The question, i suppose, is are e-books going to be to paper books what
cars were to horse and buggies, virtually totally displacing them, or more
like televison has been to radio and motion pictures, by
nomeans displacing the odler media but rransforming the total media
landscape.
I think only time will tell. I do not see myself, as yet, a lot of
scholars necessarily dying to read long treatises (as opposed to scholarly
articles) electronically, but that may change, of course. I am neither a
prophet nor a son of a prophet.
Shmuel Ben-Gad,
Gelman Library,
George Washington University.
"Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity."
--Joseph Joubert
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Andrea Rapp <anrapp2...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> As I do inventory of our back "stacks," and I see all these wonderful
> turn-of-the century classics like Graetz' History of the Jews, a set of
> Scrolls: Essays on Jewish History and Literature and Kindred Subjects, by
> C. Deutch, or Stanley's History of the Jewish Church--and all the
> others--I'm sure you know the ones I mean-- I have to wonder--will
> researchers want to consult these anymore? They're out of copyright, so
> will Google Book Project be what all the young researchers use for such
> works? In a few more years, will there be a point in libraries having
> these volumes? I don't know the answer and would like to hear from those
> who work in research insitututions.
> Andrea Rapp
> Wise Temple, Cincinnati
> Andrea Rapp
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