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Originally Posted by eschwartz
By "sharing" do you mean criminal activity, commonly known as "petty theft" or "piracy"?
If I may make a suggestion -- MobileRead has a very strong anti-piracy policy. I would try to avoid sounding like I approved of blatant copyright infringement.
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By sharing means anything legit that one can do with print books should be possible with eBooks as well, for example: library sharing items with their members
, inter library loan, or you have seen two member swap their books which is not a bad thing. I am falling short of a good example but there will be many permutations not easy in these eBook distribution systems
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Is this something new? But in the case of libraries, that isn't actually a problem. The books should be bound to a management system, otherwise how do you connect books to patrons? How do you end the checkout?
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Yes, ebooks are bound to a management system and when the management company goes out of business, ebooks from the shelf will disappear overnight, something not good for libraries that relied on long term archiving of literature, which made finding rare books possible.
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I thought we were talking about libraries? Where do schools come in????
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I am not just talking about Public libraries, there is library inside college campus and schools.