Training session today from our biggest (by far) ebook providers. 37,000 titles.

Discovered we're his example university as he trails round the country selling the product. Apparently we're the biggest user bar one (a uni with a lot of campuses abroad, with presumably limited library facilities). Not only that but rather than the average usage of such collections running to about 50% of the titles getting at least a view, apparently we're up at 70% which is good.

Hopefully with the new data mining post we've just employed we'll start getting some really useful/interesting statistics out of what's on offer from this and many other databases.

I'm still not convinced ebooks have really 'arrived' though when they must be read on a PC connected to the internet (though that's frequently becoming easier to manage!).