Tuesday 16 March 2010

Public libraries and eBooks

With the growth of the Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, iPad (soon), and others (including Acrobat Reader), how will public libraries handle ebooks and real books in the future?

Actually, many already do. For instance, my local library offers ebooks as PDF downloads and other online reader formats for PCs and Macs. But will a patron be able to walk in with an iPad or Kindle and be able to "borrow" an ebook with the touch-of-the-screen? Of course, the library will need to control how many e-copies of an ebook it allows people to borrow at any one time, and the ebook will need to expire and "disappear" from the e-reader after a period of time (the due date). But there are less obvious questions: CHECK OUT DR DOBBS' (no relation) INTERESTING POST ON THE FUTURE OF EBOOKS HERE

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