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Originally Posted by leebase
Pretty much. An ebook doesn't wear out. An ebook file is limitless. One file is all it takes for everyone in the entire world to read.
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Same with a pbooks. Once a pbooks is out in the wild, anyone can make unlimited number of copies.
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... "But what about the good of society?" I believe that notion is not applicable to: "man, I want to read the latest book, but so do 10,000 other people and now I'm having to wait....meanwhile, there are 10 million books in the library I could read while I wait".
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Rhetoric. I'm guessing not a single library in my state has 10,000,000 books. Never mind 10,000,000 ebooks.
And I have yet to see a wait list of 10,000.
My library (which is part of a state consortium of probably 30 towns), has 8500 ebooks. How many of those are in a particular genre, how many for adults? For children? For teens. So let's pick adults. 30 towns * 10,000 people = 300,000 people. So we have 3000 ebooks for 300,000 people. I'm guessing my local library has a lot more than 3000 pbooks sitting on it's shelves wlone. Why don't you think they buy more ebooks? Too expensive and too restrictive.
What is needed is a more reasonable model for libraries.
Let's not forget why we have copyright in the U.S. If the authors don't want to uphold their end of the agreement, ...