1. NAPLE WORKING GROUP EBOOKS
SUMMARY MEETING MAY 12TH – ATHENS
Diederik van Leeuwen
Director Stichting Bibliotheek.nl

2. We’re making progress! get started! Meeting Milan 2013 – first time
Most issues last year still apply
Some issues diminished:
The use of DRM
Streamed versus download
Not ‘if’ but ‘how’
First results shared
Central message:
get started!

4. dimension
vs.
content ownership
unlimited: long term access and preservation
limited: temporary access, no preservation by PLs
content selection
all titles published & for sale
what publishers allow
national PL cupola/institution
local libraries
content distribution
offline use (download)
online use (streaming)
on site (in library branch)
remote lending (from home)
platform publicly owned
platform privately owned
payment/price
high fee per title, low/no fee per lending
no/low fee per title, high fee per lending
by govt/PL organization (collective agreement)
by end user (pay per use)
after x% pages has been read
after 1st page has been turned
no differentiation recent/older titles
differentiation: head – shoulder – long tail

5. Analyse & Define Models
Basic Toolset
High-level requirements / shared knowledge & experiences that applies to (almost) every country / situation.
For example:
Negotiation skills / experiences
Contracts (conditions / articles)
Lobby / marketing tools
Stand alone (ICT) tools - apps
Analyse & Define Models
example
example
example
Model A
Free basic package
Payed use selection
Centralized budget
One copy / multiple use
Model B
Free ebooks always
Centralized budget
One copy / one use
Model C
Free ebooks public domain and long tail only
Centralized budget
Unlimited use

6. A B ?! C Pay for use Free of charge Right to e-read One copy/one use
One copy / multiple use

7. General arguments for ebooks @ the library

8. Create interest @ publishers
Large publishers tend to be more selective, smaller publisher are more interested > so: ‘size does matter – in our case: the smaller, the better’
Publisher show high interest in statistics, fact finding
Short term: additional revenues
Longer term: digitisation of backlist
Commercial argument: launch pad to large client base
Powerplay: 10% client in books, 50% client in ebooks - ?!

9. First recommendations
Build trust, start (small sized) projects
Split discussions over types of ebooks:
Fiction / non-fiction / educational
Head / shoulder / long tail
Free / public domain / commercial / out of commerce
Centralize budgets (increase bargaining power)
Centralize negatiations & purchase proces
Offer statistics and windows to publishers

10. Next steps
Create platform out of working group (meet twice a year – follow up on Athens, prepare for next meeting)
ReBOOKS – initiative out of Slovenia to create knowledge base online for libraries – EU funding
EU benchmark research (conducted by Dan Mount) – initiative of Belgium and Dutch institutes (funded bij Taalunie) – available October 2014
Develop app – to be used (after slight adaption) by several countries – first set up is offered by Bibliotheek.nl (called ‘Holiday- App’)