Harry Wallop and Victoria Bell, Reporters, Telegraph.co.uk

E-books Helping Surge in Library Members

October 27, 2009 at 12:02 am PT

After years of library membership declining and fears that the public no longer wanted to borrow books, some institutions are reporting a spike in interest since they started to offer e-books.

Only a handful of libraries have started to offer the service, but many in the library world are hopeful that the revolution in digital reading can help transform libraries’ fortunes, and that the majority of libraries will soon offer downloads as a matter of course, alongside the latest Dan Brown paperback.

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