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T rends of  Tren ds o f  EBOOKs EBOOKs : : Ebooks Ebooks as a researc h t ool as a research tool iGroup PeterChung Sep 2005

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Page 1: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 131

Trends of Trends of EBOOKsEBOOKsEbooksEbooks as a research toolas a research tool

iGroup

PeterChungSep 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 231

Things to talk abouthellip

Why Ebooks

How much benefits can Ebooks bring for usin terms of studies amp research

Are my users accepting it

Is my ROI looking good

What should I decide Purchase or Subscribed

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 331

Current Dilemma (1)

Perhaps the biggest factors affecting the future successor failure of e-books will be the quantity quality and

cost of content material and the feel of reading

compared to that of traditional books Beverly L Harrison Information Appliances IEEE Comp Soc 2001

Quantity amp Quality

Cost of Content

Feel of Reading

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 431

Current Dilemma (2)

The lack of promotion from within the universityparticularly from the academics and to a certain extent

from the librarians is indeed a major reason for this

knowledge gap

Linda Benett The Electronic Library Emerald 2005

Users not aware that the information is availablehellip

How to convey the idea of Electronic Content to usershellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 531

Electronic or Print Books

MarilynChristiansonElsevier2005

More titles

are used as

PRINT but

more access

to each titles

are in

Electronic

format

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 631

Nowhellip There are even more

questions to ask

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks

What kind of content amp how much

Are my users familiar in using Ebooks Do they know there are Ebooks available in the

campus

Electronic content or still Print Books

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 731

Why Ebooks Evolves

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 831

Ebooks advanceshellipDue to the Drawbacks of Print Books

Pu blishers

Cos tl y to Produce S tore

Ship and Sell

Li b r a r i a n s C o s t l y t o S t o r e C i r c u l a t e a n d M a i n t a i n

U s e r s

D i f f i c u l t t o Sea r c

h Re t r ie ve

a n d Ma na ge

Connaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 931

Ebooks Opportunit ies

On-demandavailability

Easy access to content

(Full text Searchable)

Searching abilityPortability of

content

Linking abilityConnaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1231

HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 2: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 231

Things to talk abouthellip

Why Ebooks

How much benefits can Ebooks bring for usin terms of studies amp research

Are my users accepting it

Is my ROI looking good

What should I decide Purchase or Subscribed

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 331

Current Dilemma (1)

Perhaps the biggest factors affecting the future successor failure of e-books will be the quantity quality and

cost of content material and the feel of reading

compared to that of traditional books Beverly L Harrison Information Appliances IEEE Comp Soc 2001

Quantity amp Quality

Cost of Content

Feel of Reading

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 431

Current Dilemma (2)

The lack of promotion from within the universityparticularly from the academics and to a certain extent

from the librarians is indeed a major reason for this

knowledge gap

Linda Benett The Electronic Library Emerald 2005

Users not aware that the information is availablehellip

How to convey the idea of Electronic Content to usershellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 531

Electronic or Print Books

MarilynChristiansonElsevier2005

More titles

are used as

PRINT but

more access

to each titles

are in

Electronic

format

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 631

Nowhellip There are even more

questions to ask

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks

What kind of content amp how much

Are my users familiar in using Ebooks Do they know there are Ebooks available in the

campus

Electronic content or still Print Books

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 731

Why Ebooks Evolves

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 831

Ebooks advanceshellipDue to the Drawbacks of Print Books

Pu blishers

Cos tl y to Produce S tore

Ship and Sell

Li b r a r i a n s C o s t l y t o S t o r e C i r c u l a t e a n d M a i n t a i n

U s e r s

D i f f i c u l t t o Sea r c

h Re t r ie ve

a n d Ma na ge

Connaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 931

Ebooks Opportunit ies

On-demandavailability

Easy access to content

(Full text Searchable)

Searching abilityPortability of

content

Linking abilityConnaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1231

HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 3: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 331

Current Dilemma (1)

