Pew: patrons still don't know libraries have ebooks.(news desk)(Pew Internet Project)(Brief article)

Of Americans aged 16 and over, only two percent have borrowed an ebook from a library in the past year, the Pew Internet Project announced at the American Library Association (ALA) conference in Anaheim, CA. Only 12 percent of ebook readers have borrowed an ebook from the library.

Of the general population, the study found 62 percent don't even know whether their local library loans ebooks; 58 percent of library card holders, 53 percent of tablet …