#22 Audiobooks (Books 2.0)

I’m not sure yet about downloadable audiobooks and ebooks. I think it will still be a while before they take off. Looking around the world ebook fair site I don’t think they’d do too much business with your general library visitor. All their titles seem to be quite old. If they had best sellers, and more recent and popular authors then I could see its use being more likely than it is now. Also, I didn’t think the children’s book on the site would be of too much interest either. I think once more recent titles become available as ebooks it will still probably take some time before Australian content became a part of the site. Maybe some of the classic fairy tales and kids stories would be alright but I don’t really think ebooks will be a big part of libraries services for a while yet. I can’t really picture kids being read stories from a computer screen as they lay in bed falling asleep. I think ebooks will become popular when the option of printed books isn’t as available as it is now. I know that ebooks are supposed to be cheaper, and you can buy special screens to read them from etc. but I still think they’re a long way off.