Joe Karaganis of the American Assembly at Columbia University presents at BISG's Making Information Pay for Higher Ed Publishing conference, February 7, 2013.

1. Now welcoming
Joe Karaganis
Vice President,
American Assembly, Columbia University
“The International Playing Field: Exploring Opportunities
Overseas (...and up North)”
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2. Shadow
Libraries

3. http://piracy.americanassembly.org

4. Copy
Culture

10. The Ecology
of Access

11. The Ecology of Access
Publishers Library Open Access
Copy Shop
Digital Copying

12. Top Level Pirate
Libraries
Digital Copying
Organized
Networks within
Universities
Classroom
Copying

13. Top-Level
Shadow Libraries

14. Library.nu
 shut down in February 2012 by publishers)
 963,454 documents (note: 1 document does
not equal 1 book!)
Pbooks (not the real name)
 1.5 million documents (at the time of analysis.
Now >2M)

15. Library.nu subject matter
1st, 2nd and 3rd level Dewey decimal categories.
st nd rd
1 level DCC categories % 2 level DCC categories % 3 level DCC categories %
Social sciences 26.7% Medicine & health 9.9 American fiction in English 5.1
Technology 18.7% Computer science, information & general 7.4 Diseases 4.7
Natural Sciences and 12.8% works Computer programming, programs & 3.7
Mathematics Economics 6.8 data
Literature & rhetoric 11.8% Social sciences 6.2 Applied physics 2.4
American literature in English 5.9 English fiction 1.9
Computer science, information 8.4%
Engineering & allied operations 5.2 Culture & institutions 1.8
& general works
Mathematics 5.0
Production 1.8
Social problems & services; associations 3.7
History & geography 6.1% Financial economics 1.7
Political science 3.1
The arts; fine & decorative arts 5.2% Special computer methods 1.6
English & Old English literatures 3.0
Education 3.0 Social groups 1.6
Religion 4.1% Law 2.6 Data processing & computer science 1.5
Philosophy & psychology 3.7% Recreational & performing arts 2.4 Social welfare problems & services 1.5
Physics 2.3 Other social problems & services 1.2
Language 2.6% Life sciences; biology 2.1 Political science 1.2
Total 100.0% History of Europe 1.9 Physics 1.1
History of North America 1.7 Pharmacology & therapeutics 1.1
Chemistry & allied sciences 1.3 Mathematics 1.1
Other religions 1.2 Engineering & allied operations 1.0
Literature & rhetoric 1.2 Analysis 1.0
Geography & travel 1.1 Schools & their activities; special 1.0
Agriculture & related technologies 1.0 education
Chemical engineering 1.0 Economics 1.0
Other 21.0 Other 60.8

16. Publishers in Library.nu
Publisher No. of titles %
Springer 21894 5.5
Cambridge University Press 20624 5.2
Routledge 19683 5.0
Oxford University Press 16775 4.2
Wiley 16495 4.2
NetLibrary 9708 2.5
Harper & Row 8678 2.2
Palgrave Macmillan 7479 1.9
McGrawHill 5817 1.5
Pergamon Press 5172 1.3
Academic Press 4906 1.2
SpringerVerlag 4690 1.2
CRC Press 4285 1.1
University of California 4111 1.0
World Scientific 2651 .7
Air University Press 2451 .6
Elsevier 2443 .6
Other 237091 60.0

17. Is there a commercially
available digital version 33%
(buy or rent)?
Is there a digital version
available via one or more
e-libraries?
74%
How many are available
through any legal channel?
(print/e/used)
74%

18. Pbooks: % of Downloads by Country
country
UNITED STATES 14.88%
GERMANY 7.53%
INDIA 7.27%
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF 6.63%
RUSSIAN FEDERATION 6.46%
INDONESIA 4.89%
FRANCE 3.59%
UNITED KINGDOM 3.47%
EGYPT 3.09% About 750K English-
CHINA 2.90%
NETHERLANDS 2.86% language downloads in a
CANADA
ITALY
2.28%
2.12%
3 month period
CZECH REPUBLIC 1.99%
SWEDEN 1.76%
SPAIN 1.71%
POLAND 1.64%
TURKEY 1.60%
UKRAINE 1.58%
GREECE 1.42%
ALGERIA 1.27%
AUSTRALIA 1.11%
ROMANIA 1.06%

