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This study gives highly
detailed data on the eBook purchasing and use habits of a
sample of 70 public libraries. The survey helps its readers to
answer questions such as: how much are public libraries
spending on eBooks? How much do they spend on specific vendors
and publishers such as OverDrive, Baker & Taylor, EBSCO,
Recorded Books, Gale and Harper Collins, Penguin/Random House
and many others.
The study also gives
detailed data on the extent that various eBook use and
purchasing models account for library eBook spending,
providing data on ownership models, pay per view models,
subscription models and others. The study also provides
data on the growth rate of each type of model. The report
also looks at how libraries use public domain
eBooks.
The study also provides
detailed data on the use of eAudiobooks, relating
expenditures, growth rates, and the number of titles held. In
addition the report looks at the extent to which public
libraries are able to make available eBooks for best sellers,
and their overall strategy for reconciling their print and
eBook collections.
The study also looks at
the growing use of tablet computers in public libraries, at
the uses and abuses of eBook use statistics, use of electronic
directories, the direction of eBook prices, and many other
issues in public library eBook selection and
management.
Just a few of the
study’s major findings are that:
- Public library spending on eBooks
is expected to increase by 33 percent in 2014.
- In 2013, the libraries in the
sample spent a mean of $10,861 on eAudiobooks.
- Libraries in the sample estimate
that a mean of 53.72 percent of their eBook collection
spending is through contracts negotiated by consortium.
- Survey participants estimate that
nearly half (a mean of 48.36 percent) the top 20 print titles
that were loaned out to patrons in the last year are also
available for loan as eBooks.
