1. Elizabeth B. Thomsen
NOBLE: North of Boston Library Exchange
February 28, 2012

2.  Downloadable ebooks and audiobooks
 Primarily aimed at public libraries and schools
 Download to computer, ebook reader, MP3
player, smartphone, tablet
 Added Kindle support in September
 Business is booming, especially since
Christmas!

3.  Academic, searchable collections of ebooks
 Typically used for research rather than
reading cover-to-cover
 Provides access to a much larger collection of
books than the library could own and manage
in print
 More accessible to students
 Ebooks as database?

4.  Project Gutenberg
 ManyBooks.net
 What students (and anybody) can do with raw
text: annotated editions, literary mash-ups,
adaptations, illustrated editions

7. Screenshot from Internet Archive Book

21.  Elizabeth Thomsen
 et@noblenet.org