Learn about Total Boox during Amigos Exclusive Webinars
Check out Total Boox, a new ebook service for libraries. They offer approximately 100,000 titles from reputable publishers, such as Berlitz, Sourcebooks, O’Reilly and Workman. Libraries pay only for percentages read, so you can expand your collection and serve parts of your community you cannot now reach, while controlling your costs.
For several years, Brazoria County Library has been providing the Total Boox service to their patrons. This year, The Tocker Foundation began a pilot of Total Boox in 20 small Texas libraries. While patron privacy is respected, Total Boox collects detailed aggregate data about reading and now has enough data to see certain trends regarding patron usage and costs to libraries. This data is unique to Total Boox. Only their patented technology can collect reading data on this deep level. They have used this data to guide them in their own collection development work, and to develop a new, lower cost, pricing model for libraries. Two of the libraries involved in the pilot are San Jose Public Library and Palo Alto Public Library. They have both added the Total Boox MARC records to their catalogs, so Total Boox now has good data about patron usage in California libraries.
Join Peyton Stafford, vice president of Library Services, for an entertaining and informative discussion of Total Boox, libraries and ebooks.
Attendees will learn:
- What type of patron likes Total Boox, and how you can grow your patron base with Total Boox.
- What type of books patrons read when they have unlimited, instant access to a huge collection containing many titles that libraries would not normally collect. You will be surprised!
- How much providing a huge collection to every patron actually costs a library, when the library pays only for reading rather than for checkouts or access.
- How you can grow your patron base by taking the library out into the community with the Total Boox Free Reading Zone℠.
Total Boox is offering six webinars exclusively for Amigos members during August. To register for a webinar, click on one of the following links: