EBooks Misconceptions and Missed Opportunities電子文本和電子書之誤解與錯失良機.ppt
E-Texts and E-Books:Misconceptions and Missed Opportunities電子文本和電子書之誤解與錯失良機,2,E-Text Not an E-Book,Electronic texts are more analogous to a scroll than a codexThe advantages of the codex may be lost in the digital world,rather than enhanced,http:/,3,Print Preference,64%increase in the number of new books published in the United States from 1999 to 2004291,920 new US titles in 2006.Computer books are declining but e-texts are not driving publishers from printNumber of print books has doubled from 1.1.million to 2.5 million since 1993Sales of e-texts only 0.2%of all US books sales in 200615%of respondents in a 2005 OCLC survey reported using online texts,compared to 47%who used online bookshops,http:/,4,Three Problems,UsabilityAccessBudgeting,http:/,5,Codex Advantages,Flipping through textPhotocopying MarkupPortabilityMultiple texts open at the same timeIndexing Open platform,http:/,6,Digital Scroll,Links to footnotes?Bookmarking?Annotation?Copying?Not portable?SlowConsider that online newspapers are very different from print newspapers.The nature of the medium has be considered in design.,http:/,7,Access,No Inter-library loan for digital textsDigital-only publishing?Viability of digital texts in the futureIf digital texts are screen only,time spent at library computers goes up.Can libraries supply enough workstations?,http:/,8,Reference Works,Reference will shift to digital onlyMove to subscription rather than purchaseCommitment for the futureCost of continual ownership?,http:/,9,Reference Works,Access to old data problematicalWill digital reference maintain an archive that will provide historical data,variant interpretations?Cost of continual ownership?Will vendors create new backfile sets for purchase?,http:/,10,Reference Works,Substantial Reference works become invisible:the 34 volumes of Grove display as single line in Grove Art Online,http:/,11,Discovery vs.Access,Main value of digital texts is discovery:finding the right footnoteDigital text platforms are fragmented and search functions limited,http:/,12,will do it all anyway?,Many library digital projects isolated and hiddenGoogle,MSN,other projects fragmented,quality variesMSN just announced that it will not continue to scan books it cant compete with Google and books dont bring in advertisingScholarly apparatus lacking,http:/,13,Discovery,Greatest merit of Google Book Search is discoveryNational copyright deposit agencies should do similar scanningImagine full-text searchable OPACs,http:/,14,The Middle Way?,How people actually use texts should guide choice of formatConsider ramifications of digital worldSharingCostsFinancial Equipment/Space/TimeArchivingPush for better discovery tools,http:/,15,Nestaln.edu.hk,http:/,
