Book – Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again
There is an article in USA Today about this book. The article is: Fidelity for record stores still runs high
Excerpt from USA Today article.
The authors of Record Store Days: From Vinyl to Digital and Back Again (Sterling, $19.95), published to coincide with Saturday’s third nationwide Record Store Day, ponder the past, present and future of record shops through the views of musicians, industry executives, store clerks and fans. The pair discovered that, while record stores have dwindled in the digital age, they remain a vital hub for music fiends and collectors who find the downloading experience a tad lonely.
Library angle
I wanted to mention this book and article because I think there are ideas in it that libraries could use. Record stores are a dying breed and many would say that libraries are that. The lessons that record stores learn could be useful to libraries.
not sure about that…
records stores were almost extinct until someone declared the inferiority of digital media.
digital compression, DRM, big business, DMCA, all contributed to create an environment where record stores could promote the benefits of vinyl and local music and limited pressings and used records and everything else…
since the current generation of ereader hasn’t been around as long as the CD, people haven’t learned about the limitations of the medium of econtent and can’t realize how much libraries offer…
but give it a few years… we already do cool stuff… we have author readings, ILL, we buy tons of material and it’s all without any additional charges…
so it’s going to take educating the public… as soon as the word gets out that libraries get what you want and don’t sell personal information to anyone, those who value privacy will promote the benefits of libraries for us… the only problem is that books are books… there is no data compression problem with text… it’s not like you lose every third word with an ebook… or all the letter “k”s disappear when you convert a book to digital… so we’ll see…..
-eff