Comments on: Who Is Reading Your E-Books?

By: Tatto Paper

Tatto Paper — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:00:05 +0000

Saw your Blog bookmarked on Reddit. Nice Blog.

By: Eric Rumsey

Eric Rumsey — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:37:53 +0000

Good points - eBooks in General libraries and Sci/Tech libraries is quite different -- See my article: What makes a good eBook?

By: Elisa

Elisa — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:54:09 +0000

The key is definitely finding the right e-Book for the needs of your patrons. Ours are very well used. Mind you I continually watch stats and evaluate them yearly and make adjustments, but over all as we continue to teach and show folks these books, they are getting used very well.

I also know that they are read, but the huge advantage is they are available to everyone at any of our locations 24/7.

Another thing to keep in mind is the different interfaces (vendors) our patrons like the ability to share with colleagues easily or even email themselves sections for later use. Open URL is a huge advantage in e-Books.

By: linguarian

linguarian — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:43:39 +0000

What a timely and interesting post. No one but me seems to be reading mine at my hospital library.

By: Zamurai

Zamurai — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 04:38:06 +0000

There is a lot of buzz about ebooks. But finding the right ebooks is the difficult. Most ebooks available are useless.