E-dilemma: Questioning E-textbooks in University Libraries
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E-‐dilemma: Ques.oning e-‐textbooks in university libraries Springer Turkish Summit İstanbul, 24 Mayıs 2013
İlkay Holt, Özyeğin University
Özyeğin University (ÖzÜ) at a glance
¨ Founda.on university ¨ Established in 2008 ¨ English-‐medium university ¨ 3000 FTE ¨ Undergraduate and graduate programs ¨ Library collec.on development policy;
¤ Library ≠ books ¤ Just in .me acquisi.on
E-‐Book 89%
Book 11%
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why a textbook?
¨ Textbook, the required book for the course ¨ Textbook, has to be seen at least once ¨ Textbook, has to be at least looked at ¨ Textbook, has to be at least browsed ¨ Textbook, needs to be read ¨ Textbook, nice to own
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why e-‐textbook?
¨ Any.me, anywhere ¨ Light compare to Principles of Marke.ng by Kotler, 768 pages..
¨ Easy to update ¨ Interac.ve learning ¨ Rich media ¨ No loan period limita.on ¨ Print on demand
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desirable enough?
Source: Jon T. Rickman, Roger Von Holzen, Paul G. Klute, and Teri Tobin. (2009) A Campus-Wide E-Textbook Initiative. EDUCAUSE Quarterly retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/campus-wide-e-textbook-initiative#TB_inline?height=500&width=630&inlineId=sidebar2&modal=false
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another study on e-‐book preference
Source: UC Libraries Academic e-Book Usage Survey Springer e-Book Pilot Project. May 2011. http://www.cdlib.org/services/uxdesign/docs/2011/academic_ebook_usage_survey.pdf
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check out the industry...
¨ “The average full-‐.me college students spends more than $1000 annually on textbooks, and textbook prices are increasing about 6% per year”
¨ “It is es.mated that 40% of students do not purchase a textbook for at least one course each term.”
¨ “Five companies (Thompson, McGraw-‐Hill, Wiley, Houghton-‐Mifflin, and Pearson) publish about 80% of all college textbooks”
Source: Loy, Stephen L. eCampus: success! Now what? Journal of the Interna.onal Academy for Case
Studies › Vol. 16 Nbr. 7, October 2010
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ÖzÜ as an example
¨ 49% of the students did not buy their textbook in Spring 2013.
¨ In 2012 spring, 133 .tles were in the course reading collec.on and here they are by their publishers ¤ Pearson 34% ¤ McGrawHill 20% ¤ Wiley 10% ¤ Others 36%
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where to buy e-‐textbook as a student?
¨ CourseSmart CourseSmart hmp://www.coursesmart.com ¨ LearnSmart hmp://learnsmart.prod.customer.mcgraw-‐hill.com
¨ Flatworld Knowledge hmp://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com
¨ Textbooks.com hmp://www.textbooks.com ¨ Kindle e-‐Textbooks hmp://www.amazon.com ¨ nookstudy hmp://www.barnesandnoble.com ¨ Inkling hmps://www.inkling.com ¨ Eleven learning hmp://www.elevenlearning.com ¨ ecampus.com hmp://www.ecampus.com
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where to buy e-‐textbook as a library?
¨ EBL ¨ Ebrary ¨ Ingram-‐myilibrary ¨ Netlibrary-‐Ebsco E-‐books ¨ OverDrive ¨ Dawsonera ¨ Hiperkitap ¨ Publisher sites: McGrawhill, Cengage, Springer...
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e-‐book adapta.on in Turkey
# Subscribed Insitu.on* Ebrary Academic Complete 106
EBSCO eBook Academic Subscrip.on Collec.on 24 Hiperkitap e-‐Kitap Veritabanı 63 Knovel E-‐Books 22 Safari E-‐Books 19 Springer Lecture Notes Series 8 World Ebook Library 38 *ANKOS members
75 86
94 98 103 106
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
# Ebrary subscribers
Aggregator
32% Publisher
68%
ANKOS ebook Providers
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e-‐textbook coverage of the e-‐book packages
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¨ “Given that the UK publishing industry generates around £200 million annually from direct sales of paper textbooks to students, working out an appropriate business model for e-‐textbooks via the library (in a world of co-‐existence) required further research and tes.ng”
Source: JISC na.onal e-‐books observatory project (2009) hmp://etextbook.jiscebooks.org
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¨ “Douglas County Libraries draws upon the USA Today 25 bestsellers list, which includes a nice mix of fic.on, nonfic.on, and children’s .tles. Overall, 12 of the 25 .tles are available to libraries as ebooks”
Source: Harris, Christopher (2013) DCL May Ebook Price Report: The Devil Is in the Details. American Libraries. hmp://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/e-‐content/dcl-‐may-‐ebook-‐price-‐report-‐devil-‐details
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¨ Turkish e-‐book providers are on the rise (idefix, D&R, mnet) but non of them has library purchase model
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ÖzÜ as an example
¨ At ÖzÜ, only 8% of the course readings in spring 2012 was available to purchase as an e-‐book.
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issues regarding e-‐textbook purchase
¨ Student purchase is the dominant model ¨ Most publishers don’t supply e-‐versions of core textbooks via libraries
¨ Need for a pricing models for library-‐delivered e-‐textbooks
¨ The content coverage of e-‐book packages rarely meet the needs of core reading lists in higher educa.on
¨ Inadequate Turkish content ¨ DRM policies differs from one publisher to another ¨ Different func.onali.es on mobile environments
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the way forward
¨ E-‐textbooks are the best star.ng point to engage students in using e-‐books
¨ Students are also future buyers of textbooks ¨ Libraries will con.nue to spend money on textbooks, doesn’t mamer ıf it is electronic or not
¨ Publishers want to sell, libraries wants to purchase, users want to read but current business models lag behınd
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