Modelos de negócios para e-books em bibliotecas universitárias

Abstract

The present research is based on the hypothesis that current e-book business models do not satisfactorily meet the criteria for managing the free circulation of books in Brazilian university libraries, while respecting the interests and needs of users. Faced with this issue, the objective was to investigate the digital book and its business models in the context of the Federal University of Bahia, addressing aspects about the publishing market, public policies that attend to the management of this artifact, and, finally, its management in the university libraries. The methodological approach is qualitative and quantitative, using the web-based questionnaire and the structured interview with the agents of the digital book value chain as methods of data collection. The partial results demonstrated a variable of our argument: the growth of the insertion of the digital book in university libraries. However, the business model of access to collections points to a new relationship between publisher, author and library with collections that are fluid and changeable.