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expansion, ebook, impact, read

Search Statement: ebook expansion impact

the statement "ebook expansion imact" returned no results in academic search premier however i found 304 results on pro quest with this search statement, i was able to find an article about how the growth of ebooks affect public libraries.

Duncan, Ross. "Ebooks and Beyond: The Challenge for Public Libraries." Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 23.2 (2010): 44-55. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 10 Dec. 2012.


Using APSECT i found that this article is peer reviewed, which would fall under authorirty, for sources i found the article is somewhat specific with in text  citations, sometimes, such as a news report listing as much as who was reporting, what time, the station, and date. the purpose is described in the first paragraph and forshadows the rest of the article. for evenness i found that the author is relatively impartial and unbiased, and does not seem to have any strong feeling either way. coverage is great and covers most of what the question asks about ebooks. timeliness does concern me a little, being written in 2010 when ebooks were first starting to become prevalent, though it could be used to compare how ebooks are today and to see how accurate this article was in predicting the growth of ebooks and how it will affect libraries.
            overall i think this would be a great resource for a topic such as this.




this article talks about how the recent growth in popularity of ebooks will affect public libraries. the author uses his sources very well, not only citing but talking about how it may not be 100% accurate, or why this result was so high in a survey. the most compelling part of the argument was how the author compares this to the music industry and how the libraries may face a similar choice of having to go digitial or essential go out of business.
           i feel like libraries do need to find a way to adapt to the changing ebook situation before its too late for them to do anything. i agree with the author in that with the new prevalence in portable ebook readers like the ipad and amazon kindle people are starting to buy those and read ebooks instead of physical books due their portablitiy compared to them. its hard for most people to carry around 50 books wherever they go, but one ipad is small enough to take most places.
           this is a great article and is easy to understand too, i would recommend this to anyone doing research on ebooks.