Ebooks face triple threat; ebrary survey finds that digitized texts still up against multiple hurdles in academe.(infotech)

A survey of libraries done by ebook vendor ebrary found that while ebooks have become morepopular, growth is being slowed for a number of reasons. According to Allen McKiel, director of libraries at Northeastern State University (Tahlequah, OK), who reviewed the survey results for ebrary, three broad issues emerged: "the intertwined relationship between print and electronic," combined with "the complexity of e-marketing models" has exacerbated an "already tense relationship" between libraries and publishers; "ebook collections and research tools are not well understood by a significant percentage of faculty and students"; and "a growing percentage of libraries are …