Traveling for extended periods with an adequate supply of reading materials is problematic. We used to buy used paperbacks by the dozen, shedding them along the way as we read them.
With e-readers we were looking forward to having many books in one place. We will see how that works out when we get an iPad 2.
This story is a potential buzz kill though. What if we got e-books at the library? Cool!
And of course, whenever something is fun, one has to ask "what if everyone did that?" at least that's what they ask you at a local beach if you want to take a stone home. Soon the earth would become unbalanced and we all fly off into space. But that's another story.
Apparently Harper-Collins is preparing to fight the final battle, when everyone is getting free e-books at the library and they can no longer sell them. An annual re-liscensing fee. That right, not only is information wanting to be free, it should be kept in perpetual bondage.
Some librarians, in fits of conservative market lashback, are walking away from the publisher to hasten their end vision.
Publisher starts annual e-book licensing for libraries, attempts blood extraction from stone
ENGADGET | MARCH 15, 2011
http://pulsene.ws/15qNR
Public libraries are en vogue again now that e-readers and e-books are so popular, and publishers are wary of the trend. To ...
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