CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- VIEWPOINT -- E-books in academic libraries -- An overview of electronic books: a bibliography -- The e-book industry today: a bumpy road becomes an evolutionary path to market maturity -- Using electronic textbooks: promoting, placing and embedding -- Desirable search features of web-based scholarly e-book systems -- Electronic textbooks that transform how textbooks are used -- Implications for electronic publishing in libraries and information centres in Africa -- E-books in an academic library: implementation at the ETH Library, Zurich -- Can electronic textbooks help children to learn? -- Electronic books: their integration into library and information centers -- Book reviews -- Note from the publisher.