The Case for e-Book Literacy: Undergraduate Students' Experience with e-Books for Course Work

A very topical article from the J of Academic Librarianship  

The Case for e-Book Literacy: Undergraduate Students' Experience with e-Books for Course Work - one of the top 25 articles in the J of AL for Oct-Dec 2013

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Not in Love, or Not in the Know? Graduate Student and Faculty Use (and Non-Use) of E-Books

Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits

some interesting discussion

E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits

 Data mining is creeping into every aspect of student life—classrooms, advising, socializing. Now it’s hitting textbooks, too.
CourseSmart, which sells digital versions of textbooks by big publishers, announced on Wednesday a new tool to help professors and others measure students’ engagement with electronic course materials.
When students use print textbooks, professors can’t track their reading. But as learning shifts online, everything students do in digital spaces can be monitored, including the intimate details of their reading habits.

E-books still have a long way to go before librarians and their customers will be satisfied

E-books still have a long way to go before librarians and their customers will be satisfied, reports Tom Wilkie from last month'sSpecial Libraries Association meeting

The e-book may be the future but it is not yet working, according to librarians and scholarly publishers speaking to the annual meeting of the Special Libraries Association in Chicago in late July.

Students Find E-Textbooks ‘Clumsy’ and Don’t Use Their Interactive Features

From CHE
A recent report... shows that many students find the e-textbooks “clumsy” and prefer print.

 

How To Compare e-Book Platforms

This is the final installment in a three-post series on comparing different e-Book offerings. The first, How To Compare e-Book Platforms – Part I looked at technical and content requirements and the second, How To Compare e-Book Platforms – Part II discussed functionality and sales models.

Academic Libraries Should Consider a Strategic Approach to Promotion and Marketing of e-Books

Objectives – The main objectives of this study were the following:

1) To determine the existence of a formal promotion or marketing strategic plan for e-books in academic libraries.
2) To identify the marketing and promotion tools being used for e-book marketing.
3) To understand the role of faculty in promoting e-books.
4) To explore the issues and challenges that the libraries are facing in promoting e-books.
5) To investigate the future plans for the promotion of e-books. 

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