Sunday 10th June at 5.03pm
(repeated Wednesday 13th June at 9.30pm)

e-books

This week's mousemat is devoted to e-books and the relationship between literature and the internet. For centuries the book has been the only means of disseminating information and literary creativity. Libraries have been the traditional storehouses of all human knowledge. But does the digitisation of existing works and the spread of e-books mean that the internet will soon be the ultimate, universally accessible archive of every word ever published? And what effect will this revolution have on what we read and how we read it?

Joining Adam to discuss these issues are Peter Finch, Chief Executive of the Welsh literature promotion agency Academi, Victor Keegan, Technology Correspondent for the Guardian and Andrew Green, Librarian at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

During the programme we also meet children's author Chris Williams as he visits pupils at Ysgol Gwynedd in Flint to talk about his new e-book The Stories of Rhys and we get our hands on the iLiad an e-reader which its Ruthin-based UK distributor, Peter Blanchard, believes is the breakthrough in providing an alternative to the traditional paperback or hardback book.

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