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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Now that's the part of the question that becomes difficult for me to answer, because everyone has different reading tastes.
Where possible I will distribute my possessions including my ebooks whilst still alive. For the remainder what I'd rather do is give my elibrary to a licensed charity (or charities) and hopefully that will be legalised. Therefore the elibrary could be distributed to different age groups and reading tastes.
Should I die prior to their distribution then my Will will say the same.
Well, that's the plan.  |
A good plan, but another reason impeding the legalization of ebook transfer perhaps. I think that millions of baby boomers have eBooks these days and if even a small proportion of us donate them, the libraries would have no need to buy backlist books. Good for the libraries, but bad for the authors/publishers perhaps. It is a complex situation.
Libraries where I live do not catalogue donated books generally, just put them on a sale rack cheaper than most thrift stores. An acquaintance donated several books that were valued in the $200-$500 range to the City library and was dismayed to come across one of them a month later priced at 50 cents. Needless to say he paid the 50 cents and raised quite a commotion demanding to know what happened to the rest. He was told they probably sold for a $1.
He said he was assured they would go into a limited collection whatever that is, but was told later that that was never done. Donated books were always just sold. They did not have time to evaluate or catalogue them and it would cut down on their budget if they entered donated books into the catalogue.
So what will a library do with your ebooks? They would have to sell them online probably which would set off a furor, and possibly rightly so. Chances are they will do nothing. Bureaucracy in non-action.
Helen