Thread: What about national libraries?
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Old 02-15-2012, 09:03 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn View Post
National libraries like British Library, Library of Congress, Royal Libraries in Scandinavian countries etc have a special obligation to accumulate everything published in a certain country. Their collections are simply enormous. Don't they also have that obligation with regard to electronic publishing? Wouldn't that imply that they can lend e-books to the general public? After all, it is their taxes that pay for the collections.
The BL is taking this question seriously, and it now has over 65K books online: http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/3133...rs-free-ebooks
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