1. What Changes with Mobile? Everything and Nothing

2. What doesnt change? The User User needs vs. user context Content (versus format and display) Questions and improving the quality of questions Creativity and human progress Stability = fossilization 3. What changes with mobile? The Ecosystem Communication devices move increasingly from feature phones to smartphones Personal computing moves to a hybrid environment of laptops and tablets (plus a few power desktop anchors) In libraries the dominant mobile task environments are based on answers, communities and e-learning 4. Content duh. Format and display considerations The reading experience (PDF, App, eBook, Wall, Tweets, etc.) The learning experience The entertainment experience Streaming versus downloading Instant and live (Bloggie) 5. Standards Apps versus HTML5 XML ePub, Kindle Book, PDF, HTML5, etc. Tablets versus e-Reader experience (human biology does not change quickly) 6. Concept of Place Geo-IP Google Maps integration Sign in and Authentication Rights and permissions management Concept of Place tied to User Geo-location 7. Identity Personal phone versus home/family phone Consequences for library cardholder management Are librarians and library value systems in conflict with the new ecosystem and market values? Will adults continue to respect and trust library straitjackets? 8. Frictionless-ness Commerce Square (from Jack Dorsey founder of Twitter) Embedded e-commerce ecology in smartphones Death of QR codes $5/gallon gasoline . . . and the library value proposition of free 9. Frictionless-ness commerce In App purchasing and/or seamless buying? Commerce in a virtual goods space (start with $billion market for gaming goods and extend to other goods Other goods are a parallel commercial and retail environment in goods relevant to libraries e-books, streaming media, audio like music MP3, lessons and podcasts, articles, learning objects, games, tests, etc. 10. Opportunity 1. Search personalization (e.g. Google) 2. Push personalization (e.g. Facebook) 3. Integration of sound, video, text, mail, communication, soci al and business cohorts 4. Advertising 5. Major changes in usability: Voice response like Siri, gesture interfaces, face recognition, geo-restrictions, sentiment search, semantic, linked data, data mining, etc. 11. Business Models Pressure on consumer and institutional models as purchasing agent Pressure on retailer model Subscription models for e-Content (like Netflix for entertainment but extended to e-books from Amazon, 24Symbols or Bookish, etc.) On demand and micropayment models Author embedded models like Pottermore Books as apps or as vehicles for ads & purchases 12. Google (Android partners, Motorola acquisition) Microsoft (Skype acquisition) Facebook (post-IPO) eBay Apple (iTunes and App Store) Twitter (& Square) Research in Motion (as an acquisition target?) Amazon Open Source or any company on the fringesthat is disruptive as a new player or anacquisition target) 13. Living in a parallel world Serving a hybrid world Changing their strategic planning models to add more stretch into the environmental scans, creative thinking and imagination Bringing staff and profession along the curve 12 steps . . . 14. Differential Adoption The generations are adopting at muchdifferent rates and for different purposes Boomers are the primary adopters of e-reading Adult women are a major market for e-gaming Students are resisting e-textbook adoption for now. Tablet adoption (ownership) doubled overChristmas 2011 (Pew) 15. On the sidelines of a war Watching the emerging commercial battlefield (foundation vs. application) Android, RIM, Windows, Apple iOS, other . . . The end of the flip phone or feature phone At the same time as the end of CD and DVD and more e-Books and e-content formats Dealing with new potential walled gardens for e-content (app stores, e-formats, single device stuff, etc.) 16. Differential Behaviors The generations have very different attitudestowards mobile: Privacy Ownership and access rights Information ethics e-Commerce Reading Forced adoption Usage tracking Government involvement 17. Digital Filtering Are we comfortable with content filtering and usefiltering based on: age, race, gender, location? policy (criticism, definition of porn)? the device owner or app store rules and policies? adjustment of search algorithm by personal history, behavior timeline, and user profile? Whither freedom to read? Ownership, rental, options? Balance in the use, read and purchase ecology 18. Address our internal struggles with: Fiction versus non-fiction content Books versus databases Marketing and promotion ecosystem of content Historical content (e.g. PDF repositories) Printing and end user retro-conversions (hardcopy, 3D,CD, DVD, USB, etc. - OMG) Role of QR Codes, Barcodes, RFID, etc. (plane tickets) Mobile will be the dominant personal technology butnever the sole form factor Being a valid relationship in the hybrid ecology ... 19. Playing with vendor apps Developing Library apps learn by doing Most good content vendors have first or second generation apps to play with and many are free Many ILS vendors too including ILS enhancement layers like Bibliocommons and LibraryThing. Its too early to form anything more than an opinion and those who dont play arent learning fast enough. Use a smartphone. 20. Pilot and experiment with mobile social cohorts in the library Clubs Classes (mobile training or extended learning) Reading cohorts and book clubs Associations Fundraising Meetings Teams (business or sport) 21. Actively lobby and educate to ensure that the emerging mobile ecosystem supports the values and principles of librarianship for balance in the rights of end users for use, access, learning and research. Support vendors and laws to be as agnostic as possible by ensuring that, as afar as possible your services and content offerings support the widest range of devices, formats, browsers, and platforms. 