Brussels, 20 September 2011 - Every year, hundreds of thousands of new
titles enter the European book market - but only a few turn into real
bestsellers. A good number of them eventually go out of commerce as
publishers cannot maintain the costs of marketing and storing books in
print if they do not continue to sell well. While publishers are
bringing more books back into commerce through e-books and print on
demand, many titles still remain in the collections and archives of
Europe's libraries.
This situation is to change soon as Michel Barnier, European
Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services, presided today over
the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in which libraries,
publishers, authors, and their collecting societies have agreed to a set
of Key Principles that will give European libraries and similar cultural
institutions the possibility to digitise and make available on line
out-of-commerce books and learned journals which are part of their
collections.
.http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1055&form
at=HTML&aged=0&language=en&guiLanguage=en
John Winrow
Assistant Curator
National Museums Liverpool
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