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)
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Addressing the 7% Problem: The FRAME Project and the ARL-CARL Marrakesh Treaty Implementation Project (December '21)
Victoria Owen, University of Toronto
Bill Kasdorf, Kasdorf & Associations, LLC
Stephen Downie, University of Illinois
Pascal Calarco, University of Windsor
John Unswoth, University of Virginia
Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries
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Along Came Google (December '21)
Roger Schonfeld, Ithaka S+R
Deanna Marcum, Ithaka S+R
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Collaboratively Building the Future for Controlled Digital Lending (December '21)
Nathan Mealey, Wesleyan University
Michael Rodriguez, University of Connecticut
Charlie Barlow, Boston Library Consortium
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Progress Towards Opening the Monograph: The MIT Press Direct to Open (December '21)
Emily Farrell, The MIT Press
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Christina Drummond, Educopia Institute/OA eBook Usage Data Trust
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Recent Videos
*The Open Access eBook Usage Data Trust: A Global OA Monograph Data Collaborative to Facilitate Economies of Scale for Scholarly Output Usage, Engagement, and Impact Analysis (March '21)Christina Drummond, Educopia Institute/OA eBook Usage Data Trust
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*Taking Control Using Academic SimplyE: Our Journey to an Open Reading Landscape (March '21)
Robert Cartolano, Columbia University
James English, LYRASIS
Nancy Lin, New York University
Christine Peterson, Amigos Library Services
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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
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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
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Initial Steps towards Building a Global Registry of Digitized Works (March '20)
Mike Furlough, HathiTrust
Stuart Lewis, National Library of Scotland
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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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