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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I haven't seen anybody suggest that libraries should be able to buy one copy of an eBook and then loan it out to an infinite number of simultaneous users. What libraries actually want to do is buy X copies of an eBook and then lend out "X" copies at the same time (via DRM).
Previously, they could do that with any pBook that they wanted due to the first sale doctrine. Why shouldn't they be allowed to do the same thing with eBooks?
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I haven't seen anyone in
this thead say that libraries should be able to buy one copy of an eBook and then loan it out to an infinite number of simultaneous users. But the OP saying
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At reasonable rates and WITHOUT ridiculous usage limitations?
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without defining ridiculous implied this to me.
I thought that libraries are able to buy X copies of an eBook and then lend out "X" copies at the same time already. Is this not the case? How else do they manage to have several copies available on many ebooks?
Helen