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e. Books ng Bayan: The STII Experience in CD Publishing by Cymbeline R. Villamin 1
Magandang umaga…. 2
Structure of Presentation Global Trends in e. Publishing STII in the Context of e. Publishing 3
Global Trends in e. Publishing Google Project since December 2004 Project Gutenberg since 1971 World e. Library since 1996 WSIS Geneva 2003 Copyright Myths Berne Convention of 1886 Current Technologies against Content Piracy 4
Google Project Since December 2004 until 2010 Digitizing 4. 5 billion pages of some 15 million books from the collection of university libraries in Harvard, Michigan, Stanford in US, New York Public Library, and Oxford in UK 5
Project Gutenberg Michael Hart invented ebooks in 1971 and he made easily available to everyone intellectual works in the public domain, through his Project Gutenberg. Over 15, 000 plain vanilla etexts are available online for free in a format readable by both humans and machines. 6
WSIS Geneva 2003 Section B 3, Paragraph 25 -- facilitating access to public domain information 7
Myths about Copyright Genius can only thrive if there is copyright. Without copyright, creators are deprived of substantial income. Copyright exists since ancient times. 8
Berne Convention of 1886 The mother of all copyright laws, created on 9 September 1886, through the initiative of French novelist and poet Victor Hugo. 9
Anti-Piracy Softwares for e. Books PDF Lox for PDF e. Books Web. Packer for HTML e. Books 10
STII in the Context of e. Publishing Science e. Books Project 2003 / Time. Line Contents Impact on Readers Lessons Learned Future Directions Recommendations 11
STII e. Books Milestones July 2004 - Ayala Foundation Inc. uploaded the contents of all STII e. Books into the servers of selected Youth Tech public high schools; 66 in Luzon and NCR, 40 in the Visayas, and 7 in Mindanao. 12
STII e. Books Milestones cont’d. Sept 2004 - Dr. Tom Murray of Lynchburg College in Virginia donated copies of Microsoft tutorials he authored and several original, licensed Microsoftwares. 13
STII e. Books Milestones cont’d. August 2005 - The STII e. Books 2005 Library Edition, an all-in-one CD was launched, priced at only P 80 exclusively for librarians and teachers. 14
STII e. Books Milestones cont’d. August 2005 - Original Microsoft Tutorials CDs by Dr. Tom Murray were donated to six schools. 15
Future Directions The Librarian as Research Coach Digitization of DOST original researches Protection of Scientists’ Intellectual Property Rights Adaption of the Creative Commons paradigm 16
Recommendations Study of the level of ICT literacy among Philippine publishers Promote availability of contentprotecting softwares Encourage paradigm shifting among Booksellers 17
Why e. Books? Cost effective Does not require large storage space Even the most obscure but talented writers can self-publish, resulting in the availability of a wider range of books for the reading public To supplement traditional learning with public reading kiosks in malls and parks 18
Personal Roadmap e. Books ng Bayan: Libre! Secret and Key for Sharing 19
Website and Email www. geocities. com/ebooks_ng_bayan@yahoo. com 20
Maraming salamat po…. 21
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