{"id":83,"date":"2003-09-29T23:22:23","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T03:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=83"},"modified":"2003-09-29T23:22:23","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T03:22:23","slug":"e-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"E-Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

E-Book Scenarios Updated<\/a> is an article looking back at predictions about e-books. E-books didn’t take off the way the author expected – we don’t all have readers in our pockets. He does however see some clear trends: Use, Not Read; Aggregations, Not Single Works; Instutional Customers, Not Individuals; and Subscription Pricing, Not Transactional.
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\nHere are the “four clear trends”:<\/p>\n

\u00ef\tUse, Not Read\u00f3Books that you consult or read in short sections are more suitable as e-books than those that you read at length. The technical limitations and inconveniences of e-books are tolerable when you’re only reading a few pages. Thus texts, manuals, and reference books, which you use rather than read, work best as e-books. <\/p>\n

\u00ef\tAggregations, Not Single Works\u00f3In a reference collection, bigger is better; a collection of e-books, which can be searched as a single database, is far better for reference than one book. <\/p>\n

\u00ef\tInstitutional Customers, Not Individuals\u00f3As with other types of proprietary online content, most people obtain access to e-book collections through institutions, especially libraries. Several e-book products have subscriptions for individuals, but the real action is in selling to libraries and corporations, which can deliver big customer numbers. <\/p>\n

\u00ef\tSubscription Pricing, Not Transactional\u00f3The growth of the previous trend owes much to flat-rate subscription pricing becoming the norm for e-books. Transactional pricing, in whatever form, is no longer acceptable in most institutional buying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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