TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
June 29th, 2009

E-book surveys worthy of your time

By David Rothman

image Kevin Herrera, head of  library information technology at the University of Mississippi Libraries, hopes you’ll fill out the appropriate survey(s) below.

Respectively, the two surveys are for:

Whether you live inside or outside the U.S., here’s a chance to speak up on such issues as e-book costs vs. those for p-books. As described, the study concerns “use of e-books, e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader, and e-book software on portable devices such as smartphones.

“The information gathered will be used to consider ways in which libraries acquire and support e-books and how library users interact with the library in using e-books.”

Related: Why librarians need to care about DRM and e-book standards—and affordable hardware.

Photo: Kindle the eBook 2.0, CC-licensed from jurvetson.

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