From: Barbara A. Genco <bagencoconsulting_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:51:02 -0500

Hello all-A colleague and I did a survey of 41 US Public Libraries and got some fascinating results on their use of eBooks. We included J and YA books in our mix. Though the survey is now almost 9 months old it may still be of interest: http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/papers/ifla75/212-genco-en.pdf

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From: Claudia Pearson
 Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 9:55 AM To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu Subject:
 e-books in libraries

I'm curious how many librarians are acquiring new books in electronic format and what kind of readers they are purchasing/using to make these available to their users if any. There's a lot of promotional effort going into the google reader vs. kindle as Christmas gifts, but couldn't e-books also be made available in "read-only" formats for computers? How many libraries are stocking e-book readers and an e-book list?

Nice blog from Holt regarding the kind of books that are being sold outside of mainstream publishing in e-book format.

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