Research for Cult Committee – e-Lending: challenges and opportunities / Dan Mount ; This re search paper was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) and commissioned, supervised and published by the Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies
.-- Brussels Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies. European Parliament 2017
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This briefing identifies key challenges and opportunities in the evolving field of e - lending via public libraries based on an analysis of 18 different e - lending models in Europe and North America. It concludes that on - going dialogue between libraries and publishers, alongside better comparative data on e-lending and e-book purchasing across all EU Member States, will be among the key en abling factors for e-lending in the future.