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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
.My modest proposal for any lurking Simon & Schuster executive is to negotiate with Overdrive a requirement that borrowing their eBooks require some sort of physical checkout in a public library building. This would allow them to sell to libraries without losing the patronage of convenience-minded eBook buyers. And with the public continuing to actually go to libraries, it would help maintain taxpayer, and donor, library support.
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This is indeed what publishers in the UK have already proposed:
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/pa...k-lending.html