ASA-SIAM Series
E-Books Survey
Given at JSM
series Acquisitions Editor sara J. Murphy staffs the sIAM booth during this
year’s JsM in Washington, DC.
e
very year at JSM, those For those respondents who
staffing the ASA-SIAM answered that they have used or
series booth offer a short would use e-books for profes-
survey to obtain attendee feed- sional purposes, some benefits
back on issues relating to the of the format were the ease of
series. This year’s survey asked searching, accessibility from mul-
demographic questions and then tiple locations, cost being some-
focused on respondents’ use of times lower than printed books,
electronic books (e-books). Of and that e-books are environ-
the 201 survey-takers, 73 (36%) mentally friendly.
had used an e-book for profes- The board and council of
sional purposes within the last 12 SIAM, the organization that han-
months. Only 11 (5.5% of total dles the production details of the
respondents) purchased the books in the series, have recently
e-book; the remainder either used approved a proposal to begin an
a copy that belonged to another e-book program, and the vendor
person or library or received a search is ongoing. Survey respon-
free download. dents’ feedback about e-books
Thirty-six of 146 people will be a valuable resource as the
(25%) said they would consider details of the program are deter-
using e-books for work-related mined. Keep an eye on this col-
purposes in the future. Reasons umn for more news about the
why respondents were not inter- e-book program and how it will
ested in using e-books included affect the ASA-SIAM series.
that they can be hard to read, As always, if you are work-
don’t provide a means to make ing on a book project and are
marginal notes, are hard to interested in submitting a pro-
transport since you need a com- posal, contact Series Acquisitions
puter to access them, and have Editor Sara J. Murphy at
limited accessibility.
murphy@siam.org. n
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