CNET has this story on Ebrary closing a deal that would allow them to offer lots of research titles to many people. It looks that they will try to secure the academic market in the narrowing e-book business.
\”The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company is building a virtual library that will allow students, teachers or other researchers to search for and read digital books online for free. Researchers also will have the option to buy materials, offered online as .pdf (portable document format) files, in print form for a fee.\”
CNET has this story on Ebrary closing a deal that would allow them to offer lots of research titles to many people. It looks that they will try to secure the academic market in the narrowing e-book business.
\”The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company is building a virtual library that will allow students, teachers or other researchers to search for and read digital books online for free. Researchers also will have the option to buy materials, offered online as .pdf (portable document format) files, in print form for a fee.\”
\”The site, expected to launch sometime next year, will also offer links to online booksellers that offer some of Ebrary\’s academic texts, according to the company.\”
\”Tuesday\’s deal with London-based publisher Taylor & Francis will allow Ebrary readers to search for texts in the sciences, humanities, social sciences and engineering fields.\”
\”E-books, or digital copies of printed works, have yet to become best sellers in the consumer market. Yet analysts say that the academic world, which spends a large amount of time searching for documents and research materials, could benefit from such a digital library.\”
\”Fiction is certainly the sexier part of the market…but academics is huge,\” said IDC analyst Malcolm Maclachlan. \”E-books definitely make sense for the academic market. The only people outside e-book makers I\’ve ever seen who were excited about e-books were college professors.\”
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