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Originally Posted by kennyc
Mp3 audio books are not under discussion and I'd not class them as digital downloads. We're talking about ebooks, please stay on topic.
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I emphatically disagree. It's totally on topic. Libraries include in their digital collection, books, music, movies and more in several formats. The end user lending agreements are typically the same or very similar, and in many cases, it's the very same infratructure that lends them all.
The point under discussion was that if there is no technological enforcement of the check out period, wouldn't everybody just start stealing library ebooks, keeping them forever?
Evidence to the contrary is that plenty of what the library lends has no technological enforcement in the first place and the library has no problem with that.
And as for audiobooks not being digital downloads...WTF?
