E-book readers are just as well suited to scholarly books as they are to the latest Jane-Austen-meets-zombies literary sensation. University presses understand that some scholars want the option to buy monographs in electronic form, and they know how to sell to those scholars: one book at a time, straight from the presses' Web sites or through a vendor like Amazon.com. "Librarians want to buy e-books, and they want to buy them now," said Alex Holzman, director of Temple University Press.
