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Unfortunately, here in Minnesota, the largest county library system - Hennepin County - decided as of 1/2/2012, AFTER ALLOWING RECIPROCAL BORROWING for years, to ONLY ALLOW RESIDENTS OF THE COUNTY TO BORROW E-BOOKS.
SUPPOSEDLY, this decision was made only after "much discussion", and solely because they wanted to "protect these resources for our tax-paying residents". My guess is this narrow-minded, parochial policy will shortly spread to every other county of any size here, and pretty soon only people that live on THIS side of the street will be allowed to have an ebook from Dakota County, and only those on THAT side of the street will be able to get one from Ramsey County, and borrowers from WHEREVER they live will see reduced service and a smaller selection.
Personally, if somebody puts Amazon and B&N into a Netflix-style service, and charges what Netflix does for movies ($8/month), I'm all over it. If it works for movies it fer-sher ought to work for books.
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