Share of e-book feature importance according to academic librarians U.S. 2016

The data displays the distribution of importance of e-book features according to academic librarians in the U.S. in 2016. In 2016, 93% of academic librarians in the United States said it was either important or very important that e-books offered persistent URLs. Persistent URLs allow readers to trust that the hyperlink they follow will lead to the intended web resource, even years after publication.