Reading about eReading this week June 3, 2013

Book Publishers and Libraries: Historic Partners Facing a Disruptive Technology

Penguin Dabbles in Book Retail With Penguin Book Truck and Pushcart

Hachette to Record Audiobooks for Blind Library Readers

In the Digital Age, What Becomes of the Library?

BEA 2013: The E-book Boom Years

Total U.S. physical book market declined 9.27% last year, based on unit sales tracked thru Bookscan –@draccah #bea13

— Jane Friedman (@JaneFriedman) May 29, 2013

#DigitalBook13 #BEA13 Malcolm Gladwell: "What the younger generation is interested in is novelty…(they're) not a 'digital generation.'"

— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) May 29, 2013

#DigitalBook13 #BEA13 @iSchoolTravis "It is no longer valuable to memorize information" but to know how to find what you need.

— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) May 29, 2013

Kingwell brings the hermetic hermeneutics of po-mo critical theory to bear on developments in e-reading and comes away—no great surprise—with the conclusion that “the current debates about the future of reading are merely the welcome death throes of individualism.”