[pd-discuss] books2ebooks.eu - E-Books on Demand

Mon Mar 18 13:16:04 UTC 2013

Hi Beat.  Thanks for the link to that service.  It sounds interesting, but
I'm curious as to what happens to the digitized works.  Do they go anywhere
other than to the person who submitted the order?  Are they publicly
available to others at the originating library or would the customer need
to host their personal digital version somewhere (presuming they wanted to
do that).

Tom

On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Estermann Beat <beat.estermann at bfh.ch>wrote:

> Dear all,****
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> Have you thought about mentioning the E-Books on Demand service as an
> alternative approach to digitization agreements:****
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> http://books2ebooks.eu/en****
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> The principle is simple: someone interested in having a PD work scanned
> pays a scanning fee; the institution does the scanning, and the scan is
> made available online to other users.****
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> Licensing practices vary between the different institutions: some provide
> their content in a truly “free” manner; others apply limiting licensing
> terms. Note however that some of the libraries also make works available
> that may not be in the PD. Here some examples:****
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> The National Library of Sweden publishes their scanned works under the ***
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> CC-PD mark:****
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> http://www.books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/nls/en/agb.html****
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> Library am Guisanplatz, Bern, seems to scan not only PD books: "Public ***
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> domain books or books for which we receive a declaration of consent ****
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> from the author or publishing houses are imported by us into the ****
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> digital library of the Library Am Guisanplatz and are thus globally
> available and also preserved for the long term."****
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> There is no contractual limitation as to the use of the material.****
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> http://www.books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/big/en/paymentanddelivery.html****
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> Zentralbibliothek Zürich also doesn't have a contractual limitation ****
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> concerning the use of the material.****
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> http://books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/zbz/en/paymentanddelivery.html****
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> Umea University Library prohibits commercial use in their terms of ****
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> service. At the same time they write: "Digitised books are imported by ***
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> us into the digital library of the Umeå University Library and are ****
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> thus globally available and also long-term preserved."****
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> http://www.books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/umub/en/paymentanddelivery.html****
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> The Royal Library, the National Library and Copenhagen University ****
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> Library by the way haven't updated their Terms yet: "eBooks acquired ****
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> via EOD may be used for personal, non-commercial purposes only. By ****
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> ordering you accept the Terms and Conditions." Furthermore, they offer ***
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> the most expensive service, according to EOD indications (more than ****
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> double of what Zentralbibliothek Zürich is charging; good that there are
> hopes that this will indeed change soon ;-)):****
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> http://www.books2ebooks.eu/csp/en/kb/en/paymentanddelivery.html****
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> You'll find a list with prices and terms of use on the EOD website:****
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> http://books2ebooks.eu/en/prices****
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>  ****
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> Best regards,****
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> Beat Estermann
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