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From Ramune Kubilius – Collection Development / Special Projects Librarian, Northwestern University, Galter Health Sciences Library
 
The commercial & digitized e-books scenes still will take a while to be stabilized.

Libraries will continue to be pressured to weed print and / or send to storage.

Libraries and librarians will continue to be lured, invited, not invited or forgotten [...]

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Somebody is going to figure out how to do electronic books right. There are too many smart companies out there trying.
– Chuck Hamaker

The e-only trend will slow down. — Katina Strauch

The prices of electronic products will begin to slow down. — Chuck Hamaker

There will begin to be electronic cancelations. That’s the only place to recover [...]