Perhaps the biggest factors affecting the future successor failure of e-books will be the quantity quality and

cost of content material and the feel of reading

compared to that of traditional books Beverly L Harrison Information Appliances IEEE Comp Soc 2001

Quantity amp Quality

Cost of Content

Feel of Reading

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 431

Current Dilemma (2)

The lack of promotion from within the universityparticularly from the academics and to a certain extent

from the librarians is indeed a major reason for this

knowledge gap

Linda Benett The Electronic Library Emerald 2005

Users not aware that the information is availablehellip

How to convey the idea of Electronic Content to usershellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 531

Electronic or Print Books

MarilynChristiansonElsevier2005

More titles

are used as

PRINT but

more access

to each titles

are in

Electronic

format

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 631

Nowhellip There are even more

questions to ask

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks

What kind of content amp how much

Are my users familiar in using Ebooks Do they know there are Ebooks available in the

campus

Electronic content or still Print Books

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 731

Why Ebooks Evolves

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 831

Ebooks advanceshellipDue to the Drawbacks of Print Books

Pu blishers

Cos tl y to Produce S tore

Ship and Sell

Li b r a r i a n s C o s t l y t o S t o r e C i r c u l a t e a n d M a i n t a i n

U s e r s

D i f f i c u l t t o Sea r c

h Re t r ie ve

a n d Ma na ge

Connaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 931

Ebooks Opportunit ies

On-demandavailability

Easy access to content

(Full text Searchable)

Searching abilityPortability of

content

Linking abilityConnaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

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HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

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USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

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Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

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SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

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ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 4: eBook 2005

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Current Dilemma (2)

The lack of promotion from within the universityparticularly from the academics and to a certain extent

from the librarians is indeed a major reason for this

knowledge gap

Linda Benett The Electronic Library Emerald 2005

Users not aware that the information is availablehellip

How to convey the idea of Electronic Content to usershellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 531

Electronic or Print Books

MarilynChristiansonElsevier2005

More titles

are used as

PRINT but

more access

to each titles

are in

Electronic

format

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 631

Nowhellip There are even more

questions to ask

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks

What kind of content amp how much

Are my users familiar in using Ebooks Do they know there are Ebooks available in the

campus

Electronic content or still Print Books

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 731

Why Ebooks Evolves

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 831

Ebooks advanceshellipDue to the Drawbacks of Print Books

Pu blishers

Cos tl y to Produce S tore

Ship and Sell

Li b r a r i a n s C o s t l y t o S t o r e C i r c u l a t e a n d M a i n t a i n

U s e r s

D i f f i c u l t t o Sea r c

h Re t r ie ve

a n d Ma na ge

Connaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 931

Ebooks Opportunit ies

On-demandavailability

Easy access to content

(Full text Searchable)

Searching abilityPortability of

content

Linking abilityConnaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1231

HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 5: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 531

Electronic or Print Books

MarilynChristiansonElsevier2005

More titles

are used as

PRINT but

more access

to each titles

are in

Electronic

format

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 631

Nowhellip There are even more

questions to ask

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks

What kind of content amp how much

Are my users familiar in using Ebooks Do they know there are Ebooks available in the

campus

Electronic content or still Print Books

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 731

Why Ebooks Evolves

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 831

Ebooks advanceshellipDue to the Drawbacks of Print Books

Pu blishers

Cos tl y to Produce S tore

Ship and Sell

Li b r a r i a n s C o s t l y t o S t o r e C i r c u l a t e a n d M a i n t a i n

U s e r s

D i f f i c u l t t o Sea r c

h Re t r ie ve

a n d Ma na ge

Connaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 931

Ebooks Opportunit ies

On-demandavailability

Easy access to content

(Full text Searchable)

Searching abilityPortability of

content

Linking abilityConnaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1231

HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

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Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

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Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

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Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

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Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

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EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

