The future of the book: Libraries as museums?

Katie Krueger Wonders Will this idyllic scene – girl with book in nature – soon be something we can only read about? Will the book disappear? A panel at the WI Book Festival this past weekend seemed to think so. In Defense of Change: The Changing Nature of the Book was a panel of two book sellers, two publishers, and literary agent discussing how the book world has changed. With a few exceptions, the discussion hovered around the challenges of the new world: Decreasing book sales. Amazon.com’s Ubiquity. Rising text book prices. A growing used book market. Declining numbers of readers.

October 23, 2007 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. Sheilah says:
    October 23, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    Missing Link
    Is this the blog the link is supposed to go to?
    http://katiekrueger.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/the-f uture-of-the-book-libraries-as-museums/

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  2. Walt says:
    October 24, 2007 at 2:31 am

    Amazing stuff
    Amazon’s ubiquity. A growing used book market. Neither of which seems to gibe with declining readership and loss of interest in books. (Neither do rising library circulations and the fact that new book sales are steady at worst, despite the increased availability of used books.) But, as usual, doom-crying makes better copy: Better “books are dying” than “my bookstore is in trouble.”

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