The DPC is adding another new report for its popular Technology Watch Report Series on the topc of 'Preserving E-Books'. The report - to be commissioned from Amy Kirchoff and Sheila Morrissey of Portico, will provide a guide to current developments, practical and emerging issues which organisations are facing in preserving eBooks. Issues to be addressed include: eBook ownership and licensing, copyright, Variant editions, maximising accessibility, packaging and partitioning eBooks, eBooks as networked content, formats for preservation, preserving scanned books, legal deposit, privacy and business models for sustainable preservation.
DPC Technology Watch Reports are specifically designed to meet the needs of our members. So members are invited to comment on a draft outline of this report before it is commissioned. Comments are welcome particular by the end of July 2013. A revised, finalised outline will be published in August 2013.
The draft outline is online at: http://www.dpconline.org/component/docs/doc_download/892-twrebooksoutlinedraftforcommentjuly2013 [PDF login required]