{"id":2245,"date":"2010-06-17T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2010-06-17T05:30:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:30:01","slug":"what-if-publishers-are-the-middle-men-between-libraries-and-ebook-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/what-if-publishers-are-the-middle-men-between-libraries-and-ebook-content\/","title":{"rendered":"What if publishers are the “middle men” between libraries and ebook content ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another way of looking at the question “how can public library consortia and publishers play nicely together so that our users have free, technically simple access to ebooks?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

I said in my last post that digital content makes it easy to cut out the middle men, with an instant path from supplier to consumer… and suggested that it was not attractive to publishers for libraries to be “middle men” between them and consumers.<\/p>\n

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Source: i can has cheezburger<\/p><\/div>\n

But – What if publishers are actually disposible “middle men” between library users and content producers ? <\/strong><\/p>\n

What if we can provide a “try before you buy” distribution channel that benefits authors?<\/p>\n

What if we guaranteed eyeballs, clickthroughs and a supportive reading culture directly to authors?<\/p>\n

What if authors directly supplied “pay to own” ebook downloads to consumers, while libraries paid authors for temporary access copies for our users?<\/p>\n

What if the role of library consortia, set up to provide ebook access,\u00a0 was partly to support authors\u00a0 with skills, training, facilities, standardised and open formatting and distribution channels?<\/p>\n

What if instead of paying publishers, we dealt directly with authors ?<\/p>\n

What if instead of trying to persuade publishers to play nicely with us, we turned to our users and asked them to fund us to help directly support authors – or other digital content creators?<\/p>\n

Naive crazytalk maybe. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another way of looking at the question “how can public library consortia and publishers play nicely together so that our users have free, technically simple access to ebooks?” I said in my last post that digital content makes it easy to cut out the middle men, with an instant path from supplier to consumer……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-Ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}