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Originally Posted by Laridae
I say take the deal; if it's more expensive well, just suck it up - hopefully this can be offset by other benefits - less handling and storage of pbooks, and so on.
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Libraries are not the text equivalent of video rental stores or arcades. They weren't created so that poor people would have access to the new trendy entertainment; they were created as repositories of history and culture. Renting books for 2 years makes that impossible.
Libraries should reject this offer; if Macmillan wants to rent books to multiple users, they can use their own resources to provide that service.
I'm looking forward to more libraries buying ebook readers, loading them up with a dozen books each, and loaning those out instead of dealing with Overdrive.
A library can have 6 readers dedicated to each Kindle account; could get 6 Nooks or Sonys dedicated to other accounts, and just buy ebooks, and could have multiple Kindle (or other) accounts, each with 6 devices. They'd just have to keep track of which books are on which device at a time.