![]() To speak for myself as mainly a reader who uses Overdrive frequently right now and can’t buy a lot of books because I’m being slowly consumed from the inside out by the hideous elder being known as “student loans,” this is an absolutely infuriating move-and depending on how it’s implemented, it might mean I miss out on reading these Tor books at all. A lot of writers also remember how libraries cultivated their love of books and gave them an opportunity to read when they couldn’t otherwise afford-and they want to pay that forward. ( For example.) Hey, and remember when I put “check their book out of the library” as the number two way to support your favorite authors? At least on my corner of the sci-fi Twitterverse, writers (such as Seanan McGuire, John Scalzi, and Chuck Wendig, to name just a few examples) constantly come out swinging for their love of libraries. Writers want people to be able to read their books and perhaps become dedicated fans of their series. By signing up you agree to our terms of useįor writers, this bizarrely adversarial stance publishers seem to take toward libraries can be pretty frustrating. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. ![]() What’s more, librarians also learn about the newest services and technologies and provide information and objective feedback about them.” The large majority of people are not early adopters, so having a place where anyone can walk in and try out and learn about new technologies-accessing ebooks on smartphones, preloaded iPads or Kindles, and the like-is enormously useful. Libraries provide consumers with no-risk ways to try new media. “Libraries are key to the reading ecosystem. As Maja Thomas, former senior vice president at Hachette Book Group put it in this interview: ![]() And libraries are in fact really important for readers, for a multitude of reasons that should really be seen as a bonus to both writers and publishers. ![]() Libraries have to balance what percent of their budget they’re going to spend on ebooks versus paper books and other materials, and publishers screwing around with the way ebooks work doesn’t really help with that. As of 2015, 94% of libraries had an ebook collection, with a median size of 14,397. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |