The generation of e-books

E-books have become increasingly significant in the library collection development. A 2007 international e-book survey showed that 88% of respondents "answered that they own or subscribe to e-books" and nearly half of the respondents (45%) have had access "to more than 10,000 e-books".

Most e-book users used it for practical learning where someone has a very definite problem to solve or a research topic. This might be an indicator to fiction publisher that printed fiction is still their main market.

It is also easy to explain why e-books are more popular for information and research purposes. Students wants to have everything in hand NOW! E-books with its instant access feature, students are difficult to resist the temptation. Different e-books are now developing different facilities to make it more user-friendly. Variations on book-marking, highlighting and note-taking are common to most platforms.

Below are some of the e-books with different content emphasis, give me some feedback if you have been using them.

1. Ebook Library (EBL) has the strongest Australian collection.
2. Gale Virtual reference Library focused on the humanities, and on literature in particular
3. Dawsonera, MyiLibrary,NetLibrary,Questia and ebrary are truly multi-disciplinary