Here’s a thought from The Bookseller

Michael Holdsworth gives a ‘provocative vision of publishing’s future’.

In an article in The Bookseller’s London Book Fair Daily issue for Tuesday, 17 April 2007, Michael Holdsworth says the following (amongst other things), which may be pertinent to the current debate on students and textbooks:

‘For many students, information that is not online simply does not exist, to the dismay of their sooo-last-century professors. The library is ignored since the chances are that the book will be out on loan, mis-shelved, or will have had the chapter razored out; and the bookshop, where the right coursebooks are perceived to be too expensive or rarely available, is shunned. Time-rich and money-poor, the younger generation surf their always-on broadband to find roughly what they need--and preferably for free (that is, ripped-off or in the public domain).’

Do other people feel that Holdsworth has read the situation correctly? Or is he just being provocative, as suggested in the article’s lead-in?

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Posted on 24 Apr 2007 around 3pm by