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Nowhellip There are even more

questions to ask

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks

What kind of content amp how much

Are my users familiar in using Ebooks Do they know there are Ebooks available in the

campus

Electronic content or still Print Books

832019 eBook 2005

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Why Ebooks Evolves

832019 eBook 2005

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Ebooks advanceshellipDue to the Drawbacks of Print Books

Pu blishers

Cos tl y to Produce S tore

Ship and Sell

Li b r a r i a n s C o s t l y t o S t o r e C i r c u l a t e a n d M a i n t a i n

U s e r s

D i f f i c u l t t o Sea r c

h Re t r ie ve

a n d Ma na ge

Connaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 931

Ebooks Opportunit ies

On-demandavailability

Easy access to content

(Full text Searchable)

Searching abilityPortability of

content

Linking abilityConnaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

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HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

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Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

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D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

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SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

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ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 7: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

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Why Ebooks Evolves

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 831

Ebooks advanceshellipDue to the Drawbacks of Print Books

Pu blishers

Cos tl y to Produce S tore

Ship and Sell

Li b r a r i a n s C o s t l y t o S t o r e C i r c u l a t e a n d M a i n t a i n

U s e r s

D i f f i c u l t t o Sea r c

h Re t r ie ve

a n d Ma na ge

Connaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 931

Ebooks Opportunit ies

On-demandavailability

Easy access to content

(Full text Searchable)

Searching abilityPortability of

content

Linking abilityConnaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1231

HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 8: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 831

Ebooks advanceshellipDue to the Drawbacks of Print Books

Pu blishers

Cos tl y to Produce S tore

Ship and Sell

Li b r a r i a n s C o s t l y t o S t o r e C i r c u l a t e a n d M a i n t a i n

U s e r s

D i f f i c u l t t o Sea r c

h Re t r ie ve

a n d Ma na ge

Connaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 931

Ebooks Opportunit ies

On-demandavailability

Easy access to content

(Full text Searchable)

Searching abilityPortability of

content

Linking abilityConnaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1231

HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 9: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 931

Ebooks Opportunit ies

On-demandavailability

Easy access to content

(Full text Searchable)

Searching abilityPortability of

content

Linking abilityConnaway LSDESIDOC Bulletin

of Info Tech 2003

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1231

HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 10: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1031

3 factorsthat effect the evolving of Ebooks

Cyper-Space as the environment Technology as the driving force

Interactive Fiction as the newinformative idea

Cory Doctorow Creative Commons 2004

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1131

eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1231

HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

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Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

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eBooks evolving base-onhellip

the advances of Technology

E-BOOKSE-BOOKS

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

E-BOOK

LIBRARIES

Biblio Records

amp Summaries ofEbooks

Biblio Records Summaries

Fulltext and Database of

eBooks

VIRTUAL

LIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

VIRTUALLIBRARY

OF

E-BOOKS

Interactive EbooksLinking TechnologyE-Learning

E-ink amp E-paper

832019 eBook 2005

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HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 12: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1231

HOW SHOULD WE LOOK

AT EBOOKs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 13: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1331

USES OF EBOOKs

Collectionsamp

Preservation

ResearchUse

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1431

Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

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Uses of EbooksUses of Ebooks

Collections amp Preservations

Long-Term using(3 or 5 years above)

Important Archivingneeds

Information that have tobe kept for longer period

of time History Art Humanities

Theories KnowledgeRepositoryhellipetc

Research Uses

Evolving information inScience Technology amp Medicine

Technical Referencedocuments (Spec amp Standards)

Teaching amp Coachingmaterials

A D a t a b as e

A D a t a b as e

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1531

D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 15: eBook 2005

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D O N O T U S E D O N O T U S E

ee--B O O K S a s B O O K S a s B o o k s B o o k s

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 16: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1631

Database vs e-Books

Database

e-Books ComprehensiveDatabase

Reduce Risk of MissingInfo

Typically Unlimited

Users

NEW Content -Updatesare FREE

Purchase Like Print butaccess via electronically

Typically One User per tit le

Must PAY for NEW

CONTENT

Limited Number of Titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1731

EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

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EBOOKs as Research-Tool must be hellip

