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Originally Posted by CJJ
From today's O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference in New York:
Bilbary’s Tim Coates added: “twice as many books read in the US come from public libraries as come from bookstores. Every year, two billion books are circulated. That is a huge reason why publishers should take an interest.”
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The Revson Foundation’s Julie Sandorf called libraries “the last remaining civic public square”. She and others reminded listeners that at a time of declining bricks-and-mortar stores, “libraries have real estate in every community. They can showcase and sell; they could become the new Barnes & Noble front window. Think about the utility of that”.
These are changing times to be sure
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My first thought with all the people happy to see brick and mortar book stores going out of business is that libraries will be soon to follow. It will be interesting to see how people plan to keep them around, or why publishers would care about them in a world where people don't want paper copies as much anyway.