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Originally Posted by Scott Turlow in the New York Times
Now many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come in to download, but to anybody with a reading device, a library card and an Internet connection. In this new reality, the only incentive to buy, rather than borrow, an e-book is the fact that the lent copy vanishes after a couple of weeks. As a result, many publishers currently refuse to sell e-books to public libraries.
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Hello? If I borrow a paper book from the library, it disappears from my possession after a couple weeks. How does that differ from a borrowed ebook, Scott? The publishers claim to refuse to sell e-books to public libraries because library books can wear out, but ebooks never do.