[Electronic textbooks and libraries abroad]

Electronic textbooks and libraries abroad. - The current article presents a brief analysis of the modern state and perspectives of electronic textbooks and libraries abroad. The material is based on the open access foreign internet sources. Using particular examples it has been shown that despite a long history of electronic textbooks and libraries development, the latter remains at the very early stage. The bureaucratic attempts to speed up this process result in costly failures. It is necessary a painstaking and cautious work in the mode of scientific practical experiment to give electronic textbooks and libraries a chance to make worthy contribution into the progress of training, education and culture.