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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Essential reading for any librarian or library worker would have to be Library Journal, (or Australian Library Journal), but a more entertaining one, and just as full of library information is Unshelved. (for those who for some reason have not realised it, Unshelved appears on this page every day- just look at the top of this page for todays strip)






Sunday, November 09, 2008

Digital revolution comes to printed word

"A survey published in conjunction with the Frankfurt Book Fair last month showed that 40 percent of book publishing professionals thought digital sales, regardless of the format, would surpass the ink-on-paper kind by 2018."

Hmm really? I like e-books, for some applications, I even have made moves into selling ebooks online, so I do appreciate them, but I cannot see them overtaking print within the next decade.

For out of print books, such as the collection at sites such as forgottenbooks.org and Project Gutenberg, the e-book format is a useful way to retain these works, but I cannot see the new book bestseller being bought mainly by download.

Let's see what happens in the next ten years...

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