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mardi, 15 avril 2008

E-books et comportements informationnels

Du 14 au 16 avril se tient la London Book Fair. A voir ce billet: Understanding e-books and information behaviours (source: IWR Blog):

Extrait:
[...] Janke [Sage Publishing] admitted how end-users; both faculty and students, will go to Google and Wikipedia first for information rather than the library and therefore e-books. His problem as a publisher was to ask, how you get them to your content.
There was talk of various initiatives, business models and marketing plans, which all involved the library and publisher making efforts in the attempt to address this. Both Janke and Carden admit that librarians complain of too many pricing models and collections, although in the experience of both, a one size fits all approach won’t be right for librarians either. As Jenke pointed out, “Librarians say they aren’t there to market publisher’s content”
That’s interesting because as was said more than once during the seminar, users don’t care who the publisher is. [...]