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Originally Posted by Quoth
The licencing is too restrictive, though there should be a per loan royalty, like on paper books in UK and Ireland. OTOH, the Internet Archive making up its own rules doesn't work either.
Here the libraries can only buy paper books from the publisher. They can't shelve donated or S/H books. That's overly restrictive. The small royalty per loan isn't.
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The specific case in the Ted talk was that the text books in question were publicly funded and the university had to license the ebooks back. And their solution was to work with a publisher that makes publicly funded publications free access ebooks so that anyone who wants to read said text books can do so without any account or fees.