Cover Story: Publishers' Outlook 2012: The Industry's Next Bold Move
Is digital the future, or simply โจa growing piece of the evolving publishing landscape? Eight book executives weigh in on the path forward.
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Howard: How is UCP affected by current trends in libraries, specifically the adoption of e-books and a trend toward demand-based purchasing?
Kiely: The fact that services like ebrary, NetLibrary and others can offer a wide range of books to libraries, and the libraries only purchase them when customers use them, I think that that's a good thing in a lot of ways because it basically helps prove which books are used versus which books are not. But, at the same time, … there has to be a certain amount of serendipity as far as research is concerned. A lot of the researchers we talk to will say that being able to physically scan the shelves for books and find things that you didn't know were there is one of the key aspects of research.
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