From: Kohn, Karen <kohnk_at_arcadia.edu>
Hello,
I'm curious whether anyone has a better strategy for buying ebooks than
I do. I'm getting a lot of requests for them lately, and the process is
tedious.
We have e-books from two major vendors: EBL and NetLibrary. So I check
every titles on those two sites to see if they have it. After that I'm
not quite sure what to do. Occasionally a book is old enough to be out
of copyright and then Google ebooks might have it for free. I know
sometimes publishers sell ebooks directly, but I'm not that familiar
with which ones do that. I've not had much luck actually finding the
titles that faculty are requesting.
Is there any one-stop place I can look up a book and find out where it's
available as an ebook? What do other libraries do?
Thanks.
/Karen Kohn/
Collection Development Manager
Education and Sociology Librarian
Landman Library
Arcadia University
450 S. Easton Road
Glenside, PA 19038
ph: 215-572-8528
fax: 215-572-0240
Received on Wed Apr 06 2011 - 03:02:22 EDT