07-17-2012, 06:11 AM | #1 | |
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UK to Review eBook Lending
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07-17-2012, 08:22 AM | #2 |
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No readers in the taskforce, either.
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07-17-2012, 08:49 AM | #3 |
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Why should we pay to borrow an ebook over a physical book?
Hasn't the library already paid for the erbook? Sounds like even less people will be using libraries if this is implemeted. Perhaps that's what the government, publishers, Authors want.. I wouldn't at all be surprised. |
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I wouldn't mind paying a small fee to check out an ebook, as long as I didn't have to wait because 100 other people are in "line" lol!!
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The small fee idea seems less troublesome than the physical visit requirement. What possible reason is there to require someone to traipse to the library, during certain hours, when the technology exists to make that unnecessary? It's stupid.
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And the extra fee, IMO, is just as onerous as the requirement for physical checkouts. |
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There's no reason why both systems couldn't coexist As long as the instant checkout isn't a jump the queue system, it should be a separate billed system. seeing as i'm already paying taxes for libraries, i don't feel like paying for books twice. Last edited by danskmacabre; 07-17-2012 at 11:06 AM. |
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07-17-2012, 11:25 AM | #8 |
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There is no way to be able to use a library computer to borrow an ePub eBook with DRM. No way to tie it to the users Adobe account. So this is going to fail before it gets started.
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07-17-2012, 12:07 PM | #10 |
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There is really no qualitative difference between a bought ebook and a borrowed ebook. If it's just as easy for me to borrow a book, and just as good, why would I ever buy any?
It seems obvious that publishers and writers would be concerned about that. Physical library books reach out to the demographic that can't easily buy books; the people with more time and less money: the young, the old, and the unemployed. Ebooks don't really discriminate in that way. If anything, the public purse and the publishers and authors are subsidising people like me, who have jobs and disposable income (or, okay, in my case, mainly access to credit.) |
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The same can be said for paper books; yet libraries have co-existed with B&M book stores.
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07-17-2012, 01:24 PM | #12 |
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So let me test my understanding:
The people for whom the ability to access library ebooks online would benefit most - namely the ill and the disabled - are going to be forced to either physically visit a library for a digital download, or else use possibly limited funds in order to borrow a library book in the format that is the most usable for them. |
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Hmmm. A non starter when our Library service is being stripped to the bone. When my local Library closes it will be 36 mile round trip to the nearest remaining one. Totally impracticable. Someone has not thought this through.
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