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Keep Your Cataloguer Happy

By admin

This is from O’Reilly’s TOC Tools of Change for Publishng blog:

Metadata, Not E-Books, Can Save Publishing…
by Nick Ruffilo

“Some statistics:
* There are roughly 230MM adults in the US.
* US Literacy rate is 99% – leaving 227.7MM adults in the US who can read.
* 28% of US adults are avid (5+ hours/week) readers [Verso] – 64MM Avid reader
* 20% of book purchasing happened online [PW 2007] This has grown, but is still under 30% (have heard via word-of-mouth from some book stats people but cannot quote them).”

If only everyone could use library metadata and it wasn’t locked up.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).