Swimming upstream russia

Swimming upstream russia

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  Swimming upstream Jamie LaRue,Director Douglas County Libraries (CO) <[email protected]> 1
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  Library as lastlink: - Author - Agent - Publisher - Distributor - Reviewer - Library - Reader 2
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  Change 3
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  Technology Economics • Design (EPUB, Sigil, • Sell for $40, Booktype) make $4 • Distribution = Internet • Sell for $9.99, (web page, ftp, email, make $7 Dropbox) Result? Explosion of writing 4
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  In 2010: New commercialtitles: ~300,000 Non-traditional: 2.7 million Small/independent: 290,000 Self-published: ~300,000 Big 5: not so important? 5
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  Theft • DRM • Amazon  drives cost down Pricing • Agency pricing  drives cost up • Variable pricing Irrelevancy Threats 6
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  21st century problem:how to find the book. “Discoverability.” 7
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  • Add Value • Die Where we are 8
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  Reader: I wantit now (but don’t own it anymore) 9
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  Publisher | distributor lockit up 10
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  The Big 5(51% of USA publishing): * HarperCollins: buy again at 26 uses * Random House: 3-5 times the price * Penguin (now owned by RH): wait for 6 months, get 1 year * Macmillan, Simon and Schuster, Hachette: not available at any price So libraries now look to new publishers. 11
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  New publisher models: *Smashwords.com – digital publishing (85% to author) * Unglue.it – set it free * Publishing partnership with library 12
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  • Reviewers –blueinkreview.com • Libraries • Agents (international rights?) • Authors (Creative Commons, gifts) And the rest… 13
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  DCL Model 14
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  Evoke.cvlsites.org 16
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  Questions? 19