screenshot aus dem verlinken katalogeintrag mit folgendem text: "Signatur: 3K 98051 Status: per Fernleihe an andere Bibliothek ausgeliehen, Ausleihbedingung: Infos sichtbar nach Anmeldung Standort: Fernleihbibliothek Aktive Fernleihen Materialart: Buch Notiz: Dieses Buch wurde in gedruckter Form gekauft, weil die Kosten für die elektronische Ausgabe nicht in einem angemessenen Verhältnis zu den Kosten für die gedruckte Ausgabe stehen."

bei einem kürzlich bestellten titel habe ich um die eintragung unserer #ebookSOS-notiz gebeten: "The Oxford Handbook of Expressivity" kostet gedruckt rund 263 € und elektronisch über 550 € […]

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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

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… 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

#skybrarians #academicsky #ebooksSOS #ebookSOS

Dr Paul Ayris | LERU Dr Paul Ayris LERU UCL Open Science

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.