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Name of Product / Collection	Year of Introduc-tion?	Number of titles?	Subject areas?	Number of Publishers?	How titles are sold (ie. Title by title, subject collections, both?)	Number of Simultaneous Users?	Check-out required?	Reader or other software?	Display of eBooks?	Printing?	Download?	Copy and Paste?	MARC Records?	Pricing Model?	Consortia?	Exampe of book and pricing	Types of eBooks offered?	New Products and Services?	Market Penetration
ACLS Humanities E-Books	2002	1500	Humanities (history, literature, art history, women’s studies, native american studies, politics, religion)	Over 80	Sold as a collection	unlimited	No	No	HTML	A page at a time	No	No	MARC records are provided free.	Enti re collection is available for annual subscription fee renging from $385-$2000 depending on the size of the institution.	Yes	Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 by David Montejano; Paperback is $21.95; Through HEB this book is available as part of the collection for between 30¢ and $1.78/year, depending on the size of the subscribing institution.	Scholarly, teaching and research oriented	Expanding the list of titles offered.	Over 500 institutional subscribers.
Blackwell	Blackwell has licensed single books through other ebook vendors for a number of years. In January 2007, they launched their first ebook products, Blackwell Reference Online and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online.	Blackwell Reference Online (BRO) includes almost 300 ebooks.	Social Sciences, Humanities, Business, and Economics	One (Blackwell Publishing)	BRO can be bought as a complete collection or is available as six s eparate subject collections: Business and Economics; History; Language and Linguistics; Literature and Cultural Studies; Philosophy and Religion; Sociology and Psychology.	unlimited	No	No	HTML	Yes	Yes	Yes	MARC records are provided at no additional fee.	Available as a one-time purchase with unlimited access. Libraries can choose to buy the complete collection or one of six subject collections. New titles published during the course 2007 will be automatically added. New titles and editions published in subsequent years will be available to purchase for a fee.	Yes	The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online (BEOS) is available for purchase separately from Blackwell Reference Online; The 11-volume print set is priced at $1995; To purchase BEOS online with perpetual access rights costs $1995 for a small institution, according to FTE.	Reference material, including the Blackwell Companions and Handbooks, major ref erence works like the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management, and other materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, and concise companions.	Plan to launch medical books online in the future.	Primary buyers are university libraries. They have licensed access to major libraries in North America, Europe, and Asia.
CRC Press NetBASES	1999, beginning with ENGnetBASE and CHEMnetBASE	Over 4,700	Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Environmental Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Information Technology, Life Science, Forensics, Food, and Agriculture	CRC Press, Chapman & Hall, and Routledge	As part of subject collections. Over 35 subject specific online libraries are currently available.	unlimited	No	No	PDF	Yes, generally unlimited per book.	Yes	No	Yes, provided free of charge	Flat pricing for unlimited access for academic, corporate, and government libraries. 50% discount for community colleges.	Yes, discounted pricing is based on the product and the size of the consortia.	FORENSICnetBASE; Annual subscription cost of $2,995; Print book value of over $16,000.	Academic: Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Research, and Reference, Encyclopedias and Chemical Dictionaries	To continue to increase the number of netBASE collections in different subject areas and continue to add titles to available collections.	Primary audience is academic and research libraries. The netbase collections have been successful in the US as well as UK/ROW.
EBook Library (EBL)	1997	49,000 as of April, 2007. The EBL catalog grows by 1,000-2,000 new titles per month.	All academic subject areas	Nearly 200	eBooks are available for free browsing; title-by-title purchasing; parameter-based purchasing; demand-driven rental; demand-driven purchasing; and as chapters of owned titles for electronic-reserve use.	Multiple-concurrent users for all purchased titles.	No	No	PDF	Yes	Yes	Yes	EBL MARC records are provided free.	eBooks can be purchased and owned perpetually for a one-time fee. Libraries have the option to pay an incremental platform fee surcharge of 15% per transaction. There are no annual maintenance fees in effect during the platform fee payment period or for one year thereafter. After that, annual fees are applied only to new title purchases. Libraries may pay either $750 per year or 15% per new transaction, their choice.	EBL does not provide collection sharing for most consortia, but does provide special discount structures for consortia members.	Bayesian Statistical Modelling by Peter Congdon; Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; eBooks is available from EBL for $110 for multiple-concurrent users; The list price for the same title in print is also $110.	Scholarly and research ebooks in all academic subjects – monographs, reference works, and some textbooks.	Forthcoming developments include interactive notes functionality, extended page-range printing, and new ways for patrons to organize and access their 'favorite' content. Also expanding chapter-level capabilities and pay-per-view access. Upgrading usage statistics reporting to include additional, real-time analysis, profiling tools for demand-driven access MARC, and new title alerts.	No figure currently available for the number of ebooks sold annually. Primary audience consists of academic, corporate, and government libraries.
