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Originally Posted by leebase
It is the same as always. People want free stuff. They don't care how or why stuff should be given them for free...just that they want pretty much everything....for free.
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I'm not sure where you are coming from. I haven't heard anyone in this thread say they want it for free.
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... Publishers wouldn't have a prayer of staying in business if libraries did to them what the internet has done to the encyclopedia market. Each library buying one copy of a book and letting any number of people to read it at the same time, in perpetuity...would be the end of commercial publishing
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And your point is? Has any library done this? Proposed doing it?
If you stripped the DRM from your ebooks, made them available to everyone at the time, would the publishers go out of business? Are you going to do it?
It seems as though you are saying things just to say them.
Libraries can get free ebooks from the public domain, for other ebooks, they are willing to pay a reasonable price.
I saw on another site where the average checkout per year is 1.4 times. So 2.8 every 2 years. So you are saying that an average pbook deteriorates every 2.8 checkouts?