22. Design for frictionless access using such opportunities as geo-IP and mobile ready websites Test everything in all browsers mobile or not. Invest in usability research and testing and learn from it and share your learning. Watch key developments in major publishing spaces kiddy lit, textbooks, e- learning, fiction, etc. 23. This is an evolution not a revolution The REAL revolution was the Internet and the Web. The hybrid ecology is winning in the near term for operating systems and content formats. This is good since competition drives innovation. Engage in critical thinking not raw criticism. Be constructive. Critical thinking is not part of dogma or religious fervor or fan boy behavior. 24. This is an evolution not a revolution Perfectionism will not move us forward at this juncture. Really understand the digital divide and remove your economic and social class blinkers Get over library obsession with statistics and comprehensiveness. Get excellent at real measurements, sampling and understanding impact and satisfaction. (Analytics, Foresee, Pew) 25. This is an evolution not a revolution We need to revisit the concept of preservation, archives, repositories, and conservation. Check out new publishing models like Flipboard. Watch for emerging book enhancements and other features that will challenge library metadata, selection policies, and collection development. 26. Broadband You must clearly understand the latest US FCCWhitespace Broadband Decision THIS ISTRANSFORMATIONAL and going global Net neutrality, kill switches . . . Local wired, mobile access everywhere tothe home and workplace on a personal basis Geo-awareness: GIS, GPS, GEO-IP, etc. Wireless as a business strategy (Starbucks) Mobile dominates the largest generation 27. Speaking of e- Books... 28. Borders Kobo, B&N Nook, Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, Sony, etc. . . . 29. GBS 30. Context Information and Knowledge-based economy Globalization Canada is a leading education economy Stress on core markets (US) Changing knowledge about current crop ofstudents (genome, eye tracking, gaming, IQ,ICT and social behaviours, etc.) Information ethics and copyright 31. Books Reception of Reading and Experience Fiction paper, e-paper Non-Fiction Articles - disaggregation Media physical vs. streaming Learning Objects Stories vs. Pedagogy 32. Technology Context Cloud (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) Laptops and Tablets Mobility / Smartphones Bandwidth (Wired, WiFi, Whitespace) Learning Management Systems Streaming video and audio vs. download HTML5 and Apps the battle Advertising auction models and product New(ish) Players (Amazon, Apple, G, B&N, Unis,states/provinces/nations) 33. The BASICS Containers for Pedagogy Created by Teams (e.g. 40,000 authors a yearfor Cengage alone) (yes thats a lot of lawyers) Copyright and complicated layering of millionsof rights (creators - pictures, graphics, video,tests, text, documents, etc.) Serious Lawsuits: Feist, Texaco, LSUC, Tasini,NatGeo, Authors Guild, GBS, etc. Complex extension opportunities (links toarticles, databases, library assistance, etc.) 34. Textbook Challenges Format Agnosticism Browsers: IE, Chrome, Firefox, Safari Devices: Macintosh, PC Desktops & Laptops Mobile: Laptops, Tablets (iPad, Fire, etc.) Mobile: Smartphones (iPhone, Blackberry,Android, Windows, etc.) Container: PDF, ePub, .mobi, Kindle, etc. Learning Management System: Blackboard /WebCT, D2L, Moodle, Sakai, etc. Purchasing (Amazon, B&N, Chegg, CengageBrain,Apple Store, University Textbook Store, etc.) 35. Should we tie students and professors to a specific and proprietary device,operating system, browser, or LMS? 36. What is the priority? Price, Cost, Value, ROI Managing or Mandating the Adoption Curve Learning and Progress Societal Impact = 17%, 40%, 70%? 37. Death of the Textbook? Shallow pool innovation e-copies, really? Open Access Textbooks? Coursepacks and e-coursepacks? Apple? Google? Pearson, McGraw-Hill, Cengage Etc. 38. What is Changing?1. Componentization of pedagogy2. Enhanced textbooks (tests, tracking, video, etc.)3. Advanced e-learning4. Ability to archive5. The purchaser matrix (individual student, class, institutions, state/province/country)6. Textbook boundaries (library links first) 39. Pricing Models Buy the print copy Buy the exact electronic copy of the print Buy both (bundling) Rent the print or e-copy for a specified period Create custom coursepacks in print or e-copy Buy at the course level included in fee Buy at the institution / enterprise level Buy at the state/province level Espresso Book Machines Pay-per-use, micro-payments, Square andphones 40. This era will see a FundamentalReimagining the TextbookFor the present there will be those who resist and the resisters will be themajority. 41. Can we frame the e-book issue sothat it can be addressed rationally? 42. Books 43. Fiction 44. Non-Fiction 45. E-Learning 46. Be More Open to the Users Paths - Filtering 47. What Would You Attempt IfYou Knew You Would Not Fail? 48. A Third Path 49. There are no knights onhorses in technology. 50. The VAST majority of library use is virtual and is dwarfed by all information use 51. Reading trumps print books . . . 52. 7 Learning Styles 53. Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLAVP strategic partnerships and markets Cengage Learning (Gale) Cel: 416-669-4855stephen.abram@cengage.comStephens Lighthouse Blog http://stephenslighthouse.com Facebook, Pinterest: Stephen AbramLinkedIn / Plaxo: Stephen Abram Twitter: @sabram SlideShare: StephenAbram1