I heard this on the way to work this morning. It is part of an NPR series on libraries. It was pretty interesting, but I already knew a lot of it thanks to our MR forums and discussions.
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E-books have changed the world of publishing in fundamental ways. The business model that encouraged publishers to support the work of public libraries has changed to such an extent that this relationship has been stressed to the point of non cooperation.
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Link to the piece (audio) is here:
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/05/209114...lishing-houses
[related:
Library skips publisher, goes directly to author, image by Wonderlane via
Flickr]