Thread started: Oct 11 2007, 7:49 AM EDT
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Hi,
i enjoyed the conference and found it gave me lots to consider - i can't help wondering if it's 'too late for public libraries' though.
Librarything.com may well become the next 'youtube' or 'myspace' and is building up a considerable database of readers' likes, dislikes, user profiles etc. It's approaching 300,00 members now (http://www.librarything.com/zeitgeist) - up by over 100,00 in little over a month. Surely organisations such as Amazon are waiting for the site to reach a 'critical mass' and when it does so will buy the the thing lock ,stock and barrel.
One interesting aspect of Ian Corns excellent presentation was the idea of 'prosumers'. His use of the Arctic Monkeys added emphasis to the notion. Surely most budding authors will increasingly communicate directly with there audiences and self promote/publish directly to them via web2. Here too public libraries may well find themselves out of the equation.
Just my 'two penneth', anyone agree/disagree?
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