c/o Katina Strauch 209 Richardson Avenue MSC 98, The Citadel Charleston, SC 29409 CHARLESTON CONFERENCE ISSUE TM VOLUME 27, NUMBER 5 NOVEMBER 2015 ISSN: 1043-2094 “Linking Publishers, Vendors and Librarians” STL and Emerging eBook Business Models by Rebecca Seger (Senior Director, Institutional Sales, Oxford University Press) <[email protected]> and Lenny Allen (Director, Institutional Accounts, Oxford University Press) <[email protected]> ate last year, when Katina approached STL and other new models are disrupters, don’t want is to simply carry on with print us about the possibility of editing an and we, together, both publisher and librarian, models in digital as if they are one and the Lissued of ATG dedicated to STL, our need to be prepared for and to accept this as an same. We have just begun to scratch the surface first thought was “What will there be left to ongoing feature of our landscape. And, equally of what is possible in a digital environment talk about by November of 2015? Won’t we important, to consider the impact on the authors for all forms of scholarly communication, all have moved on by then?” Well, the short and faculty we both serve. and certainly new models and new modes of answer is “no.” We haven’t entirely moved We believe that we will continue to see new accessibility will come along that we have not on, and the sea of scholarly communications, models come and go and that this iterative cycle even thought of yet. the one in which we all swim, continues to be of acceptance and rejection is something we In addition to publisher views on demand- roiled by Short-Term Loans (STL) and other need to learn to live with. Perhaps journals, driven acquisition models like STL and its impact evolving and emerging business models for so much farther ahead than eBooks in staking on the current scholarly publishing business digital monographs, not to mention all the other out the digital territory, offer an analogy for us model, we have the consortia perspective formats that are equally important but outside to consider. The big deal was considered by provided by Kathi Fountain, Collection of our immediate scope here. almost all, and for some time, to Services Program Manager of the Orbis We are all of us living through actually be a good deal as well un- Cascade Alliance. The Alliance was an early an era in which the advent of digital til, for some institutions, it wasn’t, adopter of STL as a model at the consortial level, everything is producing enormous as the journal-publishing world and Kathi explains more about their original disruption in many areas. 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From Your Editor ................................ 6 Deadlines .............................................. 6 Editor: Katina Strauch (College of Charleston) FEATURES Associate Editors: Rosann Bazirjian (UNC-Greensboro) STL and Emerging eBook Business Models Cris Ferguson (Murray State) Guest Editors, Rebecca Seger and Lenny Allen Tom Gilson (College of Charleston) John Riley (Consultant) STL and Emerging eBook Business DDA In Context ................................. 20 Research Editors: Models .................................................. 1 Defining a Comprehensive eBook Acquisition Judy Luther (Informed Strategies) by Rebecca Seger and Lenny Allen — We Strategy in an Access-driven World by Jason Assistants to the Editor: haven’t entirely moved on, and the sea of Price and Maria Savova — If libraries ensure Ileana Strauch scholarly communications, the one in which we that any money saved via DDA and STL in a Toni Nix (Just Right Group, LLC) all swim, continues to be roiled by Short-Term given year is immediately reinvested in books, Editor At Large: that would go a long way toward supporting the Dennis Brunning (Arizona State University) Loans (STL) and other evolving and emerging business models. path to ongoing book publishing sustainability. Contributing Editors: Rick Anderson (University of Utah) The Evolving DDA Project at the Orbis Reflections on the 2011 PDA issue ... 26 Sever Bordeianu (U. of New Mexico) Cascade Alliance ................................ 10 by Xan Arch — Xan was curious what the Todd Carpenter (NISO) authors from the 2011 ATG issue on PDA Bryan Carson (Western Kentucky University) by Kathleen Carlisle Fountain — DDA let thought about their articles now and how PDA Eleanor Cook (East Carolina University) us collectively own and share a variety of has changed since then. Anne Doherty (Choice) eBooks that had demonstrated value to the Anthony Ferguson Ruth Fischer (SCS / OCLC) membership. STL: A Publisher’s Perspective ....... 28 Michelle Flinchbaugh (U. of MD Baltimore County) Academic Libraries and the Scholarly by Rebecca Seger and Lenny Allen — Pub- Joyce Dixon-Fyle (DePauw University) lishers, by and large, have made a commitment Laura Gasaway (UNC, Chapel Hill) Book Marketplace: Death by 1,000 to supporting libraries in their desire not to pay Chuck Hamaker (UNC, Charlotte) [Paper]Cuts? ...................................... 14 William M. Hannay (Schiff, Hardin & Waite) for content until there is use. Mark Herring (Winthrop University) by Michael Zeoli — It is what has happened An Interview with Kari Paulson ...... 32 Donna Jacobs (MUSC) since 2011-2012, and particularly over the past Lindsay Johnston (IGI Global) two years, that has caused high anxiety among VP, Market Development, ProQuest Books Myer Kutz (Myer Kutz Associates, Inc.) publishers and is causing many to reconsider by Rebecca Seger and Lenny Allen — It’s Tom Leonhardt just easier to dip into something you can cut Rick Lugg (SCS / OCLC) the models in which they had agreed to partic- ipate.