NAPLE
WORKING GROUP EBOOKS
SUMMARY MEETING MAY 12TH – ATHENS
Diederik van Leeuwen
Director Stichting Bibliotheek.nl
We’re making progress!
 Meeting Milan 2013 – first time
 Most issues last year still apply
 Some issues diminished:
 The use of DRM
 Streamed versus download
 Not ‘if’ but ‘how’
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content ownership
unlimited: long term access and
preservation
limited: temporary access, no
preservation by PLs
content selection
all titles published & for sale
what publishers allow
national PL cupola/institution
local libraries
offline use (download)
online use (streaming)
on site (in library branch)
remote lending (from home)
platform publicly owned
platform privately owned
high fee per title, low/no fee per
lending
no/low fee per title, high fee per
lending
by govt/PL organization
(collective agreement)
by end user (pay per use)
after x% pages has been read
after 1st page has been turned
no differentiation recent/older
titles
differentiation: head – shoulder –
long tail
content distribution
payment/price
Basic Toolset
High-level requirements / shared knowledge & experiences that
applies to (almost) every country / situation.
For example:
Negotiation skills / experiences
Contracts (conditions / articles)
Lobby / marketing tools
Stand alone (ICT) tools - apps
Analyse & Define Models
Model A
Free basic package
Payed use selection
Centralized budget
One copy / multiple use
Model B
Free ebooks always
Centralized budget
One copy / one use
Model C
Free ebooks public
domain and long tail only
Centralized budget
Unlimited use
Pay for use
Free of charge
A
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B
C
Right to e-read
One copy/one use
One copy / multiple use
General arguments for ebooks
@ the library
Create interest @ publishers
 Large publishers tend to be more selective, smaller
publisher are more interested > so: ‘size does matter –
in our case: the smaller, the better’
 Publisher show high interest in statistics, fact finding
 Short term: additional revenues
 Longer term: digitisation of backlist
 Commercial argument: launch pad to large client base
 Powerplay: 10% client in books, 50% client in ebooks - ?!
First recommendations
 Build trust, start (small sized) projects
 Split discussions over types of ebooks:
 Fiction / non-fiction / educational
 Head / shoulder / long tail
 Free / public domain / commercial / out of commerce
 Centralize budgets (increase bargaining power)
 Centralize negatiations & purchase proces
 Offer statistics and windows to publishers
Next steps
 Create platform out of working group (meet twice a
year – follow up on Athens, prepare for next meeting)
 ReBOOKS – initiative out of Slovenia to create
knowledge base online for libraries – EU funding
 EU benchmark research (conducted by Dan Mount) –
initiative of Belgium and Dutch institutes (funded bij
Taalunie) – available October 2014
 Develop app – to be used (after slight adaption) by
several countries – first set up is offered by
Bibliotheek.nl (called ‘Holiday- App’)
[email protected]