Monday, October 19, 2009
Libraries and eBooks
The New York Times reports that:
“About 5,400 public libraries now offer e-books, as well as digitally downloadable audio books. The collections are still tiny compared with print troves. The New York Public Library, for example, has about 18,300 e-book titles, compared with 860,500 in circulating print titles, and purchases of digital books represent less than 1 percent of the library’s overall acquisition budget.”
“But circulation is expanding quickly. The number of checkouts has grown to more than 1 million so far this year from 607,275 in all of 2007, according to OverDrive, a large provider of e-books to public libraries. NetLibrary, another provider of e-books to about 5,000 public libraries and a division of OCLC, a nonprofit library service organization, has seen circulation of e-books and digital audio books rise 21 percent over the past year.”
“About 5,400 public libraries now offer e-books, as well as digitally downloadable audio books. The collections are still tiny compared with print troves. The New York Public Library, for example, has about 18,300 e-book titles, compared with 860,500 in circulating print titles, and purchases of digital books represent less than 1 percent of the library’s overall acquisition budget.”
“But circulation is expanding quickly. The number of checkouts has grown to more than 1 million so far this year from 607,275 in all of 2007, according to OverDrive, a large provider of e-books to public libraries. NetLibrary, another provider of e-books to about 5,000 public libraries and a division of OCLC, a nonprofit library service organization, has seen circulation of e-books and digital audio books rise 21 percent over the past year.”
Thursday, October 8, 2009
eBook Consumer Buying Behavior
“Other statistics of interest: 45.5% of e-book reader owners are spending between $9 and $20 a month on e-book content, and 11% of total survey respondents said they planned to purchase an e-book over the next 12 months.”
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS58530+09-Sep-2009+BW20090909
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS58530+09-Sep-2009+BW20090909
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