recent opening of The European Library can seem like an attempt to show the American commercial companies such as Google and Microsoft, that Europe can and also joining forces 47 national libraries is able to preserve and present a great online community of the cultural heritage of European countries. Whether the collection will be developed to be as resilient as the Google Book Search project we will see in the near future, but now may be fair to say that the smooth functioning will not be its strengths and finances allocated by the libraries participating in a project its operations will not be able to compare with those to whom the giant internet access. Despite numerous controversies related to the projects Google and Microsoft may be noted that interest in books by these companies began to change the mentality of the circles associated with the book, both amateur and professional. Despite this, it seems striking view of a substantial part of the contributors about reading e-books. Both professionals, which undoubtedly include Grazyna Straus, Catherine and Sebastian Wolff faithful and casual Internet users believe that the percentage of those who read books from monitor must be small. Evidence of this though is that researchers from the National Library until 2006 joined to their surveys, questions about downloading files from the network of books, study by flashbook.pl and speeches on various internet forums. Similar conclusions were reached by Andrzej Gasiorowski, who noted that quite easily come into possession of an electronic version of the track, but using it is quite difficult, because it should then re-converted to the printed version, which is highly profitable. Also popular Polish writers tend to be unfavorably disposed to the books read the monitor screens. Despite the opinion of this kind, supported by many lovers of the printed book, the number of e-books is growing. According to Andrew and Aneta Zygadlo Wierzchowska in 2006, circulated on the Internet, "about 20 - 25 thousand books in electronic form in the Polish language in the world probably several hundred thousand items," and "per book sold in bookstores sometimes falls several hundred or several thousand copies and disseminated over the Internet. " Despite the lack of comprehensive studies in this direction, it seems that the estimates of the number of e-books are the network adopted by the cited authors are quite understated. Using the agency only Polish Internet Library, we can reach up to 29 243 publications, and adding the content available in other digital libraries, it appears that we have access to a much higher number of e-books. If, however, take into account only the book, distributed on the Web in violation of the rights of authors and publishers of their number could actually oscillate between 20 and 25 thousand. However, the view that the book sold for one falls a few hundred or a few thousand copies distributed in the network, seems exaggerated. for example (rather subjectively chosen) may take the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince JK Rowling, which was sold in 2006 in Poland in the number of 544,000 copies. Taking into account the calculations cited authors (Zygadlo and Wierzchowska) just sold this number multiplied by 300, which will result 163 200 000 downloads of the e-book title.
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