CrossGeneration Analysis of eBook Consumersxc2xb4 Preferencesxe2x80x94A Prerequisite for Effective Management of Public Library Nowadays, with the growing importance of providing digital services, public libraries offer a wide range of ebooks. However, current studies show that reading preferences vary across countries, and identifying ebook demand is therefore difficult. For these reasons, this article focuses on different groups of ebook readers (pensioners, students, economically active) and on factors affecting their attitude to reading ebooks, willingness to receive new library services and willingness to pay for them. For the purpose of this analysis, we are using unique data from an online questionnaire survey among readers of the Municipal Library of Prague in 2019 and own binary logistic models. The results show how ebook genres, information preferences and devices for reading ebooks primarily affect selected groups of ebook readers. The unwillingness of ebook readers to pay for library services is also evident, especially among students. In the last section, we propose some practical implications that could help to library management and possibly attract more ebook readers from different groups.

Social information behaviour in Bookshops: implications for digital libraries We discuss here our observations of the interaction of bookshop customers with the books and with each other. Contrary to our initial expectations, customers do not necessarily engage in focused, joint information search, as observed in libraries, but rather the bookshop is treated as a social space similar to a cafe. Our results extend the known repertoire of collaborative behaviours, supporting further development of models of user tasks and goals. We compare our findings with previous work and discuss possible implications of our observations for the design of digital libraries as places of both information access and social interaction. xc2xa9 2013 SpringerVerlag.