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Originally Posted by Rizla
Noimp is absolutely right and you and the other guy have proved him right. You are compartmentalizing. Obviously Amazon is selling the commodity of books under the KU program. It is double-think to say otherwise, which is, I suppose, a form of compartmentalization. At it's most generous, it could be characterized as hair-splitting. But I think you need to see the overarching issue  |
So, if Amazon is selling books under the KU program, then libraries are also selling books. Is that correct? In both instances the books are being loaned to the user but the user does not get to keep them. In many countries (although not in the US) authors even get paid when their books are borrowed from the Public library (kind of like they do when someone borrows a book through the KU program).
I'd really be interested to hear whether or not libraries are also (obviously) selling books to their patrons, and if they aren't, then why is what they are doing different from what Amazon is doing? (...and please don't say that it's different because libraries are free...many many libraries charge people from out of state/out of country for access to materials)
Shari