There are lot's of implications for libraries of course, and this article at Publishers Weekly, a library trade magazine, gives a nice summary of the current e-book scene. A good read for anyone curious about where all this may lead to. Your blogger would like to emphasize a key point that the article makes, namely that libraries don't simply collect that which is currently popular. Libraries, especially college libraries but also the larger public libraries, collect on a broader basis that just that of popularity, and then they preserve that which they have bought for future generations. Like the article says, there wouldn't be a Google Books if libraries had not assembled and preserved all those books over the generations!
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"There are lot's of implications for libraries of course..."
"Lot's"?! Really? I find it almost disgusting that a grammar mistake this glaring would bypass a library staff.
Your blogger apologizes for the grammatical error - being busy he tends to blog while doing other things, and does make the occasional mistake :-)
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