Some great quotes, some interesting stats, though when I was finished I was left with three over-riding thoughts: Libraries are benefiting from the economic slowdown Audiences are fragmenting and the idea of touchstone works is being eroded Librarians think they might just replace publishers Later in our phone conversation, Ms. Reardon did start to talk like the…
A nice polite and librarian-like smackdown of the PA position from Voices for the Library: Not only does this threaten a service that has proven to be immensely popular with library users, it undermines the effort by libraries to reach out to housebound borrowers, the disabled and those living in remote areas far from their…
The import of this statement escaped me the first time I glanced at it The Publishers Association has set out an agreed position on e-book lending in libraries that will see library users blocked from downloading e-books outside of the library premises. Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page announced the new guidelines this morning (21 October) at…
The second article today that reinforces the thinking that the slide towards ebooks is starting to become unstoppable! The new library is set to open in August with 10,000 engineering books on the shelves — a decrease of more than 85 percent from the old library. Stanford library director Michael Keller says the librarians determined…
Eoin Purcell Hopes & Dreams I went to Children’s Books Ireland’s talk on Thursday 11th June on the future: ‘Publishing but not as we know it | ebooks, digital publishing and children’. Aside from the very minor quibble, that the panel had no publisher (odd given the topic) it was nonetheless by far the most…
