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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

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)
Author: Clifford A. Lynch

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“E-Book Strategies” (December '14)
Author: Coalition for Networked Information

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“The Fight to Save Endangered Ebooks” (May '14)
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“Ebooks in 2013: Promises Broken, Promises Kept, and Faustian Bargains” (May '13)
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings

NISO Metadata Recommendations for the E-Book Supply Chain and Audio & Video Information Space (December '20)

Nettie Lagace, National Information Standards Organization (NISO)


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


Crowd-Sourced Unlatching of Curricular Books: A Joint Pilot by the California State University, Knowledge Unlatched, and the Internet Archive (March '20)

Mark G. Bilby, California State University, Fullerton


Initial Steps towards Building a Global Registry of Digitized Works (March '20)

Mike Furlough, HathiTrust
Stuart Lewis, National Library of Scotland


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



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Recent Videos

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 View more information

 

Crowd-Sourced Unlatching of Curricular Books: A Joint Pilot by the California State University, Knowledge Unlatched, and the Internet Archive (March '20)
Mark G. Bilby, California State University, Fullerton View more information

 

Initial Steps towards Building a Global Registry of Digitized Works (March '20)
Mike Furlough, HathiTrust
Stuart Lewis, National Library of Scotland View more information

 

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 View more information

 

Rapidly Expanding Access: HathiTrust’s COVID-19 Response (March '20)
Mike Furlough, HathiTrust
Sandra McIntyre, HathiTrust 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, 2012
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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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