Specific e-book titles should be cataloged in their own records. E-book titles should be purchased for what they add to the collection. Purchasing e-text versions of titles already owned in paper makes little collection development sense to me. Purchasing e-texts should be purchased when they improve library service or patrons' reading experience. For speedy acquisition of titles requested by patrons.
Few changes offer a more dramatic improvement in library service.
When e-text provides text and audio versions in the same package. Librarians considering purchasing e-book readers for lending should consider these questions. E-book producers are signing deals with specific publishers paper book publishers to digitize the text of specific authors. So the books of popular authors aren't being digitize to all e-book formats at the same time. Palm Pilots will provide access to lesser known authors as well as some better known authors.