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Digital Books and Flying Cars

Wednesday, June 5, 2012

2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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In an incredibly short period of time, control of the publishing industry has largely moved out of the hands of publishers.  This organizational disruption has many precedents but occurs at a time of tremendous technological change, with content production and distribution shifting rapidly from physical to digital modes, with concomitant economic upheaval.



As publishers try to make strategic decisions in this maelstrom of change, historical relationships, such as those involving libraries, are trammeled by strategic re-prioritizations.  Publishers fear the simultaneous commodification of complex authoring tools, the rise of self publishing systems, and the development of internet platforms by Apple, Amazon, and Google.  And, in response, publishers attempt to seize control over pricing and distribution in as many digital sectors as possible.  It's as if Toyota suddenly had to respond to home-3d printed family aerocars as a mainstream transportation.


Join your colleagues for a discussion with Peter Brantley, the director of the Bookserver Project at the Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based not-for-profit library, and a co-founder of the Open Book Alliance, to discuss the wild and chaotic publishing environment of today, and why the actions of publishers are rational, even as traditional publishing and library transition a wrenching epoch.  A few conjectures about adaptive publisher and library responses will be offered.





Date

Wednesday, June 5, 2012



Time

2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.



Place

Library of Congress

Madison Building

West Dining Room

101 Independence Ave., SE

Washington, DC 20540


Metro/Directions

Capitol South (Orange/

Blue Lines) - For directions, please visit: http://www.loc.gov/loc/visit/directions.html



Sponsor
FEDLINK Education Working Group



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