Re:Future of the library - Seth Godin
by JoelSutherland on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:46AM
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I might be doing this wrong, but Google Books appears to have well over 100k books with "Chess" in the title and Google has only been at it for a few years:
But this is hardly the key point. The traditional library will always have advantages over the inevitable library of the future. It won't get replaced when all of those advantages have been overcome, it will be when enough of those advantages have been overcome for enough people.
Godin isn't anti-book, he just believes ebooks will win. Given how he has made his money, it's probably not something he would prefer.
http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=intitle...
But this is hardly the key point. The traditional library will always have advantages over the inevitable library of the future. It won't get replaced when all of those advantages have been overcome, it will be when enough of those advantages have been overcome for enough people.
Godin isn't anti-book, he just believes ebooks will win. Given how he has made his money, it's probably not something he would prefer.