50 Shades of Red: Losing Our Shirts to Ebooks

- Submitted by Jim Duncan, State Library

Featured in American Libraries is this piece by Jamie LaRue about the erosion of purchasing power for public libraries in today and tomorrow’s e-content spectrum.

“You see what’s going on here: a proliferation of formats combined with a spiking of costs. Together, they greatly impede our ability to meet public demand for a particular work…”

Read more at American Libraries

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