With the advent of downloadable retail eBooks marketed to individual consumers, for the first time in their history libraries encountered an otherwise commercially available text format they were prevented from adding to their collections. Trade eBooks in Libraries examines the legal frameworks which gave rise to this phenomenon and advocacy efforts undertaken in different jurisdictions to remove barriers to library access.
"Le FP7 (Seventh Framework Programme) de l'Union Européenne a financé à hauteur de 12,1 millions d'euros le projet IMPACT, destiné à établir un centre européen d'accès aux technologies et experts de la numérisation de masse, afin d'aider les bibliothèques, musées et archives à mener à bien leurs projets de numérisation."