Huge titlesHuge titles--countcount

To reduce risk of

missing importantinformation

UpUp--toto--DateDate Provide most effective

ways to research

informationIn order to fulfill Research

Criteria hellip

832019 eBook 2005

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SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 18: eBook 2005

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httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1831

SAVE MONEY

INCREASELIBRARY

COLLECTION

ENHANCED

RESEARCHCAPABILITIES

Ebooks as a

Database forResearch

Studies found thatStudies found thathelliphellip

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 19: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 1931

Sohellip Letrsquos solve all these questions

How do I get quantity of good quality Ebooks Choose a good database (Ebooks) that comes with

good research tools

What kind of content amp how much

A research database with huge titles count (Hugeamount of Ebooks)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2931

Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3031

Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

Page 20: eBook 2005

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2031

Solving Questionshellip Are my users familiar in using Ebooks

As a database features amp functions are base on researchneeds

Do they know therersquos Ebooks available in the

campus Emphasize the Importance of Research

More promotion amp More training

Electronic content or still Print Books E-content Reduce Risk of missing Information amp

PRINT for Reading amp Study

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2131

ComparisonsComparisons

Lets look at some exampleshellip

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2231

Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

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Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

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Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

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Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

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B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

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2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

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Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

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Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

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Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

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Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

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Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

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No of Slots Instances

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EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

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Company Books 247 eBook Corp (EBL) Ebrary

URL httpmarketingbooks24x7comhome2asp httpwwweblebookscom httpwwwebrarycom

Core Competency

Content is mostly IT engineering and businessbooks and sold to corporations and libraries

Concentrates on academic and research-basedlibraries offering scholarly content from STM

publishers

Pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform(DCP)trade which integrates patented software with

a growing collection of full-text digital booksreports maps and other authoritative content

Est Annual Rev $1935 million NA $38 million

Collection of Titles54 of titles have a publish date of 2001 or more

recent

1998 onwards 525 of titles have a publish date from 2001 and

325 of the titles have a publish date from 2002

Number of Titles 6450 titles 27000 titles 30000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscription Unique Subscription model based on usage EBL sellslibraries a block of loan instances Typically a single loan

instance represents 1 full day of check-out for 1 user

AnnualCalendar Year Subscription

Purchase model will start in June2005

Access TermsMultiple concurrent users based on number

of seatsMultiple concurrent users under limits of loan

instancesUnlimited access base on E-FTE

(Effective FTE reflecting country discount)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science no yes yes

Tech amp Computers yes yes yesBusiness amp Econ yes yes yes

Finance yes yes yes

Healthcare no yes yes

Medical no yes yes

Pharma no yes yes

Legal yes (business related) no yes

Humanities no no yesSocial Sciences no no yes

Art no no yes

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

Content Offering

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2331

Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

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Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

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Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

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Suggestion

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PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

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Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

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EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

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Company Knovel netLibrary OReilly Safari

URL httpwwwknovelcomknovel2defaultjsp httpwwwnetlibrarycom httpsafarioreillycom

Core CompetencyProvides a one-stop source for finding answers fromInteractive ebooks on Science and Engineering

netLibrary majority of sales come through ConsortiaBCR MLC PALINET NELINET Wiles OHIONETand NYLINK

An independent publisher of computer and technologybooks and manuals

Est Annual Rev $3 million $10-12 million $25 million est

Collection of Titles 2000 onwards 56 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent 75 of titles have a pub date of 2001 or more recent

Number of Titles 500+ titles 40000+ titles 2000 titles

Subscription Model

Annual Subscripiton for the full collection or selectedcollections Academic customers base on relevant

FTE Corporate customers base on per-seat model orconcurrent users

PURCHASE price per title averages $50-$60 2000titles $50 = $100000 average retail sale per

library Hosting fee of 55 of list price of the title theypurchase Consortia members SHARING scheme

Annual Subscriptions with slot of books selectedexchangable with other books quarterly

