http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/03/29/the-next-e-book-device-is-already-here/

From the standpoint of researching these terms for medical transcription, the abbreviations, acronyms, and lack of structured terminology make these very difficult to find.

But now vendors have come online–Atypon, Impelsys, Tirza, Pub2Web–which have enabled smaller publishers to digitally platform their content without having to build their own systems. (Note some of the big publishers originally sought to lease space on their systems to other publishers, but that created obvious conflicts of interest.

Libraries are going electronic because more publishers now have available neutral platforms that not only enable them to go digital at reasonable cost but were specifically designed with library licensing, data access and data linking (to library holdings) concerns addressed.

I was seeing the same thing at the meeting — a desire for synthesis in the unfilled layers bounding our current offerings. Whether these are taxonomic, semantic, social, authoring, citation, mobile solutions remains to be seen. But cut from the confines of current structures, the talent and creativity were apparent and unleashed. If only we could be the creative leaders we aspire to be!