Data is broken out separately for public, academic and special libraries. The data in the report is based on a sample of academic, public and special libraries in the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe.
Just a few of the report's many findings are that:
- The libraries sampled had a mean number of 3.51 contracts with individual publishers or aggregators.
- For colleges, eBook aggregators represented more than 63% of their total eBook contracts.
- Larger libraries were much more likely than smaller ones to make purchases of eBooks through traditional jobbers.
- Consortia purchases accounted for only about 35% of ebook purchasing of all kinds
- Only 5.56% of libraries sampled have ever developed a video to explain any facet of Ebook use and only about 19% have developed online tutorials.
- Only 13.3% of libraries sampled have incorporated eBook use on Smartphones such as Android, iPhjone or Blackberry into info literacy training.
- On the whole libraries appear satisfied with the quality of usage statistics provided by their major eBook vendors. 11.1% said that the statistics are not too reliable; more than 82% said that they were generally reliable or there were quite reliable.
- 13.58% of the libraries in the sample have digitized out of copyright books in their collections to enable their patrons to have digital access to the contents. Another 18.52% say that they have not done so but plan to do so within the next two years.
- More than 23% of the libraries in the sample owned some kind of stand along ebook reading device.