image from The Washington Post In USA in 2017, libraries spent 27 percent of their collection budgets on electronic materials — which include e-books, databases and other digital content — versus 54.8 percent on print from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/26/e-books-libraries-are-huge-hit-leading-long-waits-reader-hacks-worried-publishers/?arc404=true