Everything That’s Wrong with E-Book Statistics: A Comparison of E-Book Packages

Digital e-book collections are an important part of a modern academic library collection, and it is important to analyze the use. However, there are many difficulties regarding the usage statistics, for example, analyzing, comparing, and gathering (Cox, 2008). Each year libraries gather usage statis...

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1. Verfasser:	Karin Byström
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	Digital e-book collections are an important part of a modern academic library collection, and it is important to analyze the use. However, there are many difficulties regarding the usage statistics, for example, analyzing, comparing, and gathering (Cox, 2008). Each year libraries gather usage statistics from publishers and vendors, but it’s difficult to do something relevant with it. Libraries want to use usage statistics in the renewal process. They want to establish value for money by comparing the number of downloads and price per download. Usage statistics for e-books is much more complicated than e-journal statistics, and that brings great implications