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Originally Posted by asjogren
I imagine a deal with Amazon.com might piss-off the Publishers hugely....
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How very adult of you.
FYI, there are already examples of school libraries which loan out Kindles, e.g. Cushing Academy got rid of most of its paper books in 2009, and loans out books either via 70 Kindles or to the student's laptops. Obviously this works out smoothly with PD books; it's not clear to me if they use Overdrive, commercial purchases or some other process.
However, fundamentally this doesn't change anything. Ultimately organizations like libraries aren't terribly interested in sneaking around restrictions like a couple of kids stealing a piece of candy from the corner store.
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Originally Posted by asjogren
It is really hard to win a PR battle against Public Libraries.
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5 years ago it was inconceivable that local governments would pick on teachers, police and firefighters. Today, well....