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Originally Posted by Blossom
You mean alienate thousands of Kindle users from using the library? Why would you want to do that?  |
It'd end up as a good way for libraries to reduce the money they spend on e-books, since the libraries would see a significantly lower amount of checkouts of e-books.
Given the strained resources of virtually all libraries these days, lower demand would mean that they would almost certainly cause libraries to shift a portion of their few $$$ from ebooks into other areas, like print books, audio/video materials or learning programs.
Either jswolf thinks libraries spend too much of their limited funds on ebooks, or that idea wasn't thought through to its likely real-world outcome.