Study shows global diversity of OA book readers | Research Information

"Digital books are being used by an increasingly diverse readership, according to a report from Knowledge Unlatched Research. The research group, funded by the University Presses of UCL, Cornell, University of Michigan and University of California, studied how 2,542 open and closed books from four publishers hosted on the JSTOR platform were being downloaded and read. Traditional measures of book usage focus on print sales. With a growing trend towards digital and particularly Open Access books, presses need new ways of understanding how books are being used, and by who."