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Old 02-05-2010, 04:30 PM   #88
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Originally Posted by rmm200 View Post
Can anyone come up with an example of a public library in America that has a MacMillan EBook available for loan?

I was sure MacMillan had ways of preventing this.
I said the libraries don't have restrictions on what they can buy--by which I meant, legal/contractual restrictions--not that everyone will sell to them.

Just because you're allowed to purchase it doesn't mean it's available. And Macm has decided not to make their ebooks available for lending. (I tend to think this is a violation of the first sale doctrine, and would love to see a clever programming house figure out their own DRM method and start loaning out Macmillan ebooks, just to watch the sparks fly.)
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