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Reports on pilot to use ebooks (Sony Readers) at Northwest Missouri State U. Students found it frustrating that they couldn't "highlight passages, cut and paste text, or participate in interactive quizzes."

This article is a status report of the usage of eBooks on college campuses. Here is a quote in the article, "John Barnes of Cengage (formerly Gale) told the Charleston audience that, while his company still sells more print than electronic reference, users prefer electronic. He believes libraries should "move faster away from print reference" to meet user needs and increase usage. He cited a study done by Wright State University's Sue Polanka that found much greater use of an electronic collection than a print one, even though the electronic collection was only a fraction of the size of the print one. Further, the cost per use for the electronic collection was less than one-fifth of the cost per use of the print collection." We may want to find that Wright State University study. From the above quote, it seems to point to the feasibility of an all-digital library.

Report on ebook experiment at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Details needed services: preservation, cataloging, rights, etc

Rich presentations on ebooks and library collections. User studies, preservation, rights, future role of library, etc.

Increased sales for ebooks a sign of emergence?

Growing market for ebooks (2006)

Ebooks for business/ technology

The Economics of Publishing and eBooks by Ron Boehm, Chairman and CEO, ABC-CLIO Publishing

Main point: the book needs to be re-engineered for the web, taking advantage of the network (cf IfBook) Interesting point: "As wikipedia has demonstrated, collaboration is easiest when documents are constructed using a modular architecture." Favorite comment: "(Incidentally, I hate the word "ebook". It's like calling a car a "gashorse".)"

Lots of ebook uptake in UK increasing library usage