Yet at Microsoft there seems to be little doubt that nearly all newspapers will be producing their last printed editions even before 2020. As a major vehicle for the mass distribution of books and journals to readers, libraries have stood the test of time and met the challenges of changing technologies and formats. The library market is, historically, and continues to be a critical one for book and journal publishers. The author compares the concept and service features of libraries with those of e-book developers and explores the issues raised for the future relationship between libraries and electronic books. Erasing the Memory Of Cyber Media's Birth Roger Fidler , Kent State University Today, we often hear the litany that digital is better and digital is forever, but in reality digital is neither inherently better nor forever when it comes to the preservation of documents.
Digital documents are, in fact, far more fragile than paper.
And therein lies one of the fundamental problems that afflicts nearly all forms of cyber media-a progressive and irretrievable loss of memory that, in a very real sense, is the digital equivalent to Alzheimer's disease. In response to a report from the European Parliament on the future of print media, Van Dusseldorp was asked by the European Journalism Centre and the European Commission to examine some of the ways that European newspapers have so far adopted the Internet and to learn what areas of concern might need public attention. Texas Board of Education Schools have experimented with computer-assisted educational programs for two decades with mixed results. Now, the Texas Board of Education is giving serious consideration to a proposal to begin replacing traditional printed textbooks with electronic books that can be read on laptop computers or other portable display devices. Christie has championed this idea for several years.