19. Most Downloaded from the US:
1. Statistics and Probability for Engineering Applications, William DeCoursey
2. Distributive Justice: A Constructive Critique of the Utilitarian Theory of Distribution,
Nicholas Rescher
3. A Million Little Pieces, James Frey
4. The Logic of Decision and Action, Nicholas Rescher (ed.)
5. A Child Called 'It,' Pelzer Dave
6. Cohomology of Number Fields, Jürgen Neukirch, Alexander Schmidt, Kay Wingberg
7. Data structures and problem solving using C++, Weiss M.A.
8. Exploring Matthew's Gospels (Personality Type and Scripture Series), Leslie J.
Francis, P. W. Atkins
9. The Riemann Zeta-Function, A. A. Karatsuba, S. M. Voronin
10. Mathematics for Engineers, George Fische, Gerard Hebuterne
11. On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction, Brian Boyd

20. Most Downloaded from Iran:
1. Encyclopedia of Religion. Lindsay Jones
2. Handbook of Philosophical Logic. Dov M. Gabbay, F. Guenthner
3. Fundamentals of Photonics Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edgar F. Borgatta, Rhonda J.
V. Montgomery
4. Houben-Weyl Methods of Organic Chemistry. J.C Tatlow
5. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. G.R. Gisler (ed.)
6. Theory of Functionals and of Integral and Integro-Differential Equations. Vito
Volterra
7. Response Surface Methodology and Related Topics. Andre I. Khuri
8. Dictionary of American History, 3rd Edition (10 Volumes) Stanley I. Kutler
9. Levine's Guide to SPSS for Analysis of Variance. Gustav Levine, Sanford L. Braver,
David P. Mackinnon, Melanie C. Page,
10. Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics. Walter Greiner, Ludwig Neise, Horst
Stöcker, D. Rischke

21. Most Downloaded from India:
1. Organic Syntheses An annual publication of satisfactory methods
2. The GALE Encyclopedia of Science. K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner
3. Encyclopedia of Religion. Lindsay Jones
4. Encyclopedia of Sociology. Edgar F. Borgatta, Rhonda J. V. Montgomery
5. Comprehensive Organic Synthesis, 9 volume set B. M. Trost, I. Fleming
6. Comprehensive Clinical Psychology Bellack A.S., Hersen M. (eds.)
7. 1635-The Cannon Law ARC. Eric Flint
8. Statistics and Probability for Engineering Applications William DeCoursey
9. Berkshire Encyclopedia Of World History William H. McNeill
10. Computer Networks. Andrew S. Tanenbaum
11. Collected Mathematical Papers. Cayley A.
12. Techniques in Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery
13. Facts On File Encyclopedia Of Health And Medicine James Chambers, Lee Ann
Chearney, Deborah S. Romaine, Candace B., Ph.D. Levy, Cathy S. Jewell IN INDIA

22. Conclusions from Library.nu and PBooks
1. These sites facilitate flows of scientific knowledge outside
the western university, especially from developed to
developing countries.
2. Heavily tilted toward materials that are not available
commercially in digital form or at reasonable prices in
developing countries
3. US universities barely register on these lists.
4. Pbooks has no commercial model.

23. Field Work:
A Top Indian Law School
A Major US University

24. Indian Law School
• Roughly half of the students rely on photocopying
for 60 % or more of their study materials
• 50% of students had a personal library of ebooks
• Of those, only 10-15 % of them had ever purchased
one.

25. US top tier university

29. Looking
Ahead

30. First Sale

31. Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Capitol Records v. ReDigi
UsedSoft vs. Oracle

32. O’Brien, Gasser, and Palfrey (2012)

33. Q&A PANEL:
The Impact of What
College Students Think
MODERATER
MAUREEN McMAHON
Kaplan Publishing
PANELISTS
LEN VLAHOS JOE KARAGANIS CARL KULO
BISG Columbia University Bowker Market Research
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