Elsevier	The first book online was launched in January 2001. In 2004 the Book Series were added, and in 2005 the Handbook Series.	58 multi-volume Major Reference Work titles; 151 Book Series titles; 26 Handbook titles. New volumes published regularly.	Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Geneti cs and Molecular Biology; Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Energy; Engineering; Environmental Science; Immunology and Microbiology; Material Sciences; Mathematics; Medicine and Dentistry; Neuroscience; Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science; Physics and Astronomy; Psychology; Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine	Elsevier books and several imprints, including Academic Press, Pergamon, JAI, New Holland, Elsevier, Butterworth Heinneman.	Both. Libraries can create their own list of titles across all subject areas and book types, or select one of the subject packages.	unlimited	No	No	Both PDF and HTML	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not at this time, but will offer MARC records by OCLC for free in the near future.	Two options: an Annual Subscription Option for all serialized book content or Reference Works, and a One-Time Payment Option for all “standalone” book types. No ongoing maintenance fees are charged to ScienceDirect customers.	Yes	Specific title information not provided. Pricing is available at: http://info.sciencedirect.com/licensing/books. Pricing varies by book type. For the upcoming eBooks portfolio, the electronic prices will be the same as the print prices for small customers. The largest customer pays 1.5 times the print prices.	Academic reference and research oriented material for academic and corporate research environments.	This year Elsevier is launching 4000 new titles on ScienceDirect. Going forward Elsevier will simultaneously publish all the academic Science and Technology titles both in print and electronically.	Currently about 15% of ScienceDirect customers have bought online books. The Academic and Governmental institutions are Elsevier's prime customers; corporate companies and colleges are also targeted.
Gale Virtual Reference Library	Began offering eBooks in 2003, starting with only Gale titles. Titles from other publishers were added in 2005.	More than 1,000 reference works from 35 different publishers, accounting for more than 1,600 total volumes.	Reference works focusing on a variety of subjects.	35 reference publishers	Both. The full collection can also be purchased.	unlimited	No	No	Both PDF and HTML	Yes	Yes, individual articles can be downloaded, emailed, and linked to.	Yes	MARC records are provided free of charge.	Available as a one-time purchase, with the pricing based on institution size for academics, # of library cardholders for public libraries, and is site-based for K12. There is an annual hosting fee based on the number of eBooks purchased, which starts out as $50 annually.	Yes	Specific title information not provided. Pricing is based on institution type, size, print holdings, size of purchase, etc. For K-12 for example, eBooks tend to be 10% greater than the print price.	Primary focus is on multi-volume, narrative reference.	Just launched an updated interface for the Gale Virtual Reference Library, which is on the PowerSearch platform. eBooks are also now available in other languages. Also exploring the creation of downloadable audio versions of a number of Gale eBooks to help students and users make better use of the content.	eBooks are being sold into every library type. Academics, Publics and K12 libraries are all buying equally.
Greenwood	2004	3800+	Reference, General Interest , and Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences	Three Imprints of Greenwood Pu blishing Group: Greenwood Press; Praeger; Libraries Unlimited	Both		No	No	HTML	Yes	Not yet.	Yes	OCLC MARC records are available at cost.	eBooks can be obtained via a one-time purchase with a small annual maintenance fee or on an annual access basis.	Yes	The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature; Print is $499.95; Ebook is $549.95. Volume discounting is available with eBooks that can lower these costs.	Reference; General Interest Non-fiction; Academic Monographs; Professional Development for high school, college, and public libraries.	Improved user interface features and back-end ordering and title management functionality.	Sell to libraries of all kinds to support their various patrons. Greenwood makes virtually all of their books available for sale in print or ebook format, with ebook interest growing markedly.
