10.26180/5b80d6197f67a Francois Petitjean Francois Petitjean Focused Australian Study Monash University 2018 ebooks e-books e-lending elending ebook e-book libraries policy Australia Library and Information Studies Knowledge Representation and Machine Learning Intellectual Property Law Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies Communications and Media Policy 2018-08-25 04:07:51 Dataset https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/dataset/Focused_Australian_Study/7010831 <div>The <a href="http://elendingproject.org/index.html">Focused Australian Study</a> shows availability and terms of access for a sample of 546 books across the five main Australian library ebook aggregators (Overdrive, James Bennett, Wheelers, Bibliotheca and Bolinda). This case study provides an overall snapshot of the competitive playing field in a single market, including similarities and differences across aggregators on a title level.</div><div><br></div><div>Giblin et al, ‘Available - at what cost? Investigating international library e-lending ecosystems’ (forthcoming 2019).<br></div>