There is enormous potential for ebooks in academic institutions.  This project was established to help academic institutions address the challenge of ebooks.

Three infographics (Creation, Curation and Consumption) summarise the opportunities, issues and challenges. They link to website pages where the themes are expanded with references to content created as part of the project (e.g. case studies) and the the wider literature

Institutional creation of ebooks opens up a number of opportunities

Making ebooks isn’t hard but there are a number of issues to consider

Institutions wishing to create theor own ebooks will need to overcome some challenges

Curation (management) of ebooks opens up new opportunities for the end user and also the institution

There is no single way of acquiring and managing books

Managing ebooks presents some significant challenges which have only partially been solved

ebooks give users real benefits

Users don’t use ebooks in the same way as print books. Ebook technology is still evolving

Ebooks are challenging our notion of what a ‘book’ is. It’s not just the technology change that presents challenges. Business models are also evolving