Article In Computers in Libraries and Some Unpublished Parts of the CiL article

The ReadersFirst Working Group has published an article in Computers in Libraries. We are happy that a long follow-up study to the Monash University/our 2018 study of the ebook book market in Canada and the USA was published in July of 2025.

You may read it here: https://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jul25/Blackwell-Halperin-Mason-Parker--Ebook-Availability-Licensing-and-Pricing-in-Canada-and-the-US-A-Follow-Up-Study.shtml

A number of paragraphs from the paper were omitted from the published version of our study to pare it down to meet journal length requirements, even though it was a double-article as published. For those who might be interested in seeing what was left out, please read here (sorry to point you to another link!) There is additional background on the study and—we think, at least—some interesting unpublished conclusions that do not reflect well on big publishers and further explore the plight of the digital library selector in 2025.

If you want to see the 200+ titles used in the study and various details about the vendor holdings, look here.

Hope you enjoy!