Latest posts tagged with #eBooKSOS on Bluesky
LIBRARIES ARE BEING #ENSHITTIFIED: IT’S TIME TO CLOSE THE PROTECTION GAP!
#eBook licences vanish, pricing is excessive and arbitrary, and EU consumer law fails to protect libraries.
The EU's #DigitalFairnessAct must change that!
🔗 knowledgerights21.org/news-story/c...
#libraries #eBookSOS
… habe ich mich zähneknirschend für die elektronische version entschieden. #ebookSOS
im bereich #inhaltserschließung habe ich für unsere germanistik-bibliothek für ein nächstes rudel sprachwissenschaftlicher bücher #RVK-notationen vergeben (mittlerweile nicht mehr per katalogkarten, sondern per […]
medical textbooks: hold my beer.
I remember once getting a request for a two part book that was over a grand!, and no it wasn't illuminated with gold. 🙃
Ridiculous state of things. #ebookSoS
LAUNCHING: Safeguard Access, Empower Europe – An Action Plan to #LetLibrariesBeLibraries
#Libraries face a silent crisis: they are being written out of the digital age. KR21 says it's time to write them back in.
📄 Download: www.knowledgerights21.org/wp-content/u...
#eLending #eBooks #eBookSOS
WEBINAR ALERT | 19 FEBRUARY (11H CET)
ENABLING #LIBRARIES, GUARANTEEING RIGHTS
Join us for the official launch of KR21's 9-point Action Plan: "Safeguard Access, Empower Europe - An Action Plan to #LetLibrariesBeLibraries."
🔗 www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/w...
#eBooks #eBookSOS #eLending
Very sad to hear Dr Paul Ayris has passed away. He was a great champion of libraries and open access, hugely influential, and very supportive of us at #ebookSOS. A great loss to the library and research communities.
www.leru.org/news/in-memo...
Adding in that fewer publishers still will sell e-(text)books to *academic* libraries.(They'd much rather a student cohort all bought an individual copy from a retailer.)
If they do, there are the licensing considerations, such as a limit on the numbers of users at once or "borrows".
#oer #ebooksos
@heroicendeavour.bsky.social @rachelsbickley.bsky.social @yoyohanna.bsky.social #ebooksos
I spy with my little eye 🔍 @heroicendeavour.bsky.social from @openbookcollective.bsky.social on the front row
Nominated last year for campaigning to push for change with eBook access for academic libraries, advocating for legislative change 💪
#ebookSOS #CommunityChampion
In my experience as an academic librarian and with #ebookSOS, too many librarians do NOT know these things, sadly!
The man knows whereof he speaks… #ebookSOS
. @equinoxpub.bsky.social are charging £350 for the ebook of Judaism in Five Minutes (paperback £23.95) #ebookSOS
Caroline Ball smiling at the camera
We are excited to announce that Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social has joined as our new Community Engagement Lead. Hooray! 🥳 Caroline is a committed advocate for libraries, #OpenAccess & knowledge equity, a Trustee at @wikimediauk.bsky.social, & played a key role in the #EbookSOS campaign.
WATCH NOW: webinar recording with @create-glasgow.bsky.social on a new KR21 #eLending study.
#LetLibrariesBeLibraries: The time has come to reassert libraries' public function & their autonomy to build digital collections in the 21st century.
🔗 youtu.be/OuSnJrsm2kI
#eBookSOS
Tuning in to this webinar this morning - we've long discussed how inadequate and outdated copyright laws exacerbate many of the #ebookSOS issues and hinder resolution of them, so it'll be interesting to hear more about a potential competition law angle.
8/ WANT TO HEAR THE DETAILS?
Register now to join @create-glasgow.bsky.social at KR21’s 12:30 CEST webinar today, 15 October.
🔗 www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/1...
#eBooks #eBookSOS #eLending #libraries
7/ BE PART OF THE (R)EVOLUTION
High time to make e-Lending by libraries sustainable and unlock equitable access to culture and knowledge! Spread the word: share this new report + other KR21 resources within your networks.
#eBooks #eBookSOS #eLending #libraries
5/ SEVEN POTENTIAL MARKET POWER ABUSES (CONT’D):
5. Excessive pricing
6. Avoidance of the spirit of other laws (#TDM)
7. Lack of transparency
#eBooks #eBookSOS #eLending #libraries
4/ SEVEN POTENTIAL MARKET POWER ABUSES:
1. Refusals to supply: outright & withdrawals
2. Constructive refusals to supply: restrictive licensing conditions/delayed supply
3. Bundling
4. Unfair trading conditions
#eBooks #eBookSOS #eLending #libraries
3/ WHY THIS MATTERS
Libraries need to empower access to books that is not dependent on the wealth of the reader or solely governed by the licensing terms of rightsholders.
#eBooks #eBookSOS #eLending #libraries
2/ THE FINDINGS
The evidence indicates significant problems in e-Lending markets with respect to market structure, licensing and pricing.
#eBooks #eBookSOS #eLending #libraries
1/ REPORT ALERT!
A brand new KR21 report by @create-glasgow.bsky.social examining the markets for #eLending by academic & public libraries in Europe from #CompetitionLaw and #copyright law perspectives.
🔗 Report: kr21.info/elending-mar...
🔗 Blog post: kr21.info/elending-mar...
#eBookSOS
7 PROBLEMS, 3 OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHANGE & 1 CHANCE TO HEAR IT ALL
Join us Wed 15 Oct (12:30 CEST) for the launch of a KR21 report by @create-glasgow.bsky.social on #eLending market dysfunctions from competition and copyright law perspectives.
Sign up: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#eBookSOS
ONE WEEK TO GO!
Join our 15 October (12:30 CEST) #eLending webinar presenting findings from an upcoming @create-glasgow.bsky.social report for KR21.
Gain insights into challenges, from market structure and licensing to pricing.
🔗 www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/1...
#eBooks #eBookSOS
cartel del evento con el título y la información del enlace
En #Liber2025, FESABID como punto focal de Knowledge Rights 21 en España, organiza una mesa sobre #PréstamoDigitalSeguro
Con la participación de Daniel Cocera (Diputació de Barcelona y coautor del informe iSDL Insight Digital Lending), Isabel Bernal […]
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¿POR QUÉ VISITAR Liber?
Join @aordas.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, KR21 national coordinator for Spain, at the 9 Oct @fesabid.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy panel at #Liber2025 to talk #eLending in Spain and gain insights from KR21-supported research.
#eBookSOS
🔗 www.fesabid.org/eventos/mesa...
#eBOOKSOS SUPPORTERS: LESS THAN 2 WEEKS TO REGISTER!
15 Oct KR21 webinar (12:30 CEST): Join the @create-glasgow.bsky.social report team to get the primer on their analysis for KR21 of #eLending markets in Europe through a competition & copyright law lens
🔗 www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/1...
I'm really excited about having the opportunity to devote all my time and energy to championing and promoting Open Access book publishing, instead of it being a voluntary 'side project' to my day job, as #ebookSOS has necessarily been.
I've signed the contract, so it's official now! Next month I'll be starting a whole new professional life as the Community Engagement Lead at the @openbookcollective.bsky.social - which if you know anything about me and my work with #ebookSOS, is right up my alley! 📚
