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Challenges

   Trade  Higher Ed  Reference  STM
 DRM
  • Providing DRM protection without putting in place too many barriers for the consumer
  • Moving files between devices
  • Providing DRM protection without putting in place too many barriers for the consumer
  • DRM not necessary
  • DRM not necessary
 Accessibility
  • Online accessibility standards apply for K-12 publishers
  • Increasing target of government regulation
  • Online accessibility standards apply
  • Online accessibility standards apply
 Pricing
  • Wide disparity in industry
  • Publishers setting digital list price based on most recent print edition
  • Pricing versus print edition
 
  • Collection pricing for smaller institutions and companies
 Piracy
  • Not a large concern
  • Key concern
  • Not a large concern
  •  Some concern
 Economic Issues
   
  • Falling library funding
  • Open web versus library access
  •  Competing for library budget
  • Falling library budget
  • Open-access movement
 Standardization
  • Move to EPUB
   
  • Move to EPUB
 Identifiers
  • Identifier per format or per title?
  • Sub-book identification approach (DOI?)
 
  • Sub-book identification approach (DOI?) 
  • MARC records required
 Competition  
  • OpenSource textbooks
 
 Globalization
  • Enforcing selling territory restrictions
  • Local pricing
  • Local pricing
  • Locally relevant editions
  • Creating locally relevant editions
  •  Translating platforms into language of major and new markets