November 27, 2015

Moving Beyond the NetLibrary Legacy, EBSCO Reshapes Its Ebook Platform

Ken Breen

When EBSCO acquired NetLibrary from OCLC in March 2010, it obtained a fully formed ebook platform that already had a large collection of about 200,000 ebooks from 500 publishers available in 17,000 sites worldwide. The challenge was to smooth out this platform, now known as Ebooks on EBSCOhost, so that it could migrate to the EBSCO interface and there be remade.

Ebook Marketplace Q&A: Scott Wasinger, EBSCO Publishing

Scott Wasinger, EBSCO

The next big innovation to impact the ebook landscape should be broad availability of text books in electronic format once a business model is reached that publishers can be comfortable with. In the meantime, consolidation of eBook companies and increasing competition is driving innovations for better eBook products and services for libraries.
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