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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Silly them, don't they realize it's far more important to protect literature from the degradation of being associated with money-grubbers from a South American river?
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Librarians do realize that allowing patron to borrow Kindle-format eBooks is more important. That's why the communities most Americans live in do offer Overdrive access. It's not a matter of boycotting, but of complaining.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
This is not a library problem per se. It's a generic "why the hell do you let them go on the internet if you're that overprotective of them" problem.
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Forcing the government to advertise television viewing, as part of the process of getting literature to the populous, isn't really an internet issue. It would be the same issue if publishers of a really popular English textbook put an ad for a television network at the end of each chapter.
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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Where can you possibly go that doesn't have ads?
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Except hidden away inside newspapers and magazines -- the library.
I'm afraid to ask this, but should libraries sell naming rights? How about if the Free Library of Philadelphia becomes the Random House Library of Philadelphia? Or Disney Library of Philadelphia? In those cases, at least the ad revenue would be going to the library instead of to a private business.
Now, if Jeff Bezos wants to become the next Andrew Carnegie in terms of making impressively large financial gifts to libraries, I won't have more complaints along this line. But the fact that we library patrons get the Amazon TV ads, while the libraries get none of the ad revenue is, to me as a taxpayer, unfair.