For The Industry Standard, Jill Bahar writes…
\”The consumer market for digital books has turned out to be a no-show, but America\’s public libraries still think folks should be checking them out. Ever since March 1999, when the Denver Public Library system kicked off the first virtual branch of digital books available for free to library-card holders, 1,900 of the nation\’s nearly 9,000 public libraries have quietly added thousands of digital titles to their collections. The problem? Their efforts have been so understated that most library patrons have yet to learn about, let alone use, the libraries\’ online collections of reference works and how-to guides.\” [more…]
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