Special Feature : Current States of E-book
Market Expansion and Concept Extension of “e-book”
2017 Volume 67 Issue 1 Pages 2-7
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2017 Volume 67 Issue 1 Pages 2-7
The appearance and spread of digital books are pressing for the change of the industrial structure based on the printing technique, physical distribution, and product sales.
It also affects the circulation of scholarly information and cultural accumulation, which are the important roles that publications have played.
Digital books might change the library's function and institutional design as well. The purpose of this paper is to 1) explain the present condition of the digital books facing a difficulty with popularization, and 2) consider its influence on the library services, and the desired correspondences.
