A2: Library

Publishers Weekly includes an email interview with Josie Parker and Eli Neiburger of the Ann Arbor District Library. The interview focuses on AADL’s “innovative, analytical, and provocative approach to e-books and next generation library service.” Here’s Neiburger’s answer to a question on whether e-book rentals and purchases can co-exist: “It seems that the library market is about the only place that publishers feel they have some power to set terms right now, so we’re bearing the brunt of boardroom anxiety. But we know in libraries that our superusers are also publishing’s best customers, and that borrowing does not supplant buying, no matter the relative friction. It’s up to libraries to make deals that make sense for their communities and move the relationships with rightsholders forward, towards greater value and sustainability, not to chase the shiny thing and assume it leads to the future.” [Source]