DEA Mediagroup News

Nei giorni 11 e 12 marzo prossimi si terrà a Milano, presso il Palazzo delle Stelline, l’annuale appuntamento di Bibliostar, in contemporanea al convegno organizzato da Biblioteche oggi
La DEA Mediagroup SpA sarà tra gli espositori (stand A 12 piano terra) e vi invita a partecipare agli eventi organizzati in occasione di tale manifestazione il giovedì 11 marzo, presso la SALA CAVALIERE – Primo Piano

Ore 10.00 – 12.30 – Evento DEA / Ovid Wolters Kluwer

• Le Risorse e la Tecnologia Ovid al servizio della Comunità Scientifica
  Relatori: Antonio Tronchin (Regional Manager Ovid WK) e Paola Piretta (Sales & Marketing Director DEA Mediagroup SpA)
  Nel corso dell’incontro, verrà presentata la nuova piattaforma OvidSP 3.0 con particolare attenzione alle nuove funzionalità studiate per il mercato accademico quali, ad esempio: “My Project” e “ Psychology Lexicon”.
  Inoltre saranno illustrati alcuni dei più recenti prodotti in ambito Biomedico, tra cui: Primal Pictures, Clin-eguide, eBooks, Nursing@Ovid.

ore 12.30 – 13.30 – Evento DEA Mediagroup SpA – deastore.com

• DEA Mediagroup & Deastore.com: la grande piattaforma per gli e-book
  Relatori: Fabrizio Ligi (Amministratore Delegato DEA Mediagroup SpA) e Paola Di Giampaolo (Direttore redazione Deastore.com)

ore 14.30 – 17.00 – Evento DEA/ProQuest

• ProQuest per la razionalizzazione delle risorse nella biblioteca digitale
  • ore 14.30 – La collaborazione DEA/ProQuest a favore delle Biblioteche in periodo di crisi
    Relatore Fabrizio Ligi Amministratore (Delegato DEA Mediagroup Spa)
  • ore 15.00 – BiblioSan e ProQuest: incontro alle esigenze dell’utenza medica
    Relatore Franco Toni (Istituto Superiore di Sanità Roma
  • ore 15.30 – ProQuest Central (2010 CODiE Award SIIA New York) risorsa chiave per ogni tipo di ricerca
    Relatore Enrico Pardini (DEA-ProQuest BU) e Alisia Poggio (DEA-ProQuest BU)
  • ore 16.15 – La nuova piattaforma ProQuest: strumento di ricerca unico per tre grandi tradizioni
    Relatore Yannis Gkanatsios (ProQuest Area Sales Manager, Mediterranean)

The world’s biggest publishers will follow Macmillan US’ lead in demanding changes to how Amazon sells and prices e-books, after what was described by one senior UK publishing executive as a “very significant week and genuinely¬ a very good week for book publishers, authors and readers”.
Hachette USA was the first to declare its hand after last week’s move by Macmillan US, with its chief executive David Young writing to agents on Thursday (4th February) that it was “willing to accept a lower return for e-book sales” in return for control over the “value of its product”, namely pricing.
And a well placed source in the UK indicated that others would follow, prompted by last week’s launch of the iBook Store on Apple’s new iPad: “I think Apple’s iPad is a big opportunity for the market to sell e-books at sensible prices to a growing market.
And it creates some competition to the Amazon channel and the Amazon platform, and competition is healthy.”
Earlier this week Amazon said it would accept Macmillan’s demand for new terms for the sale of its e-books in the US, following a stand-off in which Macmillan US titles were removed from direct sale on the Amazon.com site.
However, Amazon.com has still not enabled the “Buy” button on Macmillan titles such as Wolf Hall, though Macmillan chief John Sargent sent a second letter to agents this week indicating that a deal was close.
Other publishers have also hinted that they will follow Macmillan’s lead, with News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch this week indicating that he wanted to renegotiate the current deal with Amazon for HarperCollins titles.
Murdoch said Amazon.com’s $9.99 standard e-book price “really de¬values books and it hurts all the retailers of the hardcover books”.
Trade observers speculate that other iPad launch partners Simon & Schuster, and Penguin are also likely to follow Macmillan, and that any changes to trading terms in the US market will inevitably later translate to the UK.
The launch of the iPad and Macmillan’s dispute with Amazon come at a time when publishers are having to use different sales models when they deal with Apple and Amazon. Publishers sell to Amazon resale, with Amazon determining the price to consumers, while Apple works on an agency model, with e-books sold at the publisher’s price while Apple takes a commission.
As one insider put it: “Publishers have lost control over pricing with the Amazon model, as Amazon can [afford to] sell e-books at a loss.
The problem is that both Amazon and Apple would want to match each other’s price, and as pricing goes down the model blows up.
The only solution is to move everybody onto the same model.”
UK publishers are currently tight-lipped about their relations with Apple, but it is believed that they have not yet begun detailed negotiations over the launch of the iPad in the UK. Apple’s website now states that the iPad will be shipping to the UK in late March, but the iBookStore will not be available in the UK from launch.

The Bookseller- 08.02.10 | Benedicte Page

Oxford University Press has given its dictionaries a digital boost, offering individual customers and institutions an additional online package with any purchase from its 40-strong range.
Oxford Dictionaries Online and Oxford Language Dictionaries Online will be available from June.
Access will be the same regardless of which version of the print dictionary is bought, but cheaper editions will offer a shorter subscription time.
The dictionaries are divided into three-month, six-month or 12-month packages according to the price of the print dictionary.
For example, the English dictionaries are divided into £4.50–£7.99, £8.99–£9.99 and £12.99–£39.99 banding.
There will be no change to the current cover prices, but users will be “invited” to extend their subscription when it nears the end.
Online subscription costs £40 a year but “significant” discounts will be offered for renewals.
Each book will carry a code that enables the user to register and access the site, and entries will be updated every quarter.
Judy Pearsall, senior publishing manager for dictionaries, said the offer would compete against the free online reference sites.
She said: “The really important thing to remember is that these are not just dictionaries online—it’s all the language resources you will ever need, so it includes a ¬dictionary, thesaurus, usage information, grammar and spelling, writing resources and a word puzzle zone.
It’s a total service that fulfils all your language needs in one place.”
Catherine Neilan
The Bookseller- February 2010