Nine models, on name: untangling the e-book muddle

摘要

What's the future of e-books? What should librarians do about them? The easy answer to the second question may be, "Don't lose too much sleep just yet." There's no good answer to the first question because their's not one medium called an "e-book" the way there's one medium called a DVD or an audio CD. Let's look briefly at nine e-book varieties.