1. E-book sales versus loans

2. Library development

3. E-lending history
e-book accounts from 4 million library patrons
1,6 Million e-book lendings in 2015
0,6 Million in Q1 2016
Next to offering to patrons : e-book awareness campaign in holidays: Vakantiebieb

4. E-lending trends &challenges
E-reader is most popular device, but support for Adobe DRM is cracking: Watermarking is for e-lending is no option; how to service patrons?
Number of e-books for children growing: ePub3 / fixed layout required, but player support behind…
Digitized books only available as images in reading rooms, how to get these ready for e-lending?
With new subscription models publishers can stop supply to libraries
Customers do not understand the dependency of publishers (used to the library has it all)
Improve user experience to state of the art

5. Lessons learned – Future collaboration
As long there is no law on e-lending, publishers are in charge
Proper usage data could help to take away fear
Beware of misinterpreted stats
User experience for e-lending should be further improved
Market is immature: many technical issues : libraries should take a leading role

6. Questions?