MyiLibrary	October 2004< /td>	Offer over 65,000 eBooks, with a further 20,000 in production	Offer a selection of titles in every single subject area of the LC Classification.	Over 350 publishers	eBooks can be sold on a title-by-title basis, or as part of subject collections. There is no minimum purchase, so an institution can purchase one title, or an entire collection.	Dependent on the user license purchased by the Institution. MyiLibrary offers single or multiple concurrent user licenses depending on the needs of the Institution.	No	No	File format is often dependant on the file supplied by the Publisher. The MyiLibrary platform can support any file format, be it HTML, XML, PDF or another.	Yes, within copyright restrictions.	Yes, one page at a time.	Yes, within copyright restrictions.	MARC records are offered with every title as part of the eBook sale. Institutions have the opportunity to customize the MARC records.	MyiLibra ry’s pricing model is based on perpetual access to individual titles, and dependant on the level of concurrent usage required. There is also a nominal annual platform maintenance fee.	Yes	Specific title information not provided. The MyiLibrary pricing model is tailored to the needs of each individual institution.	Collection as a whole is primarily reference material, but also contains titles from publishers of topical and general interest materials.	Just launched its eBook Loans service in partnership with CISTI, an electronic twist on the traditional library-interlending model. Each loan costs US$25, and users have access to an eBook for 30 days through a URL.	MyiLibrary concentrates on providing aggregated eBook services to Academic, Governmental, Corporate and Public Library user communities worldwide.
OverDrive	1990	50,000 downloadable e-books, 11,000 audio books, 3500 videos, and 5,000 music files.	Fiction, Travel, IT, S elf-Help, Business, History, Juvenile Literature, Art, Biography, Romance, Fantasy, Reference, etc.	400 publishers	Title-by-title and subscription options are both available	While the basic collection is a one-title-one-user model, customers can use the “Max Access” model for some audio books and videos, which for the Digital Library Reserve platform allows unlimited checkouts at one time.	Yes	Depending on the eBook, Adobe Reader or Mobipocket, which are both free, can be used to view eBooks.	Two formats: Adobe Reader, a PDF image; and Mobipocket, a PRC format.	Users can print eBooks or portions of an eBook if the publisher permits. Some publishers choose not to let their e-books be printed.	Publishers may give permission for users to print the entirety of a book or only portions of a book.	Users can copy and paste eBooks or portions of an eBook if the publisher permits. Some publishers choose not to allow this.	MARC records m ay be integrated with OverDrive’s platform, and can be purchased from OCLC.	There is a fee to set up the platform, which includes the cost of Web site development, integration with the library ILS, training, promotion and other services, and then books are purchased individually at a price that is generally 30-70% lower than that of print books or books on discs.	Yes	Next by Michael Crichton; Available through OverDrive for $19.95; Available in print for $27.95.	Fiction, Travel, IT, Self-Help, Business, History, Juvenile Literature, Art, Biography, Romance, Fantasy, Reference, and more.	Working to provide libraries with interactive games and software that can be provided to patrons for checkout through the same program used to download e-books, audio books, music, and videos.	6,000 library customers in 42 states and seven countries.
Oxford University Press (Oxford Digital Reference Shelf and Oxford Scholarship Online)	2005	Over 1,200 titles available as eBooks	The monograph program currently covers Economics and Finance, Philosophy, Political Science and Religion. The reference eBook program covers a broad range of topics with individual reference works in history, literature, linguistics, science, the arts, cultural studies, and economics.	1 (OUP)	Monographs are sold as part of subject collections, reference books are sold on a title-by-title basis.	unlimited	No	No	HTML	Yes	No	Yes	MARC records are provided, and there is no additional fee. They are provided as part of the sale.	Two models for Oxford Scholarship Online (the monographs): subscription and perpetual access, and pricing is based on institution size. For the Reference titles, OUP offers a purchase model, based on size of the institution and unlimited access.	Yes	Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, 4 volume set; Print is $495; Level A (up to 1,000 students at 4 year school), $544.50 for the eBook version; Various savings for the more eBooks purchased.	The majority of the eBooks (over 1200) offered are scholarly monographs in OSO. There are 20+ multivolume reference titles available in the eBook format.	Announced a major expansion of the Oxford Scholarship Online program beginning in the Fall of 2007, with the addition of 9 new subject collections.	This was a growth year for the “purchase” model for Oxford Scholarship Online, as well as the Digital Reference Shelf. The core market for both products is the 4-year institution library.
