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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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I think that the system where you don't have to go into the physical library to borrow the book will seriously reduce public support for libraries.* 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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* If you don't believe this, and are an EPUB person, sit with a US Kindle owner as they check out a public library book, and watch how going to Amazon's web site, with its advertising, is part of the process. And Amazon, with its pay-for Prime lending library, directly competes with public libraries."
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Steve E. this is a FANTASTIC idea! I still enjoy walking into and sitting down at my local library. I would be willing to support and pay for it to reman open. In my view it is a concrete representation that reading, and so learning or entertainment, are available to
any citizen, who chooses to enter.
This is an amazing concept the "somewhat" equalizing of access to libraries. Especially those that also have pcs for use along with music, dvd, VHS, legal references, and on and on.