(Borrowed from NCSU)
- Portability between devices, with publishers and aggregator platforms using non-proprietary formats for their ebooks.
- Consistency of content across the print and electronic format and the incorporation of corresponding supplementary material sometimes available in the print version (i.e CDs, web access).
- Working jointly with publishers and aggregator platform vendors to develop standards for printing, copy/paste, and saving of ebook content.
- Quality Full-level MARC bibliographic records that meet current national cataloging standards and practice.
- The Interlibrary Loan process or comparable way to lend and borrow ebooks between libraries.
- Perpetual access to purchased and/or subscribed content.
- ADA compliance.
- COUNTER compliant usage statistics.
- Licensing terms which do not limit fair use and first sale doctrines under US copyright law. Adopting SERU as a standard for ebooks would ensure this.
- Simultaneous format availability of frontlist titles.
- Alerts that new books have been added to existing collections.
- Pricing models that are reasonable, flexible and reflect the broad needs of the library market. Restricting ebook access to subscription-only, bundled databases of "all or nothing" content is in direct conflict with reasonable, flexible pricing models.
- The ability to migrate purchased and/or subscribed content between platforms in the event of the end of life of a platform.
- The ability to coordinate discovery with third party services such as SFX.
- The ability to incorporate ebook search, discovery, access and purchase into existing workflows.