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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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what if libraries had print on demand machines?
"hey, i borrowed this book last week and i really liked it. can i buy a copy?" the publisher and the library would both get a cut of the sale.
i don't know the prices of those machines so i don't know if it would even be feasible.