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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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Come on...you KNOW there's a HUGE difference. But let's pretend there wasn't. Even if you really could create copies of paper books....you can't distribute them globally in a heart beat, cost free like you can an ebook.
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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.
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The point is that there are FAR more books available at any library that someone can read in a lifetime. It's no hardship whatsoever that the most popular recent released books have a waiting list.
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What is needed is a more reasonable model for libraries.
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We have a reasonable model. A library buys a certain amount of books. People wait for the most popular titles. Meanwhile there are lots of others one can read.
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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, ...
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Books are made available for a price to libraries. Same as always. Libraries do not have infinite budgets. Same as always.