Professor David Nicholas MPhil PhD is Director of the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London, where he is also Director of the UCL Centre for Publishing and a director of the CIBER research group. He is a member of the British Library Research Board and Editor of Aslib Proceedings. Dr Ian Rowlands BSc MSc PhD is Reader in Publishing at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London, where he is also an active member of the UCL Centre for Publishing and of the CIBER research group. He recently led the Google Generation project for The British Library and JISC.

• 1. The digital consumer: an introduction and philosophy - David Nicholas, Ian Rowlands, Richard Withey and Tom Dobrowolski 2. The digital information marketplace and its economics: the end of exclusivity - Richard Withey 3. The e-shopper: the growth of the informed purchaser - Chris Russell 4. The library in the digital age - Michael Moss 5. The psychology of the digital information consumer - Barrie Gunter 6. The information-seeking behaviour of the digital consumer: case study – the virtual scholar - David Nicholas, Paul Huntington, Hamid R. Jamali and Tom Dobrowolski 7. The ‘Google Generation’ – myths and realities about young people’s digital information behaviour - Peter Williams, Ian Rowlands and Maggie Fieldhouse 8. Trends in digital information consumption and the future - Barrie Gunter 9. Where do we go from here? - David Nicholas.

"There is no doubt that the information professions would benefit from reviewing and reenergizing their customer orientation, and this book offers a wide range of valuable insights on the behaviour of the digital information consumer from one of the leading teams of information behaviour researchers in the UK…this book is to be recommended, and should be obligatory reading for all information professions."