Safari	Spring 2001	Books: 4,520; Video: 90 titles; Rough Cuts: 33; Short Cuts: 96	IT, Business, Desktop and Creative Professional topics	Approximately 46	Safari is a subscription service.	Multiple users may view a single book at any one given time.	Through a subscription to the “bookshelf” service, you may check out a set number of books.	No	The user has the option to view the book as a PDF, HTML or Print Fidelity (in cases where appropriate to the text format).	Yes, the user has the option of printing, emailing a page from the book, adding notes, and book marking the pages.	Yes, a certain number of chapters are downloadable depending upon subscription level.	Yes	No	Books can be purchased outright through publishers.	Yes	Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition; Print is $44.95; Online, with discount of 35%, is $29.22.	Non-fiction reference and learning content for IT, business, and creative profesionals.	3 new services: 1) Video-based technical and design courses presented by industry experts; 2) Safari Labs - users can discover prototypes or betas of new features; and 3) Nested Search – users can combine search terms to reduce a long list of search results to a more targeted list.	Sell to both individuals, such as IT professionals, and business audiences.
SpringerLink	June 2006	1,800 peer reviewed journals, 16,000 eBooks, and over 93 eReference Works.	12 Subject Collections: Architecture, Design and Arts; Behavioral Science; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Business and Economics; Chemistry and Materials Science; Computer Science; Environmental and Geoscience; Engineering; Humanities, Social Sciences and Law; Mathematics and Statistics; Medicine; and Physics and Astronomy.	All Springer imprints, such as Apress, Birkhäuser, and soon to be added Humana Press.	Access to the e-book content is provided as an annual subscription package. Individual eBook titles are not available as a subscription directly from Springer, but are available from Springer’s distribution partners, including book wholesalers and agents.	unlimited	No	No	Content is accessible via PDF or HTML format.	Yes, users can print any portion of a book. Cannot distribute copies for commercial use.	Yes, users can download any portion of a book. Cannot distribute copies for commercial use.	Yes, users can cut and paste portions of an eBook, but are bound to copyright laws and practices.	Springer has developed MARC 21 records that can be imported into an online catalogs. The records are available for free to libraries that have purchased a collection.	eBooks are offered in 12 subject collections. The price is determined based on the size of the institution and number of collections purchased. eBook collections are sold at a significant discount over print titles, when purchased in a collection.	Yes	Specific title information not provided. eBooks are sold in collections.	Scientific and research oriented book products, including monographs, text books, handbooks, atlases, reference works, journals, book series and scholarly works.	Continue to quickly grow the overall collection and offer more scientific disciplines. Ne w features and functionality will depend on what users and librarians want.	Academic, corporate, and government libraries.
Taylor and Francis	2001	Over 16,500 eBooks on the T&F platform	All tertiary level subjects in Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Science & Technology	Only imprints of the Taylor & Francis Group (e.g. Routledge, Psychology Press, CRC, Garland Science)	eBooks are sold in two ways: annual subscription or perpetual outright sale. Books can be purchased or subscribed to in a subject package or on a title by title basis.	In annual Subscription packages: 5 simultaneous users to each book. In outright purchase: 1 simultaneous user (additional simultaneous users may be negotiable).	Yes	No	Currently in DX Reader format, no plug in necessary. Forthcoming on InformaWorld in both PDF and HTML, where users can choose and switch from one format to the other.	Yes, generally unlimited per book o r per user ID, but limited to 30 pages per user session to prevent abuse.	No	No	Yes, free of charge.	eBooks are available as an annual subscription (usually at around 25% of full retail price). eBooks can also be purchased outright. The eBooks retail for the same price as the cloth/hardback print edition. Annual maintenance fee for outright purchase is dependent upon how many titles are purchased.	Yes, offer consortial discounts. Do not offer generally cross shareholding to consortia.	Specific title information not provided. Media & Film Studies eBook Package: 242 titles; Annual Subscription cost: $4,712; Outright purchase fee $26,732; Retail price of print books is also $26,732.	Non Fiction, Academic: Undergraduate, Psotgraduate and Research	The T&F eBook platform will migrate to InformaWorld later in 2007, when customers will be able to access and to search across all T&F eBooks and over 1200 electronic journals at the same time.	T&F eBooks have been sold in UK, Europe and ROW over the past three to four years, but the service is less well known in the USA, where the CRC netbases are better known.
