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Originally Posted by carld
ONE publisher for now, but it's still a publisher restriction, and we don't know yet if it's going to be picked up by other publishers. Besides, you insisted that there was NO EVIDENCE of publishers restricting lending, when there clearly is.
Are you sure about the author agreement thing? Do most publishing contracts these days cover geographic distribution of ebooks inside the US? Internationally yes, but I've never heard of such a thing domestically.
And local tax policies have nothing to do with geo restrictions placed on ebooks by publishers.
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There is no evidence of publishers moving to put GREATER restrictions on library lending than what now exists, is what I should have said.
The facts are:
1. MOST publishers have no restrictions on ebook lending ( and there are thousands of publishers)
2. ONE publisher limits the number of lends per book.
3. TWO major publishers don't permit ebook lending of their properties, but are waiting to negotiate global agreements for library lending.
3. AFAIK, ALL of these publishers allow lending privileges on their pbooks- which are most of the books any library lends.
All of that does not constitute a movement by "publishers" to limit library lending-quite the contrary.
If you cannot understand why some local jurisdictions may not extend ebook lending privileges to non-tax payers..... I can't help you.