It will be fascinating to see if big retailers (as distinct from booksellers) can
further ebook adoption.
Not exact matches
And yet the U.S., the country
furthest along in
ebook adoption, is stuck at 20 %.
It does seem like Brazil's
adoption of
ebooks will be slower than in most of the rest of South America, where Spanish usage will mean
far more «local language»
ebooks will be available to make the investment in a dedicated ereader worthwhile.
From what I've seen so
far, I think the lack of the higher formatting capabilities is going to hinder the
adoption of
eBooks in my area, the technical communications field.
Eli Neiburger, deputy director of AADL, warns against dedicating disproportionate resources to
ebooks when the
adoption curve for them has flattened so quickly: The restrictive licenses offered elsewhere
further limit their usefulness to all patrons in a given library system.