Elena Macevi?i?t?|Kersti Nilsson|Tom Wilson|Annika Bergström|Lars Höglund
THE CASE OF THE E-BOOK IN “SMALL LANGUAGE” CULTURE: MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND THE DIGITAL SOCIETY
article describes research project conducted sweden initial baseline results produced investigating statistical data general statistical sources representative surveys swedish population public academic libraries project looks change introduced book sector ebooks sweden chosen special case country high literacy level high penetration information technology everyday life people time spread ebooks start seems diffusion ebooks production distribution use affected problems characteristic typical small publishing marketsthe authors present goals project theoretical framework data collected 2012 demonstrate relatively low scale ebook publishing use libraries emerge main channel access ebooks readers usual problems ebook production distribution visible countries observed sweden well ebooks legally books services licensed software thus excluded privileges enjoyed paper books readers demand ebooks ready pay price traditional books prefer acquire free channels publishers seek maintain monopoly ebook distribution fear piracy libraries lose independence acquisition collection management choice ebooks readers determined access technology age education well reading habitskeywords digital books sweden publishing industry reading book distribution libraries