Full Text Report Provides Intro/Overview to Ebook Preservation
The report linked below was released as part of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) Technology Watch series.
Title
Preserving eBooks (DPC Technology Watch Report 14-01; June 2014)
Authors
Amy Kirchhoff
Portico
Sheila Morrissey
Ithaka S+R
Source
Digital Preservation Coalition
Abstract
This report discusses current developments and issues with which public, national, and higher education libraries, publishers, aggregators, and preservation institutions must contend to ensure long-term access to eBook content. These issues include legal questions about the use, reuse, sharing and preservation of eBook objects; format issues, including the sometimes tight coupling of eBook content with particular hardware platforms; the embedding of digital rights management artefacts in eBook files to restrict access to them; and the diverse business ecosystem of eBook publication, with its associated complexities of communities of use and, ultimately, expectations for preservation.
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36 pages; PDF.
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Filed under: Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Preservation, Reports
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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