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Take ebrary’s Student E-book Survey!
If you are a student, click here.
For librarians, click here. Read the FAQ’s here.
To receive ebrary’s 2007 Global Faculty E-book Survey, please register here.
For our first Global E-book Survey, please sign up here.

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Is Print Reference Dead?
—this poll was taken February and March 2008

If prices were the same, I’d buy:
—this poll was taken April 2008.

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Here’s a new spin on eBook publishing and business models. Berkshire Publishing offers FREE searching/browsing of reference titles before purchase. Libraries and/or end users can subscribe to the content, directly from the site for an annual fee. Example: Pricing for their new title, Global Perspectives of the United States, is $49.00 annually. The print list […]

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Check out the New York Times article Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias from Sunday, March 16, 2008
Written by Noam Cohen
Cohen says, “the classic multivolume encyclopedia is well on its way to becoming the first casualty in the end of print.”

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Mark R. Nelson’s new article on E-Books is a must read. Check it out in EDUCAUSE Review, link above.
Highlights include: what is an eBook, recent eBook developments, eBook readers, standards, adoption and cultural acceptance of eBooks, and what all this means to Higher Education (and eventually all education).

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Beginning in April, I plan to do audio interviews with various ebook publishers about….well, ebooks. What do YOU want to know? What publishers do you want to hear from? What would you ask them? Interviews will be posted on the blog.
Do any librarians want to be interviewed about ebooks? Give me a holler.

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Kari Paulson, President of EBL, offered these statistics at the Charleston Conference last fall. I verified them with her today. The stats are from EBL. Kari collected these anecdotal stats to respond to the common question, is anyone using eBooks?
At EBL, in the month of October, 2007
The average patron spent 32 minutes reading online, per […]

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I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a generalization that all librarians think eBooks are overpriced, whether they are reference, textbooks, techy, or monographs. Many librarians comment that eBooks should be comparable, if not cheaper, than the print counterparts due to lack of printing/binding/shipping. Publishers, on the other hand, price eBooks […]

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