Wiley	2002	More than 2500 ebooks (branded OnlineBooks) and 79 Reference Works.	Cover 14 subject areas across the scientific, technical, medical, and business disciplines, including business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environmental science, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine and health	John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (Blackwell Publishing books will be included in the future).	OnlineBooks are sold on a title-by-title basis. Customers can select the titles they wan t with a minimum order of 20 titles. Wiley will make title recommendations based on subject area.	unlimited	No	No	For OnlineBooks, table of contents and chapter summaries are in HTML, with full text in PDF format. Reference Works are in full HTML, with some also available in PDF format.	Yes	Yes	Yes	MARC records for OnlineBooks are available from OCLC for a fee or as part of a library’s subscription with OCLC.	Two pricing models: 1) One-Time Fee: Purchase on a title-by-title basis. A minimum of 20 titles is required. The price is equivalent to the price of the hardcover print version. 2) Flex-Subscription: A subscription fee is paid per title, based on the size of the institution (subject to a 20 title minimum). There are no ongoing maintenance costs.	Yes, on a case by case basis.	Fine Chemicals: The Industry and the Business by Peter Pollak; Print is $99.95; Under the One-Time Fee, the eBook would be $99.95; Und er the Flex-Subscription model, the book would be $60, $70, or $80 per year for three years, and then the library would gain ongoing access.	Research and reference material.	For OnlineBooks: Email alerting for librarians on publication of new titles (also considering delivery via RSS); improved search functionality; and improved information about each title. For Reference Works: New functionality, such as enhanced search capabilities, easier subject browsing, and expanded article display options; and MARC records via OCLC.	Primary buyers are academic, research, and corporate libraries. Hundreds of customers throughout the world. Sales have doubled in the past year and are set for strong growth in 2007. Most customers are choosing the One-Time Fee (purchase) option.
Xreferplus	1999	As of April 2007, Xreferplus includes 270 titles. 246 are available through the core Xrefer offerings; and 24 additional titles are available for individual selection and subscription.	Humanities including history, literature, art, music and philosophy; Science and technology including biology, astronomy, physics, and mathematics; Social Sciences; Medicine; Law; Business; Religion; Food and Wine; Bilingual and monolingual dictionaries; Biography; Quotations	Currently, 57 reference publishers are represented.	Core reference titles are sold in packages, including a pick-and-mix selection of 100 titles of the library’s choice and an “unlimited” option that includes the full set of core reference titles. In addition, Xreferplus offers some titles for which individual title subscriptions are available.	unlimited	No	No	Full text is in HTML, and graphics are either jpg or gif. Audio files (used for example in dictionary word pronunciations) are mp3 files. Xrefer has recently incorporated flash files for video.	Yes. According to the Xrefer terms and conditions of use, users can print out single copies of individual e ntries for purposes of private study or research.	Yes. As per the Xrefer terms and conditions of use, users can electronically download individual entries.	Yes. As per the Xrefer terms and conditions of use, users can copy and paste individual entries included.	MARC records are provided free-of-charge through the librarians’ administrative module. Records include the 856 field with links to the title in Xreferplus, and have been updated to include both ISBN-10 and ISBN-13.	Two subscription options are available for the core reference titles: 1) A pick-and-mix selection of 100 titles of the library’s choice, and 2) An “unlimited” option that includes the full set of core reference titles (and continues to grow during the subscription period as titles are added). Additional Xrefer titles can be ordered individually or added to one of Xreferplus' core reference solutions.	Yes, consortial discounts are available on request.	Specific title information not provided. Xreferplus is an online aggregation of reference material. Xrefer does not offer the print version of its reference titles, and in some cases there is no equivalent print title. Some Xreferplus reference titles are available for individual subscriptions. A full list of these titles is available at http://www.xrefer.com/libraries/specialist.	General Encyclopedias; Subject Encyclopedias and Subject Dictionaries; Dictionaries, Bi-linguals, and Subject Bi-linguals; Glossaries and Thesauri; Guides; Atlases and Gazeteers; The Bible and Qu’ran; Biographical Dictionaries; Quotations	Focused on enhancing the user’s experience of f inding context when they need it, getting a quick fact, and the exploration of content. Will enable access to Xreferplus from an increasing range of other services and devices, such as mobile phones. Continuing to develop tools which help the novice searcher query systems to discover key concepts in their fields of interest.	In 2006, Xrefer experienced a 33% growth in new customers in North America and is now accessible in thousands of libraries worldwide. The Xreferplus targets Academic, Public and School (9-12) libraries.