E-BooksMisconceptionsandMissedOpportunities電子文本和電子書之誤解與錯失良機

1、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 codex The advantages of the codex may be lost in the digital world, rather than enhanced,3,Print Preference,64% increase in the number of new boo

2、ks published in the United States from 1999 to 2004 291,920 new US titles in 2006. Computer books are declining but e-texts are not driving publishers from print Number of print books has doubled from 1.1. million to 2.5 million since 1993 Sales of e-texts only 0.2% of all US books sales in 2006 15%

3、 of respondents in a 2005 OCLC survey reported using online texts, compared to 47% who used online bookshops,4,Three Problems,Usability Access Budgeting,5,Codex Advantages,Flipping through text Photocopying Markup Portability Multiple texts open at the same time Indexing Open platform,6,Digital Scro

4、ll,Links to footnotes? Bookmarking? Annotation? Copying? Not portable? Slow Consider that online newspapers are very different from print newspapers. The nature of the medium has be considered in design.,7,Access,No Inter-library loan for digital texts Digital-only publishing? Viability of digital t

5、exts in the future If digital texts are screen only, time spent at library computers goes up. Can libraries supply enough workstations?,8,Reference Works,Reference will shift to digital only Move to subscription rather than purchase Commitment for the future Cost of continual ownership?,9,Reference

6、Works,Access to old data problematical Will digital reference maintain an archive that will provide historical data, variant interpretations? Cost of continual ownership? Will vendors create new back for purchase?,10,Reference Works,Substantial Reference works become invisible: the 34 volumes of Gro

7、ve display as single line in Grove Art Online,11,Discovery vs. Access,Main value of digital texts is discovery: finding the right footnote Digital text platforms are fragmented and search functions limited,12,will do it all anyway?,Many library digital projects isolated and hidden Google, MSN, other

8、 projects fragmented, quality varies MSN just announced that it will not continue to scan books it cant compete with Google and books dont bring in advertising Scholarly apparatus lacking,13,Discovery,Greatest merit of Google Book Search is discovery National copyright deposit agencies should do similar scanning Imagine full-text searchable OPACs,14,The Middle Way?,How people actually use texts should guide choice of forma