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Re: ALA MidWinter - RMG's Ninth Annual Presidents' Seminar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thom Gillespie)
Thu Dec 3 20:11:40 1998
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 13:42:38 -0500
From: Thom Gillespie <thom@copper.ucs.indiana.edu>
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On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Brian @ RMG Consultants wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
> NEWS RELEASE RMG Consultants, Inc. November 24, 1998
>
> "WILL E-BOOKS 'CHANGE THE GAME' FOR LIBRARIES?"
> is the topic of
> RMG's Ninth Annual Presidents' Seminar: The View from the Top
This might be the view from the top but if they would look up rather than
down they would realize that 'the game' is what will change the game for
libraries.
In Nunnberg's 'End of the Book' book it is pointed out that in terms of
what entertainment people spend money on the rankings are:
TV
Computer Games
Film
Books
The computer game wasn't on the list 5 years ago and the 'book' hasn't
been in first place since 1967.
E books are like the illuminated manuscript in 1460 and will only succeed
as a game so it means that 'the game' is the thing to be looking at not
better screened versions of the Palm.
E Book? I'd say 'Ehh' ... book? I'd rather play 'Hamlet on the Holodeck'
than read it.
Thoughts?
--Thom
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