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The issue of E-Publications came up yesterday. A Ph.D. student wanted me to have our main campus library acquire an E-Book that is available through Amazon. I wasn't sure how to do this, so I asked my counterpart selector about the procedure. This is her reply: A couple of things about the book, you can refer regular e-book titles to me, if they are a reasonable price. We put them in the system and then they are available for everyone on all three campuses. Having said that, the one you have below is for a Kindle ebook, which are designed to be purchased and downloaded to one mobile device. We do not have a mechanism for this type of purchase. We can’t buy something to be only read by one person. There are licensing and technical issues which may resolve at some time in the future, but there are barriers now. I tried looking for this title in Coutts Oasis and in Worldcat to see if there are other editions available, and it did not come up. This is definitely problematic even for a University Library of our size and stature. Best, Margaret English On 9/13/2012 2:05 PM, Hol Art Books Info wrote: > This is really interesting. > > Art museums, photographers and other art publishers are currently > really drawn to the iPad as a vehicle for digital publishing. And > they're publishing their books as standalone iPad apps, and into the > iBooks bookstore in two particular formats that are Apple-only (iBooks > Author and fixed layout .epub). As long as this trend continues it > seems like the only viable way for art libraries to collect many of > these things is to purchase an iPad and the individual apps and > e-books to go with it. And then to give patrons access to the device > in the library. Has anyone done this? > > Greg > > -- Margaret English Librarian Department of Art Library University of Toronto 100 St. George St. - 6th floor Toronto, ON. M5S 3G3 (416) 978-5006 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~