Feathers, Flight & the Future of Libraries...Google deal brings classic books to Sony Reader...

Feathers, Flight

& the Future of Libraries

Helene BlowersDigital Strategy Director

Columbus Metropolitan Library

OCLC, October 2009

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"Too much light often blinds gentlemen

of this sort. They cannot see the forest

for the trees."

- Musarion [1768], Canto II

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Trend Kindle rekindles the flame for the digital book

In 2008, Amazon’s Kindle, sold 500 thousand units,

32% more than the iPods sold in the year of debut of

Apple’s player. - Citi Investment Research estimate

based upon Sprint network activations

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Google deal brings classic

books to Sony ReaderMarch 19, 2009

Sony's e-book reader is about to get a little

help from Jane Austen in its battle with the

Kindle.

Sony announced a partnership with Google

that will bring a half-million classic books to

the Sony Reader Digital Book. Users will

now be able to access the free book

downloads through Sony's eBook Store.

For years, Google has scanned books and

converted them to digital format--at least in

part--for its Google Book Search project. For

now, Google is providing books to Sony

whose copyrights have expired, which

means most of the new additions to the Sony

Reader will have been published before

1923, according to The New York Times.

Photo: Bryan Derballa/Wired.com

Release Date: June 10, 2009

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Six in 10 people around the world (60%) now have

cellphone subscriptions, signaling that mobile

phones are the communications technology of

choice, particularly in poor countries.

– UN Report, March 2, 2009

Up from 2002 – 15% Internet worldwide: 11%- 2002 >> 23% - 2008

Trend Mobile builds bridges faster

While just 1 in 50 Africans had a

mobile in the year 2000, now 28

percent have a cellular subscription.

– UN Report, March 2, 2009

Countries by advanced

information and communications

technology (ICT) :

1) Sweden

2) South Korea

(nation-wide gigabit bb 2012)

3) Denmark

4) Netherlands

5) Iceland

6) Norway

17) United States

- UN report, March 2009

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In 2007, cell-phone novels (keitai shosetsu) held four of

the top five spots on the literary best-seller list.$240 million market ‘07

Trend Cell-phone novels aren’t so novel anymore.

They’re serious business

http://company.maho.jp/novelMagic Island

• According to a recent Mainichi Shinbum newspaper

survey, 86% of high school, 75% of middle school

and 23% of grade school girls read cell phone novels.

Trend Print is in peril

“As many newspapers struggle to stay

economically viable, fewer than half of

Americans (43%) say that losing their

local newspaper would hurt civic life in

their community "a lot."

Pew Research Study: Stop the Presses (March 12, 2009 )

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Forbes: April 08

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Distribution Center Distribution Agent Distribution format

Distribution Center Distribution Agent Distribution format

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It’s not the

death of the

book to

fear…

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it’s our

dependency on

formats

as our community

(service delivery)

value!

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Story of the Phoenix

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Latin, librarius of books, from libr-, liber inner bark, rind, book

Sept 2009

The Information Age, is an idea that

the current age will be characterized by the

ability of individuals to transfer

information freely, and to have instant

access to knowledge that would have

been difficult or impossible to find

previously. - Wikipedia, 9/09

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The information age of now …

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We Think

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Chauvet Cave – 32,000 yrs old

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What’s the

experience?

What’s the experience?

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What’s the experience?

What’s the

experience?

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consumption

& usecreativity

& production

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Books

Programs

information

storytimes

Media

Computers

Books

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Media

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information

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information

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Programs

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Shared

Discovery

Photo: Aaron Schmidt | walkingPaper.org

Photo: Aaron Schmidt | walkingPaper.org

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Helene BlowersDigital Strategy Director

Columbus Metropolitan Library

hblowers@columbuslibrary.org

My Slides are @

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