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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
The libray buys the book and gives everyone a chance to read it. Some have to wait, but in a fair way. No one can take their place in the line by force or theft.
Why have money if you can erase it.?
Helen
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So you imagine that the library is not actually purchasing a copy of the ebook but rather a license (for an individual viewer at an individual time?) The reason I get so upset about library holds is that there is no need for them when we are dealing with ebooks. The founding fathers would be outraged if they had to wait for an ebook IMO.
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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
And you are sure of this because?
Lets keep in mind that we are talking about publishing in the era before computers. Publishing books in the 19th century was not nearly as easy as uploading a file to a POD printer.
If printers weren't sure they could make money, it would have been questionable whether they would have taken the chance.
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Bill
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I doubt they were ever sure they were going to make money on a book, but I agree that the costs for printing were very high back then. Anyway, today printing/uploading is easy once you pay for the tech to do so and making copies is simple.
A million monkeys uploading to a million different sites will eventually upload the works of Shakespeare or something.