AADL Talks To Josie Parker
by amy
In June, Ann Arbor District Library director, Josie Parker, attended the second UNESCO World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries, whose "Focus 2011" was "The Book Tomorrow: The Future of the Written Word". In our conversation, Josie discusses what she brought back from her experience in this international arena, as well as her views - and those of fellow librarians, publishers, and authors around the world - on the future of digital publishing.
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Hoppingfun, I appreciate your
Hoppingfun,
I appreciate your lending your point of view to the discussion about ebooks and digital publishing especially since the announcement yesterday by Penguin that it is not going to include its titles in Amazon's Kindle lending program and has asked Overdrive to disable the "Get for Kindle" functionality for all Penguin ebooks. Overdirve is the vendor used by most public libraries to provide ebooks to patrons.
Authors and publishers are struggling to come to terms, literally and figuratively, with the market forces brought to bear through digital publishing. Libraries are in many respects on the sidelines watching to see what happens. I agree with you that libraries are crucial in bridging the digital divide, but we have always managed to flex with whatever changes technology brings. I am confident that ultimately the general public will have access to ebooks through public libraries although the purchasing model will be very different from that which we are accustomed to today.
Josie