(24 Apr 2023) The rapid adoption of ebooks in recent years has led to greater scrutiny of pricing models.
For a long time the adoption of ebooks by libraries lagged behind the adoption of ejournals, but a seismic change came with the Covid-19 pandemic. As Jack Macdonald, Director of Library Sales at Cambridge University Press explained, it accelerated many of the trends that were already there, as librarians tried to ensure all the assigned readings and textbooks were available electronically: “That’s not a new trend, but because of the pandemic, everything flipped to remote, more or less overnight, and that just made that a bigger issue.”
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