New post from InfoViews – part one in a new series from Leslie Lees, VP of Content Development from ebrary. Academic Ebooks – The Shifting Landscape will discuss changes that are occurring with ebooks and implications for libraries and their users.
Research from Nielsen recently reported the first decline in decades in the number of U.S. households owning television sets from 98.9% to 96.7%. Aside from economic hardships caused by the recession, the other probable reason for the decline is that young people are opting to watch more video content on the Internet and their mobile devices. It is ironic that TV, which has been held responsible for a decline in reading and reader attention spans, is now in the early stages of being disintermediated by video on the web – the new scapegoat for all sorts of cultural and intellectual catastrophe.
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