Online Learning Update

April 6, 2012

Online Learning: Grasping the e-book era

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:02 am

By Jill Vejnoska, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Electronic book fanciers. Checking out nearly 10 times as many titles in August as they had just six months earlier. By December, circulation had doubled again. And Jonathan McKeown almost certainly knew why. “Christmas happened,” says McKeown, associate director of central and outreach services for Cobb’s libraries. Sales of so-called “e-readers” exploded during this past holiday season, when dedicated devices for downloading electronic versions of books such as the Kindle and NOOK, along with tablet computers that can perform similar functions, were seen as a “must have” gift. Between mid-December and early January, the number of adults in the United States who owned e-readers and tablets nearly doubled, according to a Pew Research Center report.

http://www.ajc.com/lifestyle/grasping-the-e-book-1403341.html

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