Cross-Generation Analysis of e-Book Consumers' Preferences-A Prerequisite for Effective Management of Public Library

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25410%2F20%3A39916145" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25410/20:39916145 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/11/2/72" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/11/2/72</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info11020072" target="_blank" >10.3390/info11020072</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Cross-Generation Analysis of e-Book Consumers' Preferences-A Prerequisite for Effective Management of Public Library

Original language description

Nowadays, with the growing importance of providing digital services, public libraries offer a wide range of e-books. However, current studies show that reading preferences vary across countries, and identifying e-book demand is therefore difficult. For these reasons, this article focuses on different groups of e-book readers (pensioners, students, economically active) and on factors affecting their attitude to reading e-books, 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 e-book genres, information preferences and devices for reading e-books primarily affect selected groups of e-book readers. The unwillingness of e-book 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 e-book readers from different groups.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50602 - Public administration

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Information (Switzerland)

ISSN

2078-2489

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

72

UT code for WoS article

000519542400058

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85081137901