E-books helping surge in library members →
It works by members of libraries logging onto a website, either at the library or at home, typing in their library membership number and downloading the books to their computer.
I find it fascinating that most people I know that don’t like eBook readers explain that their love “for holding a physical book” as their main argument. Not that there is something wrong with that, but it’s a subjective and customs barrier, not a technological one at this point.
Readers do not need to remember to take their books back on time – a perennial problem for many consumers, because the digital book automatically deletes itself from their machine after 14 days.
Just like the CD’s audio quality was displaced by the MP3 players convenience, the features of the eBook are going to make traditional books impractical in a few years.
One last thing, Amazon should be careful about its lack of ePub support. Maybe they should ask Sony how the ATRAC music format is doing against MP3.