Access Terms Unlimited access per collection for AcademicConcurrent users for Corporate clients Concurrent users PER TITLE Concurrent users per collection(Collection can be 100~10000 slots)

Engineering yes yes yes

Science yes yes yes (computer sciences)

Tech amp Computers yes yes yes

Business amp Econ no yes noFinance no yes no

Healthcare no yes no

Medical no yes no

Pharma no yes no

Legal no yes no

Humanities no yes noSocial Sciences no yes no

Art no yes no

p p p

Company Overview

Content Offering

Subjects Coverage

2005 Competitive Landscape for EBOOKS publishers

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2431

Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

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Suggestion

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PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

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Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

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Company Ovid Technologies Inc Thieme (Germany) xRefer

URL httpwwwovidcomsiteindexjsp httpwwwthieme-connectcom wwwxrerfercom

Core CompetencyAcademic medical and scientific markets A German medium size primary publisher that

published Medical amp Biochemistry content both in

periodicals and text books

xReferplus Ready-Reference services feature full-text aggregated content from hundreds of reference

books covering every major subject

Est Annual Rev $150 million $150 million $2 million

Collection of Titles

1998 onwards These TEXTBOOKs have been published since

1965s Millions of copies had been sold in the market

Most reference books since 1995 onwards

Number of Titles 200+ Medical titles 48 titles (with 22 titles online) 167 titles

Subscription Model

Annual subscription fees Some pay-per-view Annual subscription on Country Tiers Allow to buy full

set of PRINT with special discount after 3 years of

subscription

Annual subscription based on institutions FTE

Access Terms User Licences+Concurrent usersper book selected Unlimited Access Multiple concurrent users

Engineering no no no

Science yes yes Yes

Tech amp Computers no no Yes

Business amp Econ no no Yes

Finance no no Yes

Healthcare yes yes Yes

Medical yes yes Yes

Pharma yes no Yes

Legal no no Yes

Humanities no no YesSocial Sciences no no Yes

Art no no Yes

p p p

Content Offering

Company Overview

Subjects Coverage

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2531

Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

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Suggestion

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PURCHASE model If you r looking for

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Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

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Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

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EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

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Licensing Models

Summaryhellip

Subscription Models Annual Year or Calendar Year Charge by Usage (Buying instances or slots)

Subscription w ith FTEs count Subscribe-First Perpetual-Later model Pay-per-View

Purchase Models Electrically Owned + Maintenance Fees Print-On-Demand

Content-Sharing model (consortia)

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2631

Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

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Suggestion

Base on your NEEDs

PURCHASE model If you r looking for

Ownership Long-Term Collections

Information Repository Content Preservation

Subscription model If you r looking for

Research tools Institutional PortalEducation Databases

832019 eBook 2005

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Consideringhellip

Access Terms

Unlimited Access Concurrent Users

No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 3131

EBOOKsEBOOKs PRODUCTSPRODUCTShelliphellip

Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

CRCnetBASECRCnetBASE

EbridgeEbridge EbooksEbooks PlatformPlatform

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Summary on hellip

Ebrary CRCnet and Knovel

Ebrary Purely a database for research

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

24000 titles (excluding Branded Collections)

CRCnetBASE

Handbooks for 25 different fields Subscription Model Unlimited Access

1200 titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2731

Summary cont

Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

Productivity Ebooks

Subscription Model Unlimited Access

760+ titles

832019 eBook 2005

httpslidepdfcomreaderfullebook-2005 2831

How do you consider

B u y t he B o o k s ( P u r c ha s e M o d e l )

S u b s c r i b e t h e

C o n t e n t

( S u b s c r i p t

i o n M o d e l )

832019 eBook 2005

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Access Terms

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No of Slots Instances

Archival (Stil l working onhellip ) Perpetual Rights PRINT copies CDROMs

832019 eBook 2005

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Ebrary

Knovel

CRCnetBASE

Ebridge Ebooks Platform

EbraryEbrary KnovelKnovel

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Knovel Handbooks for 17 different Engineering subjects

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