Online or digital journals and databases, along with e-books, consumed more than 70 percent of academic libraries’ materials budgets in 2016, library directors estimated, compared with less than 60 percent in 2010. More money was spent on print books than on e-books in 2016, but the spending gap between the two formats narrowed over the six-year period.
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