LIS520 Janes
readings
Kilgour,
UW Libraries FAQ on ebooks, netLibrary
Blumenthal,
Ralph. "College Libraries Set Aside Books in a Digital Age" The New York Times (13 May 2005) available
via e-reserves
eBooks—Costs and Benefits to Academic and Research Libraries,
Springer, 2007
Young, Jeffrey, “Book 2.0: Scholars turn monographs into digital
conversations”, Chronicle of Higher
Education 7/28/2006
Brown, et al, University
Publishing in a Digital Age, Ithaka, July
2007
Carnevale, Dan, “Amazon
to Sell Digital Copies…” Chronicle of
Higher Education 7/6/2007
Stone, Brad, “Are
Books Passe?” New
York Times 9/6/2007
Bell, David A. “The
Bookless Future” The New Republic
5/2/2005
Malama, Landoni
& Wilson, “What
Readers Want: A Study of E-Fiction
Usability”, DLib 11(5), May 2005
Ekman, Richard, “The
Books Google Could Open”, Washington
Post 8/22/2006
Albanese, Andrew, “Scan this Book!”, Library Journal,
8/15/2007
Duguid, Paul, “Inheritance and Loss? A Brief Survey of Google Books”, First Monday
12(8), August 2007
questions for class discussion
What is a book? What are the defining or distinguishing
characteristics of a book?
What did you like and dislike about
reading the electronic (netLibrary) book? What did you find familiar and different from
your typical book reading experiences?
How would you improve the experience?
What advantages does the ebook have? Disadvantages?
What components of codices are missing
from the ebook?
What new ones did you find?
Is Google Book Search a good idea? For whom? Under what circumstances? Who might be hurt by it?
“The Book, Then and Now”, Engines of
Ingenuity #1775 2003
Journal of Electronic Publishing (University of Michigan Press)
Antelope Publishing (no, seriously;
ebooks, including for children, via Web browser)
“Books Get Interactive Makeover”
bbc.co.uk, May 2004
Dreher,
Christopher, “Why Do Books Cost So Much?”, salon.com
“Electronic Books:
Reports of their Death are Greatly Exaggerated”, Online
July/August 2002
Top 20 e-books from Questia, Open eBook Forum's eBook Bestseller List
(August 2004)
Publishers: Get Ready for the New ISBN!
NISO, 2003
Ditlea,
Steve, “The Electronic Paper Chase” Scientific
American, Nov. 1, 2001
“Battle Over Access to Online Books”, New
York Times, 6/17/2002
press release on netLibrary and Gale,
9/30/2002
Esposito,
Joseph J. "The Processed Book" First
Monday 8(3) (3 March 2003)
Mellor,
Phil. "CAMiLEON: Emulation and BBC Domesday"
RLG DigiNews 7(2) (15 April 2003)
Cox,
John, “E-Books: Challenges
and Opportunities”, DLib 10 (10), October 2004
Mattison,
David, “Alice in E-book Land”, Computers in Libraries 22(9), Oct 2002