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I don't understand why publishers are so worried about an e-book "lasting forever", when I walk into the library and see many printed books that have been there for at least 20 years! Has the library done something illegal by loaning out a printed book several hundred times and not renewing it?
The library should be more freaked over what librarians can get away with with printed books!
Then for Penguin to pull out completely of the e-book loaning circuit and HC to have a 26 loan license per copy, is ridiculous. It's insane to take something that clearly lasts longer than a printed book and put an artificual "shelf life" on it.
What if I buy an e-book and personally myself, read it a hundred times over the next 30 years? Do publishers not realize that any book, printed or not, is going to last unless extreme circumstances end a book's usability permanently?
Having Big Brother dictate to me how I use my books, and how librarians use the books THEY buy is utter senselessness. Do they want libraries to afford future new material or not? Not gonna happen if 20 years later people are still requesting to find the same material.
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