Just Out: A Special Issue of NISO's Information Standards Quarterly Focuses on eBooks

Direct to Full Text of Spring 2011 Issue (Vol. 23 No. 2)

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From a NISO Announcement and Summary:

 ISQ Guest Content Editor, October Ivins of Ivins eContent Solutions has pulled together a broad range of perspectives on what is happening today with e-books and particularly with e-book standards. As she states in her introductory letter: “Our goal for this issue of ISQ is to present an overview of the status of e-books from multiple perspectives-publishers and other content producers, librarians, and the many vendors who support their creation, management, sales, and distribution. Not coincidentally, it also illustrates the scope of the NISO community.”

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“This special issue of ISQ emphasizes the growing importance of e-books throughout the library publishing and related information systems and services communities,” states Todd Carpenter, NISO Managing Director. “While NISO is already engaged in e-books in a number of areas, we’ve announced in the issue the formation of a Special Interest Group on E-books, which will be exploring the larger context in which e-book related events are unfolding, facilitating cross-community dialogue and recommending areas where NISO can foster standards or recommended practices.”

Articles Include:

• EPUB 3: Not Your Father’s EPUB
  by Bill Kasdorf

• Ten Questions and Tentative Answers about the State of E-book Publishing for University Presses
  by Marlie Wasserman

• E-books and the Public Library: the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library Experience
  by Mollie Pharo and Marcia Learned Au

• Drinking the E-book Kool-Aid in a Large Academic Library
  by Wendy Allen Shelburne

• Standard Spotlight: The Challenge for Standards in the E-book Supply Chain
  by Mark Bide

• Member Spotlight: E-books on EBSCOhost: Combining NetLibrary E-books with the EBSCOhost Platform
  by Michael Gorrell

• The Evolution of Accessible Publishing: Revising the Z39.86 DAISY Standard
  by Matt Garrish and Markus Gylling

• NISO E-books SIG
  by Todd Carpenter

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Read the Complete NISO Announcement and Summary

Direct to Full Text of Spring 2011 Issue (Vol. 23 No. 2)

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Filed under: Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Management and Leadership, Public Libraries, Publishing