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The French bookshop opposite the new paradigm of digital distribution

My article: "Book Market, the French bookshop opposite the new paradigm of digital distribution," appeared in the first issue of E-PaperWorld magazine, November 2010 ( online at this address ).

Written in March 2010, this "paper" (sic ;-) Today is a good opportunity to gauge the speed of transformations under way for some, gestation others in the book market and, unfortunately, to complain once again delay the new portal 1001libraires.com independent bookstore (even if it is obvious that this is not the initiative alone will save the library!).

Extracts

"A profession to reinvent

Historically, after the heroic age of manuscripts, the library began to emerge with the development of printing and Masters booksellers who assumed the duties publishers. Only after the fall of the Ancien Regime and professional corporations as the different functions of printer, publisher and bookseller separate.

In 2010 he must equip the brick and mortar bookstores devices expensive to print on demand and downloads terminals, or facilitate the emergence of libraries pure players?

We're not going to record stores in our download MP3 files.

It seems that we are moving towards a mix of immersive web, cloud computing and augmented reality. The big brands are already working to virtualize their sales areas. Program: 3D modeling shops and integration bridges between city shops and online stores. Applications for iPhone, iPad, and other future reading terminals, are multiplying. Booksellers must be prepared.

Once again the center of gravity of the craft could move , and it is not excluded that during the century, the duties of librarian and bookseller merge. The noble part of the book as a mediator would be preserved in a position of manager of reader communities.

Booksellers reagents

In this context booksellers react and seek to innovate. [...]

In summary: the sustainability of the library is through regulation of the digital book market, which has been validated internationally and which falls within the current developments of trade in cultural property. It is not won.

But a century ago, in 1910, the libraries held above the counter sales. Little to do with a library in 2010. While they will in 2110, in a century? "

( Read the full online ... )
PaperWorld E-Magazine is a free digital magazine 198 pages, subtitled" The Review of Books, Tablet PCs, applications and smart media ", and directed by Eric Ray and his team . To discover and read!

Prospective Book and Edit - Lorenzo Soccavo - http://lorenzo.soccavo.free.fr