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With the rise of digital books on the Kindle and the iPad, how is your local paper-based library keeping up? By fighting fire with fire.
Ebook checkouts increased by more than 200% in 2010, according to a recent study from OverDrive, the leading distributor of ebooks and digital audiobooks to libraries.
Ebook checkouts continue to accelerate, almost tripling through September. This adds to the more than 12 million ebook checkouts so far in 2011, paidContent reports.
More than two-thirds of public libraries in the U.S. now offer ebook checkouts, more than 15,000 of which use OverDrive’s platform. That includes heavy hitters like the New York Public Library.
While patrons will always have use for hard copies of books and manuscripts, ebooks can reach far more people while appealing to a younger demographic of new library patrons. OverDrive partnered with Sony, Amazon and Barnes & Noble to make sure their books were available across a range of high-tech ereaders and phones.
Ebook checkouts may be cannibalizing hard copy checkouts — but if that means more people are reading books, the library is doing its job.
Would you rent an ebook instead of purchasing it? Do you think these numbers can continue to grow?
Ebook checkouts continue to accelerate, almost tripling through September. This adds to the more than 12 million ebook checkouts so far in 2011, paidContent reports.
More than two-thirds of public libraries in the U.S. now offer ebook checkouts, more than 15,000 of which use OverDrive’s platform. That includes heavy hitters like the New York Public Library.
While patrons will always have use for hard copies of books and manuscripts, ebooks can reach far more people while appealing to a younger demographic of new library patrons. OverDrive partnered with Sony, Amazon and Barnes & Noble to make sure their books were available across a range of high-tech ereaders and phones.
Ebook checkouts may be cannibalizing hard copy checkouts — but if that means more people are reading books, the library is doing its job.
Would you rent an ebook instead of purchasing it? Do you think these numbers can continue to grow?
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