Digital formats and hence online libraries gained greater momentum and are witnessing an exponential rise owing to the rise of online learning and hence publishing requirements.

As a result, online libraries are motivated to digitise their collection of digital books (and enter into a monetizing mode where need be).

Online libraries ate the online websites which are dedicated to creating and preserving digital book collections (with the inclusion of audio-video materials). End users can gain access to these without having to make a purchase, unless it is made mandatory. eBook library software assists publishers to transform physical books into their digital counterparts which further enables them to distribute across geographical areas. Educational institutions and multiple stakeholders might attempt to secure the rights from the publishers and may obtain complete copyright of the content to access the reading material, subject to certain conditions.

Online libraries, in the recent past years, have been becoming more popular as rich digital content is predominantly available in open-access format, enabling to offer anytime and anywhere access at the convenience of the users thus improving the outreach of the publishers.

Schools, Colleges and Universities too are adapting to Online Learning methodologies and are also digitising their content via providing authorised access to their students/end users to ensure secured access to the content.

Publishers via digitising their content are going beyond educational institutions and are expanding their outreach and are offering ease of access to their users, expanding audiences beyond certain geographical boundaries and monetizing their content thus enabling them to generate more revenue.

Online libraries allow users to search and browse through a comprehensive online catalogue that includes digital textbooks, audio books and other digital content resources which can be enabled by publishers to monetize their content and start generating revenues. Search can be customised and narrowed to the possible extent and enable users to discover the titles, authors of digital books that they are interested in and can download instantly by leveraging digital technologies such as AI.

Digital Content can be monetized by users having to pay a subscription fee to gain access to the relevant interested content.

Here are a few ways to monetize digital content for Publishers (via going digital):

a) Subscription Fees:

Subscription fees are the most significant source of revenue. Access can further be derived to the online catalogue of digital books and audiobooks and many more by the digital publishers.

b) Service-based Fees:

By offering additional value-added services that greatly enhance the reader’s experience, content monetization can be one another avenue.

With the implementation of SaaS and adding a further initial setup fee for customised services, this can be made possible, apart from containing ongoing customer support, varied dashboards, analytics and analysis, as required by the users.

c) Monetize archive Content:

For users undertaking research work, archive content is very significant as historic data can be converted into up-to-date information, which can be taken up for further analysis and process, hence usage.

Digitising this sort of archived content (using eBook library software) can be made into use as a source of additional revenue.

d) From Extended Audiences:

Online libraries have the potential to extend their audience and expand the outreach beyond certain geographies. Users can access and buy subscriptions anytime anywhere across the globe. Publishers can also customise the collection to suit the audiences of various countries and offer universal and localised content to meet their expectations.

e) via Online Advertising:

Online Advertising avenue still remains a popular means to draw in new audiences across boundaries, although adblock is becoming increasingly common.

More readers will be attracted based on the ads being non-distractive, ads appearing on related pages, and are adjusted to what readers are interested in.

Conclusion:

With Content going digital, it’s imperative that physical assets and associated libraries too digitise to expand their horizons for digital publishers, which forms a revenue stream itself.

eBook library software comes handy as an aid in order to digitise the vast content repository where physical books can be transformed and maintained securely as digital collections.

Digital libraries are the need of the hour as:

-they protect original content and

-provides ease of access to online catalogues and other related resources online

Online libraries can increase their reach beyond restricted physical boundaries and form a basis to tap additional sources of revenue.

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