Digital Audio Collections
Abstract
This paper is about the possibility of libraries creating digital music
or audio collections based on the current state of the digital music industry, and in
comparison with the difficulties librarians have found in adding e-books to
collections. In comparing the e-book and digital music markets, factors such as
digital rights management (DRM) and the differences in both markets’
relationships with customers are examined. This juxtaposition suggests that
where e-books have been difficult to include in library collections because
publishers want to maintain control over their content, music publishers have had
to resign some of the control over their products because of file-sharing, and so
may work with libraries to develop these collections in a more constructive way
than e-book venders. At the end of the paper, some models are suggested for
developing these collections.
Citation
Tenter, J. (2008). Digital audio collections. Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 4, 1-15.