[Eril-l] Proquest ebook central full download problem on smartphones

[Harper, Cynthia]

That makes sense. I was thinking there was a reason it was set that way.  In our case, it was a default setting from Proquest, because the message was set to "Virginia Theological Seminary wants you to open this book first before downloading", and I would think when I saw that message "WE didn't 'want' that, PROQUEST did."  But I didn't contact tech support on how to avoid that message.  Also, that message used to appear way to the right on smartphones so that you wouldn't see it if you didn't know it was there.  It's much more usable now without that message.  Am I being overly suspicious of capitalism when I suspect they chose not to fix that user experience flaw in order to encourage downloads?  But we only have a subscription, no PDA.

Cindy Harper

From: John Holm <jholm1 at norwich.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 4:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Proquest ebook central full download problem on smartphones

I can say that in our case, we opted into the "download from reader only" option intentionally, to minimize unnecessary DDA costs. We want users to take advantage of the free preview in the online reader before downloading, which automatically triggers a Short Term Loan for DDA titles. The assumption is that if this option were set to No, novice users would be likely to download immediately without evaluating the content to make sure it suits their needs. We try to encourage users to use the online reader in general whenever possible due to all the usability problems associated with Adobe Digital Editions. We are hopeful that ProQuest will bring back the online reader to the mobile interface.

I hope this helps!

John

John Holm, MLIS
Head of Digital Services
Kreitzberg Library
Norwich University
158 Harmon Drive
Northfield, VT 05663
802.485.2171
www.norwich.edu<http://www.norwich.edu/>




From: Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] On Behalf Of Karen McElfresh
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 4:03 PM
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Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Proquest ebook central full download problem on smartphones

I just checked our ProQuest settings and ours also had the "Download from Reader Only" option set to 'Yes'.  I don't remember setting it to that, and I didn't even know it was an option. I'm trying to think of a reason why we wouldn't want to let users download from their mobile devices - am I overlooking something?

Karen McElfresh, MSLS
Resource Management Librarian
The University of New Mexico
Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
kmcelfresh at salud.unm.edu<mailto:kmcelfresh at salud.unm.edu>

From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org>> On Behalf Of Harper, Cynthia
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Subject: [Eril-l] Proquest ebook central full download problem on smartphones

Was anyone else caught by this problem?


Case Description: I don't know how long this problem has existed, but users are not seeing a READ ONLINE option on their phones, either iOS or Android. They only have the FULL DOWNLOAD and chapter download options. Full Download says "Virginia Seminary wants you to open this book first", and Open Book does not open the book.
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5/17 1PM

So glad to hear that this has only occurred since May 9.  I have corrected the setting on our account, I believe, and will test soon to make sure that the download link works from the description page.

Maybe none other of your users had this setting set to "yes", but I suspect it was the default unless we were guided to set it to No by you, since I didn't intentionally set it to Yes.

And you really should email all of your users who have this setting set to "Yes only allow download from reader"
To notify them that this change had turned off access for their smartphone users.

And did you send out a notification on May 9 in a general email?


Cindy Harper
E-services and periodicals librarian
Virginia Theological Seminary
Bishop Payne Library, VTS Box 159
3737 Seminary Road
Alexandria VA 22304
charper at vts.edu<mailto:charper at vts.edu>
703-461-1794


From: Harper, Cynthia
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 9:59 PM
To: Ebooks Support <ebooksupport at proquest.com<mailto:ebooksupport at proquest.com>>
Subject: Re: 03458319: No READ ONLINE shows on phones

When did this occur? The turning off of the read online?
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From: noreply at salesforce.com<mailto:noreply at salesforce.com> <noreply at salesforce.com<mailto:noreply at salesforce.com>> on behalf of Ebooks Support <ebooksupport at proquest.com<mailto:ebooksupport at proquest.com>>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 6:29:25 PM
To: Harper, Cynthia
Subject: RE: 03458319: No READ ONLINE shows on phones

Hello Cindy,

Thank you for contacting Ebook Technical Support! The "read online" option was recently removed for users accessing on a mobile device. I submitted an enhancement request to our engineering team, requesting that they add a feature that allows libraries that have enabled "download from reader only" to download ebooks on mobile devices. Enhancement requests are reviewed and prioritized by Ebook Central's product managers. Not all enhancement requests are guaranteed to be added to Ebook Central.

You have the option to turn of the "download from reader only" setting. You can do this in LibCentral > Settings > Access Permissions > Default > General > see the "Downloads" heading.

Please let me know if you have any additional feedback about this change, and I will add that to the enhancement request.

Thank you,
<name of support agent>
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Technical Product Specialist, Ebooks
ProQuest | Seattle, WA | 1-800-521-0600 x74350


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Subject: 03458319: No READ ONLINE shows on phones

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Case Description: I don't know how long this problem has existed, but users are not seeing a READ ONLINE option on their phones, either iOS or Android. They only have the FULL DOWNLOAD and chapter download options. Full Download says "Virgina Seminary wnats you to open this book first", and Open Book does not open the book.

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