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Originally Posted by sdive
Could anyone indicate any studies or industry reports concerned with the purchase of academic e-books? All studies I have come across deal with library consumption. Surely Uni students are also purchasing some textbooks ...
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I wouldn't be so sure that students are buying that many. Many of the academic publishers seem to have adopted a policy of pricing so that only academic libraries can afford to buy their books. Prices of £120 to £150 are not uncommon. There used to be a very good pirate site for the exchange of academic books, (so I'm told), and I know some students used that. There's also a healthy second-hand text book market, as distinct from academic books, that is often person-to-person. So my guess is that there is a lot of commerce going on - most of it not involving the publishers.