eBooks Vs. Print: What do you read?
Watch Video @ http://www.newschannel9.com/news/top-stories/stories/ebooks-vs-print-do-you-read-9360.shtml Times are a changin' or, you might say... turning a page. Libraries say electronic books are opening up a new chapter. Mary Jane Spehar is the manager at Chattanooga's Main Library. She says "things are becoming electronically available. The databases have taken the place of standard reference sources like the World Book. We love them because you can't have them overdue. Patrons don't ever incur fines. So there are a lot of advantages to them." With tons of spare copies from the same title, the Chattanooga library uses a quarterly sale to help clean their slate. Chairman of Friends of Library, William Sundquist, tell us that "these are recycled books from the library system or also what we do is have a lot of people donate throughout the years." Linda Creek makes a point to come out to as many book sales as possible and lately she's noticed a trend. "There are a ton of good deals here. I think there are more books here this year."
The Chairman caught up with us at the sale. While eBooks are trendy, Sunquist says the good deals will go to a cause. "Normally the books start at .50 cents and go all the way up to two dollars." And trendy or not, some shoppers say there's nothing like a good ole' paperback. "There's just something about holding a book in my hands that I enjoy," says Creek. And whether it's print or ebooks, "the important thing about a library is that we provide access to people to whatever people want to read. So the key thing for us is that if people want to read on e-readers. We got that covered," says Spehar. If you haven't been able to drop by the sale, organizers want you to know that there's still time to swing by the Northgate shopping center! The book sale will continue until March 1st at 9 pm.
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Watch Video @ http://www.newschannel9.com/news/top-stories/stories/ebooks-vs-print-do-you-read-9360.shtml Times are a changin' or, you might say... turning a page. Libraries say electronic books are opening up a new chapter. Mary Jane Spehar is the manager at Chattanooga's Main Library. She says "things are becoming electronically available. The databases have taken the place of standard reference sources like the World Book. We love them because you can't have them overdue. Patrons don't ever incur fines. So there are a lot of advantages to them." With tons of spare copies from the same title, the Chattanooga library uses a quarterly sale to help clean their slate. Chairman of Friends of Library, William Sundquist, tell us that "these are recycled books from the library system or also what we do is have a lot of people donate throughout the years." Linda Creek makes a point to come out to as many book sales as possible and lately she's noticed a trend. "There are a ton of good deals here. I think there are more books here this year."
The Chairman caught up with us at the sale. While eBooks are trendy, Sunquist says the good deals will go to a cause. "Normally the books start at .50 cents and go all the way up to two dollars." And trendy or not, some shoppers say there's nothing like a good ole' paperback. "There's just something about holding a book in my hands that I enjoy," says Creek. And whether it's print or ebooks, "the important thing about a library is that we provide access to people to whatever people want to read. So the key thing for us is that if people want to read on e-readers. We got that covered," says Spehar. If you haven't been able to drop by the sale, organizers want you to know that there's still time to swing by the Northgate shopping center! The book sale will continue until March 1st at 9 pm.
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