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Health sector - Don't let e-books give you cardiac arrest. Medical book publishers and information suppliers are beginning to make a big noise about e-books. But take up remains slow and, as Tracey Caldwell discovered, you might need deep pockets to take advantage of these exciting new developments.
E-books save shelf space, previously unwieldy tomes can be accessed and searched within seconds, and all the signs are that publishers are transferring large medical and health print publications onto electronic format.
Librarians and information professionals in the medical and health sectors are welcoming the accelerating emergence of e-books, but a note of caution is creeping in. The cost of e-books is high, some believe unreasonably so, and the take-up and usage is disappointingly low. Librarians are left wondering if e-books are worth spending money on.
Betsy Anagnostelis, librarian at the Royal Free Hospital Medical Library and a member of the ...
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