ebooks

The ebooks@cambridge project started in 2005 and since then many books have been added to the Cambridge University Library catalogues. When first batch of ebooks were negotiated the accompanying catalogue records provided by the publisher were for hard copies of the books and it was this very blogger who converted all the records to relate to the electronic format, and typed in all the links. Now Cambridge students have access to over a thousand texts by various publishers, including the Oxford Textbook of Medicine and access to Cambridge University Press's 'Cambridge Collections' and the Oxford University Press 'Oxford Reference Collection', and a selection of books by Routledge/Taylor Francis amongst many others. The team measure usage each year and found that the books on economics and education were read most: the ebooks@cambridge ebooks were accessed over 56,000 times last year, a staggering amount.
The first ebook I ever read was the Cambridge Companion to Bacon
The NHS have collections of ebooks too, marketed as myilibrary and accessed through an NHS Athens password. This seems to be quite an eclectic collection that includes books on arts and humanities as well as medicine and science. I spot a book on autism, some OUP titles and Foucault's classic 'History of Madness" amongst others.
Ebooks are very popular as people can read them without leaving home.