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Originally Posted by david_e
So, a library agrees to a contract without thoroughly reading it, thoroughly understanding it, or knowing what they would be receiving. Not so much bait and switch as dumb library.
As far as restricting what titles are available, lets consider it from a different perspective. If I belong to a library that shares access with other regional libraries, and, because of this, my closest or 'home' library isn't allowed to duplicate ebooks that are already held by these other libraries, ebooks I ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO, and must chose different ebooks, giving me, the patron, access to even MORE ebooks, how is this a bad thing?
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Regarding the first paragraph--if you think what was actually in the contract was clear enough, or even interpretable by a person not starting out knowing OverDrive's intent, we disagree on this.
Regarding the second paragraph--e-books are restricted, not when library patrons have access to more e-books from other libraries, but when the library accepts patrons from outside the area that provides the biggest chunk of public funding. For example, the Jefferson City Public Library accepts patrons from all of Jefferson County, but (if I understand correctly) gets the biggest chunk of its funding from Jefferson City (a small town in Jefferson County). If our e-books are restricted in this way it doesn't follow that I can check out e-books from the library of Dandridge (another small town in Jefferson County). And if I could, because the library of Dandridge also accepted patrons from outside the city of Dandridge--
they would be from the same restricted set.
What the heck good does that do me?