Ebook, Heartache, working links

1. BIBLIOTHEKSPOLIZEI | UNIT 411
The EBook headache

2. Starting at the start.
Before we get all up in Amazon’s grill, we
should take a look back to see how all this
crazy stuff eBook drama got started.
After all, those who don’t known something
something will have to something something.

3. Michael Hart
Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart
created the first ebook after deciding to type
the US Declaration of Independence into a
computer in 1971. Yeah, man 1971!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/sep/
08/michael-hart-inventor-ebook-dies

4. The Dynabook

5. Dynabook
"The Dynabook concept, created by Alan Kay in
1968,described what is now known as a laptop
computer or (in some of its other incarnations) a
tablet or slate computer with nearly eternal
battery life and software aimed at giving children
access to digital media. Adults could also use a
Dynabook, but the target audience was children.“
http://bit.ly/2H4ygI

6. The Data Diskman

7. The Data Discman
“The Data Discman's purpose was for a quick
access to electronic reference information on
a pre-recorded disc. Searching for information
on disc were entered using a QWERTY-style
keyboard and utilized the "Yes" and "No"
keys.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Discman

8. Forgive the Wikipedia Cheese

9. Moving Along
Back in 1998 libraries had eBooks. Word.
“August 1998, netLibrary [http://www.netlibrary.com]
was founded. This privately held company has
attracted funding from a wide array of sources, venture
capitalists, as well as Internet and media companies
such as McGraw-Hill. In the 2 years since its
founding, netLibrary has worked to provide an end-to-
end solution that includes everything from digital
conversion to distribution.” http://bit.ly/ADvTUH

10. Why the history tour?
The eBook isn’t new nor is the concept of iPad
or iPhone, etc. Technological advances and
exploitation make them possible, they are not
gifts from the gods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Contro
versies

11. E-Readers
When E-Readers became affordable they
became gifts. http://nyti.ms/bF0nvw
When the receiver of the gift realized that it
would cost money for books they started to
head to the library…

12. E-Readers
Now that they head to the library, the libraries
have to get eBooks…and show people how to
use them…and explain the different polices for
them…and in a way start subsidizing tech
support for those devices and the companies
that offer eBook services.

13. Tax dolla dolla bill ya’ll
Since libraries “have eBooks” and managing
expectations of the public is like drinking
water out of a fire hose, libraries are in a
pickle. Now we have a new expense, new
expectations, shrinking budgets, and at the
same time we are making E-Readers more
sexy because we have eBooks.

14. One more time
I say unto you, we make getting an E-Reader
cooler because owners can come to the library
and get eBooks.
I really want you think about that point.

15. Dangers of EBooks
• Amazon requires users to identify themselves to get an ebook.
• • In some countries, including the US, Amazon says the user cannot own the ebook.
• • Amazon requires the user to accept a restrictive license on use of the ebook.
• • The format is secret, and only proprietary user-restricting software can read it at all.
• • An ersatz “lending” is allowed for some books, for a limited time, but only by
• specifying by name another user of the same system. No giving or selling.
• • To copy the ebook is impossible due to Digital Restrictions Management in the player.
• and prohibited by the license, which is more restrictive than copyright law.
• • Amazon can remotely delete the ebook using a back door. It used this back door in 2009
• to delete thousands of copies of George Orwell's 1984.
• http://stallman.org/articles/ebooks.pdf
• MAKE IT BIGGER !!

16. Where are we?
We are paying for something we don’t own
under some shady businesses while betraying
some of the core values of our profession.

17. 

18. We has a bit of a fail.

19. What to do?

20. Fight Back
• Keep ALA honest and email them with your
concerns. http://bit.ly/zDq7I5
• Keep the pressure up on these companies in
social media.
• Remember that 1,000 people can represent
those of hundreds of millions.
http://bit.ly/b2OnCS

21. Stay Strong