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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Of course, we also run into the real question of this whole debate, i.e. what is the core purpose of public libraries, and to what extent is the modern never ending copyright compatible with that. If copyright was still at 28 years, then much of the issues involving libraries and ebooks would be moot.
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How so? People want access to "in demand" books, music and movies. If a library was simply a source of 28yr old and older material, I doubt many people would be satisfied.
The wrinkle ebooks add to the already long standing issues....is that it is (or could be) every bit as convenient to check out and read an ebook from the library as it is to buy and read an ebook from Amazon (or any other commercial place).
As such, MORE people would be incentivized to use their library than buy a book. This is, I would imagine, the reason publishers are making ebooks more expensive for libraries....to cut down on the substitution of sales for library check outs.