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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy
When Overdrive started its in-library computers, I thought at the time that they'd phase out at-home borrowing. The publishers want control of the "gratification" (or convenience, if you prefer) market; I'd say there may be a two-tier system where some books are going to have to be downloaded (or checked out for later download) in-house only. If you can't/won't do that, you'll have to buy it. That's what "friction" is all about.
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I have thought and still think that the track the publishers desire to take puts them in direct and unavoidable conflict with US disabilities laws, and that no amount of money paid through lobbyists will keep them from taking a drubbing as this is forced from behind closed doors and into the public square.
The publishers are holding a losing hand, there in no redeal, and all bluffs will be called.