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The revolution will begin when individuals can sell or lend their ebooks the way they can their paper books. I suspect this is purely a technology problem that will eventually be solved. If this does not happen, either because of corporate obstruction or technological complexity, I hope that some Big Bucks go into the library business. The only problem now with library ebooks is that there aren't nearly enough of them. The prices of ebooks of course HAVE to go down drastically, because there is simply no rational way to justify the high prices. The publishers (vultures) have to get that through their skulls. Libraries should be able to buy multiple copies at very low prices, and thereby serve many borrowers. This can all be done centrally, too, a la Amazon. It will happen, just a matter of time.
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