D-Day!

It was the day that was supposed to change the world of publishing, the world of books forever! D-Day! Dan day, that is. Dan Brown. And so, a couple of weeks on, how was it for you, dear reader? Did you have borrowers breaking down your doors to download "The Lost Symbol"? Were they rushing in to plug in their new Sony Readers, while your book stock sat wilting on the shelves? No, me neither. We have (at last count) sixty reservations. And rather fewer copies. So people will either have to wait patiently or go and buy it along with their groceries at Waitasmorritescobury's.
We have yet to get rid of all our cassette audiobooks - a new MP3 collection has been treated with suspicion in some quarters, enthusiasm in others. So what, fellow librarians, are we for? Do we slavishly follow the New Book World, as per the Bookseller and the literary chit-chat columns, or do we do what we do best - look over our spectacles (metaphorical or otherwise) and do a bit of cross-referencing before we decide that it is all over for the book. I won't light my bonfire just yet!