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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
... to require a physical visit to the library.
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Sure, make it as inconvenient as possible, that's gonna help. I like to get my books legally as much as the next guy, but if my library ever introduced a policy like that I couldn't guarantee I won't check out other, hassle-free (if less legal) venues.
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Since most future book sales will be on-line, the physical visit requirement would indeed make borrowing harder than buying, and thus prevent a boatload of sales cannibalization.
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Here's an idea, why not make them
read it on the premises? No takin' books home, no Siree, just imagine how many additional sales that must bring ...
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HOWEVER, what I've learned since then is that library patrons hate the idea.
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You better believe it.
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I hope that some libraries and publishers will be brave enough to risk small-scale physical-visit-required experiments
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Not going to fly, and certainly not if only a small proportion will experiment with it. I for one have access to multiple libraries and would switch in a heartbeat.
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Someone may say that the government should just force the publishers to sell eBooks to libraries.
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Hear, hear! Would you believe that despite this being the fact in much of Europe the book world still hasn't gone under?