As a campaign fighting for the issues of knowledge equity and equality of access to information, #EBookSOS is as concerned as many others in the sector about the awarding of the 2024 World Library and Information Congress to Dubai. With a long track record of human rights abuses and legal discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals, women, ethnic minorities, migrant workers, trade unionists and others, it is difficlt to see how such a choice of venue squares with the values of both IFLA and the library sector as a whole.

https://academicebookinvestigation.org/2023/06/27/ifla-world-library-and-information-congress-2024-dubai/

mir ist jetzt auch mal ein fall von #ebooksos über den weg gelaufen:
"Language in Culture: Lectures on the Social Semiotics of Language" von michael silverstein – https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009198813 – kostet als "eTextBook" 1.440 GBP (!) pro jahr (!!!). 😠

The Publisher Playbook: A Brief History of the #Publishing Industry’s Obstruction of the Library Mission ⤵️

https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37374618

#libraries #ebookSOS

https://chng.it/4CgnmP4yRK

eBook SOS - Improving access to digital resources for students!

#ebooks #ebookSOS #universities #publishing #academicpublishing #fairpricing

Students at the University of Worcester (UK) have launched an #EBookSOS petition calling for the fair pricing of ebooks. The students ask that people support their efforts to "ensure all students have access to the essential digital resources required for their studies and success"

https://www.change.org/p/ebook-sos-improving-access-to-digital-resources-for-students

Collaborative models for #OA book publishers (Version 2.0) https://zenodo.org/record/7780754#.ZGXmfHY68VF

#openaccess #OPERAS #publishing #ebooks #ebookSOS

cc @Bernardpo @jdfr

#Publishing industry announces record profits as European #library associations call for action on #ebooks

https://academicebookinvestigation.org/2023/05/04/publishing-industry-announces-record-profits-as-european-library-associations-call-for-action-on-ebooks/

#libraries #ebookSOS

cc @Bernardpo @jdfr

RT @KR21org
🧶/1 💭 How do we enable the libraries & archives of the future❓

Join this international conference by our partner @centrumcyfrowe to discover what we need to get right

📆 Mon 22 May
📌 Kraków 🇵🇱 & 🌐 Online
🔗 https://centrumcyfrowe.pl/librariesandarchives/

#copyright #eBooks #eBookSOS

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RT @Hohoyanna
Hey, @Wired you really need an editorial review regarding the inclusion of the AG claim that publisher revenues are 'extraordinarily' depleted in the face of rising ebook sales.
It simply is not true.
@CMAgovUK #ebooksos.
Stockholm syndrome if ever I saw it https://twitter.com/dombroadhurst/status/1643862053021466629
https://twitter.com/Hohoyanna/status/1643873869327900680

RT @cathalmccauley
From Canada:
“These e-resources are really expensive, especially when they’re purchased on … library-by-library basis..”

“Ebooks cost 3 times as much as print books” (this is conservative based on our data)

“E-resources are extremely expensive, per copy of ebook,” #ebookSOS https://twitter.com/library_futures/status/1636065806709555209

That's disappointing #elending #ebooks 🇫🇮
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RT @Knowledge21org
Finnish Government's Consultation on eBooks: The Curious Case of Cherry Picking and Mistaking Lending for Renting
Spoiler: Not good for patrons, authors, libraries or taxpayers.
#eBookSOS 🇫🇮 🍒
@kirjastoseura @Juhamanninen @HeidiHautala @anna_tuomikoski

https://www.knowledgerights21.org/the-finnish-governments-consultation-on-ebooks-the-curious-case-of-cherry-picking-…
https://twitter.com/Knowledge21org/status/1625756545685286912

RT @cathalmccauley
Large international Ebook publishers have adapted their clothing to store the wads of cash they’re raking in from #libraries and elsewhere #ebookSOS https://twitter.com/dawbell/status/1624468762521993222

Happy and proud to have collaborated with the folks at @Auths_Alliance@twitter.com last year on #ebookSOS

RT @Auths_Alliance@twitter.com

We are pleased to share our annual report for 2022, where you can read all about the work we did last year to support #authors who write to be read! https://www.authorsalliance.org/2023/01/26/authors-alliance-annual-report-2022-in-review/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Auths_Alliance/status/1618661564520992768

@drjacannon @actualham Where in the world do they think we are "bloated"? I, too, would like a reasonable way to subscribe to a database without ridiculous licensing shenanigans, but that is something the libraries need HELP to achieve (like with #EBookSOS). Sigh.

Check out @Knowledge21org@twitter.com's blog post below and signal boost! #ebookSOS

RT @Knowledge21org@twitter.com

Lights💡!
Camera 🎥 !
Action 🗣!

We have created 2 short © videos to explain:
- How contracts and digital locks remove © exceptions
- The benefits of introducing flexible exceptions in Europe

If you want them translated pls let us know

https://www.knowledgerights21.org/news-story/making-copyright-accessible-kr21-launches-video-primers-exploring-how-licences-and-inflexible-exceptions-undermine-the-balance-at-the-heart-of-copyright-law/

Check them out!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Knowledge21org/status/1618162412875845632

Excellent opinion piece by @tweeterbarr@twitter.com on the need and drive for ethical acquisition processes in university libraries. #ebookSOS

https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.600/

In news that surprises nobody...

If students need textbooks, can't afford to buy them and the library can't provide them either, because they're not available to libraries to licence or crazy expensive, what other outcome is there? #ebookSOS

https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-warns-of-a-problematic-textbook-piracy-culture-among-students-230106/

@hye @erinnacland @eikofried @academicchatter it is worth also getting any #AcademicLibrarian groups you are aware of formally involved. They are often leading on other areas and putting pressure on publishers. (For example, the #EBookSOS campaign (https://academicebookinvestigation.org) @heroicendeavour is here and is one of the people involved in that one!

RT @heroicendeavour@twitter.com

I'm writing an editorial about librarians, activism, #ebookSOS and about being more outspoken as individuals and as a sector - would it be inappropriate to use my self-description from the @UKLibrariesNAG@twitter.com #dataSOS webinar as 'arsey and concerned' as the title?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/heroicendeavour/status/1603026626006188032

£32,684.94 for 12 months’ access to a law ebook package (and that’s with the 45% discount). #ebooksos