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FYI, print disability encompasses far more than legal blindness. A variety of sensory, developmental, or physical disabilities may be involved. And I'm not speaking specifically of the USA; the Marrakesh Treaty is perhaps more relevant in a global group. Australia's service - or the only one I've been able to find out anything about after a fair bit of digging - is run through Vision Australia, is not promoted to people with non-visual disabilities, requires those with physical disability to be completely unable to hold all paper books in order to access the service (there is a huge spectrum of physical print disability that is left out here); and they don't include ebook lending anyway, only audio format. They refer clients who need ebooks to the public library system. A library is far more than shelves of paper books. A public library's core purpose is to provide information and resources in a variety of media to the full spectrum of its community, and to reduce barriers to access (including but not limited to financial barriers). All the librarians I know would state equity to be very much a core value, and none would say that digital services and accessible formats (including ebooks and audiobooks) are an optional extra. |
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One of the great follies is trying to be all things to all people. Sometimes known as the old saying "jack of all trades, master of none". I do understand that many librarians (and teachers for that matter) tend to have a certain back ground and world view. I've mentioned that worked in libraries quite a bit in high school, both at my local library in a summer job as well as in my high school library during the year. But when dealing with the realities of limited budgets, it's not always a wise use of resources. Many libraries specialize. When we are talking about online resources, rather than walk in resources, there is no reason not to use centralized resources. As far as Australian resources go, well, that's something to be solved by Australia. The US put in it's own exception to copyright law to handle the situation. Perhaps more countries should do the same. Last edited by pwalker8; 07-08-2019 at 09:17 AM. |
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They have put in the exception. It's just defined in overly-limited terms and poorly implemented, as "special" exceptions so often are. Last edited by meeera; 07-08-2019 at 10:40 AM. |
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The wrinkle ebooks add to the already long standing issues....is that it is (or could be) every bit as convenient to check out and read an ebook from the library as it is to buy and read an ebook from Amazon (or any other commercial place). As such, MORE people would be incentivized to use their library than buy a book. This is, I would imagine, the reason publishers are making ebooks more expensive for libraries....to cut down on the substitution of sales for library check outs. |
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And while there are disability issues, and there are poverty issues, how much of library usage goes to the impoverished and disabled? When I check out an ebook, it definitely is a sales substitution. When I was a child, my library usage didn't really take away sales...but it certainly counted as audience acquisition. |
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![]() I think you have the services backwards. It's not that commercial options obviate the desire for library services. What if the library had music streaming? What if the library had movie streaming? Would such services offered by the library reduce Netflix and Spotify subscriptions? |
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There were ebook pricing issues from the beginning of everybody's ereaders; publishers were afraid prices were going to be lower. We pay taxes but do they cover libraries enough? Get involved in your local gov't and find out, if you see something, say something! I know I donate to libraries what I can (not much) because of what they do.
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I checked my library's annual report.
Total budget $148,703 Of that only $8,839 was spent on books, media and periodicals. There are 6 members in the book selection committee and each can select 5 books per month for purchase. |
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I was looking at the 2018 annual report from one local library. Over the last 4 years the number of pbook checkouts (2015-2018) has dropped while the number ebook checkouts has climbed. Oddly, pbooks show a drop in adult and youth checkouts but an increase in the use of in-library resources.
We might want to meander into the realm of audiobooks where Audible has a policy of no library sales. For one local library, this meant the speaker at their grand opening of their new building had none of her audiobooks available in the library. |
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Few seem to recognize what a great job publishers of narrative nonfiction books have done in navigating the digital transition while magazines and newspapers, employing the same sorts of authors, have been devastated. Fiction readers may not care -- because no matter have good or bad the economics, their kind of books will still be written and distributed. Not so much with the kind I read. Most of them are based on book proposals that won't result in anything good to read unless they are funded. I am now finishing up Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II. Author Michael Zuckoff explains that he spent his advance on the "modern quest" making up about half the book. No advance, no modern adventure, no book. Contrast with the university press model. Advances are only a couple thousand. Or less. This is not enough to allow the author to produce a better manuscript. University press editing for readability, for most titles I see, is ineffective in comparison with the big five standard. And as for public libraries, university presses, with exceptions, refuse to lease them eBooks at any price. In these ways the university presses are almost as bad as Amazon's publishing ventures. Why the silence regarding them? Last edited by SteveEisenberg; 07-08-2019 at 08:30 PM. |
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You may also have noticed that today's libraries do much more than warehouse and loan books though that is a major portion of their raison d'être. One item from the IFLA and Sharon Day from the Edmonton Public Library can be found here: Libraries Can't Get Enough eBooks. |
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