Jessica Moyer – Audio books, ebooks, & online reading impact on library services & collections

July 10, 2009 · Posted in ALA Annual 2009

All the ways you can read stuff that is not in a book anymore – ipod touch, amazon kindle, has its own wireless network and email address, eink technology, biggest group of kindle owners over the age of 50, price dropped last week to $300
Audiobooks – not just bcds and cassette, but need to deal with drm and compatibility issues, overdrive still doesn’t work with Mac,
Playaway – great for
Kindle plays audible,com files
Over 52% of users get their audiobooks fro a library
Do you think the kindle is a step on the way to something bigger and better? Discussing more linked in content – Jessica – no, she thinks all of that could come to the kindle

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