www.idrc.ca e-book publishing at idrc bill carman publisher/senior communications advisor 31 january...
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www.idrc.ca
E-Book Publishingat IDRC
Bill Carman
Publisher/Senior Communications Advisor
31 January 2007
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www.idrc.ca
Outline
What is IDRC?
Why do we publish and for whom?
What do we publish and how?
E-book publishing and distribution
www.idrc.ca/books
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www.idrc.ca
What is IDRC?
A Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970
Supports Southern researchers to enable them to find practical, long-term solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems
Our Mission: Empowerment through Knowledge
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www.idrc.ca
IDRC Offices
Ottawa
Montevideo
Dakar
Nairobi
Singapore
CairoNew Delhi
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Four Program Areas
Environment and Natural Resource Management
Information and Communication Technologies for Development
Innovation, Policy, and Science
Social and Economic Policy
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Example: TEHIP
Funded in partnership with CIDA
Reduced child mortality in two districts of Tanzania by almost 50%
Now being scaled up in other regions in Africa
Fixing Health Systems (www.idrc.ca/tehip)
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Publishing since 1970
1500 books published for a global audience of
Decision-makers and policy advisors
Researchers, academics, and students
Development professionals
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Our Current Approach
Copublication in English, French, and Spanish
Electronic rights: IDRC / Print rights: copublisher
License foreign language editions
Earthscan, Economica, Plaza y Valdés…
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Print vs Electronic
Continuing demand for print, but…
Print distribution to developing world is costly and unreliable
For research: if it is not online, it is invisible
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Decision: Electronic
Continued print fulfillment by copublisher
IDRC focus on e-content
Bottom line: maximum dissemination, impact on development, public accountability
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First Steps
1995: first “web book”
Free HTML increased demand for print edition
All IDRC copublications are now available in free HTML format from our website
Print versions may be ordered from our copublisher
www.idrc.ca/books
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Free and For Sale?
Frankfurt Book Fair 2002: NetLibrary
Negligible overlap between audiences
Win-win: increased dissemination for IDRC, new products for NetLibrary
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The Process, and Growth
PDF to XML conversion
XML and metadata to NetLibrary via FTP
Ebrary, Ebooks.com, Canadian Electronic Library, Overdrive.com, MyiLibrary
Google Book Search
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Digital Asset Management
codeMantra’s Collection Point
Conversion services, metadata management
Web interface and link to Distribution Channels
Capacity to add more Distribution Channels as needed
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Distribution on CD
IDRC 2006: bilingual, annual CD
Free distribution to developing countries, either by mail or in person
Two-disk set: one disk contains 101 XML e-books
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E-Books: The Future
Journals, newspapers, dictionaries, encyclopedias, cookbooks, phone book, reference books?
Readership of e-Globe and Mail > print edition
Expanding Internet connectivity in developing world: new generation of e-book users?
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E-Books: The Future
Latin American traffic on Google Book Search
E-book sales to libraries and institutions in developing countries
Open Access: IDRC Institutional Repository to launch in March 2007
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Contact IDRC Publishing
Bill CarmanPublisherInternational Development Research CentrePO Box 8500Ottawa, ON, Canada K1G [email protected]/books