Paper books, audiobooks, eaudiobooks - the world is definitely changing. Not long time ago our library introduced a new collection - Talking Books on Cds. Customers loved them and we were proud to offer this new great collection. At the same time, in the article form "The Bookseller" magazine, Sept.14, 2007 you can read about the Japanese schoolgirl with the "customised ketai" - "a tiny slender supercomputer with a miniature screen" that turns mobile phone into a portable library". Students download books, comics and read them on a way to school. When asked about the paper books - the answer is - "paper books are uncool".
Will everything be on-line in a future? How ebooks will change the publishing industry, libraries, bookstores, education? Technology advancing with the new portable devices, there is talk about the electronic paper, some libraries overseas offer to download books from their websites, with the termination of a loan period, publishers sell ebooks off its websited. Is there a common standard for the ebooks that will state on a market or the variety of e-readers and compatable formats only makes it even more confusing. Future will tell.
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