale? (March '23)
Charles Watkinson, University of Michigan
Emma Molls, University of Minnesota
James Shulman, American Council of Learned Societies
Rebecca Seger, ITHAKA 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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