The Chronicle of Higher Education (May 30, 2008)
reports that almost 70% of research libraries plan to increase spending on ebooks, with non-US libraries more likely to adopt ebooks. The problem is not complex charts and color photos but copyright issues holding back publishers, according to the comments.
Excerpt from
"Library Use of E-books":
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More than half of all patrons reported either extensive or significant use of e-reference books, and nearly a quarter of the college libraries in the sample reported that their patrons used e-books quite extensively. ... Fiction e-books were not used extensively and close to 71% of libraries said that they were used little. Less than 10% reported extensive or significant use of fiction e-books.
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