Bilbary E-Books Set To Reconnect Publishers With Libraries
One of the vital connections between public libraries and the big publishers has been lost during the E-Book revolution, and one new British company wants to get it back
I spoke recently with Tim Coates, a veteran bookseller and the founder of Bilbary, a new Web-based consumer E-Book library and retail bookstore, to ask him what made his company different
from other e-book providers.
“We work with public libraries, which distinguishes us from what some of the
larger more commercial operations are doing,” he told me in a Skype interview.
“The origin lies with work that I’ve done over many years with public
libraries – and the statistic that more reading takes place even nowadays of books
which have come from the public library service than come from the
bookstores.”
Well over 2 billion books are read from the collections in public libraries
every year, according to Coates, while the number of books read from those
bought in bookstores is 1 to 1.2 billion.
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