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Streaming? I spend a large portion of my readng time on public transportation, or wating in a Dr office, etc. That is really the dumbest idea I have ever heard. Makes the convenience of a pbook sound good, huh?!
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We may be talking at cross-purposes? Are you proposing that they should allow unlimited lending, and pay a fee corresponding to what was actually borrowed, rather than agree a maximum number of simultaneous loans in advance? That strikes me as financially extremely risky for the library, because they wouldn't know in advance what their actual expenditure was going to be.
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I can see the benefits of the Swedish system for the consumer, but one Harry Potter-like "best-seller" available as an eBook could be a financial catastrophe for the library system.
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I don't know about the correlation between sales and loans in the UK but if it's like here I doubt it would brake the back of the libraries, besides they don't make Harry Potter available for lending, do they? I know, just an example for illustrative purposes. The reason they implemented the restrictions was the demand for soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic's autobiography.
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Harry Potter is available through elending from libraries in the US. JK Rowling holds the rights to the ebooks, I think, so she can strike a different deal with libraraies that is unique to only her books.
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Because it could also be interpreted as Germany.
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True, I keep forgetting to be more precise. I just checked, and my (very limited) German online library does not have Harry Potter either. I feel that Europeans always get screwed on everything, darn it!
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12-01-2012, 04:56 AM | #29 | |
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The same is true for videos. Take Netflix: for a fee, you can rent a given number of DVDs at a time. While there are necessarily constraints for physical items (they only have a certain number of DVDs), no such restrictions exist for streaming video. Music and video have made the step from physical item to online service. The ebook needs to do the same, and trying to mirror built-in limitations of physical items is, I repeat myself, stupid, desperate and shows a deep-rooted fear of losing a once profitable, but no longer sustainable business model. It's also an uphill battle (or fighting retreat, depending on your point of view); those who refuse to adapt will simply become irrelevant in due course. Last edited by rogue_librarian; 12-02-2012 at 09:09 AM. |
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Rogue_librarian, that's a great point for a subscription based ebook model, but would that work for public libraries? If they had to "pay per read" every time a library patron reads a title, how would they make sure they don't go bankrupt?
I just wish there was a way for me to donate my read ebooks to my libraries, or gift ebooks to them with the right to read it first, but of course, a book that costs be 9.99 costs them up to 100 times more if I recall the number correctly that my local library gave me. |
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