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Wow. My future SOP for acquiring HC books: 1) Library 2) Darknet 3) Either don't buy it or only buy it if it is a ridiculously cheap price.
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Short of outright fraud, how could they not share? Another sale is another royalty; it's pretty straightforward.
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But like I said, I'm very cynical about the way that North American corporations are basically legally required to act like sociopaths and try and screw everyone at every opportunity in order to make more money. ![]() |
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You kids get off my lawn!
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I really think that screwing libraries in the short term will screw the publishers and authors in the long term. And I can't help but wonder...if the library hadn't been there at that time, if the books I wanted to read hadn't been there, would I be the reader I am today? Would I have found other interests instead? Because I have to admit - the books they made me read in school were definitely NOT what made me love reading... |
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This is a total ripoff. How are you going to make people aware every time they check a book out how costly it is. |
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Everything in this thread seems to be dependent on the relationships between a library (or library system), Overdrive, and major publishers.
Are there other lending systems for ebooks that libraries could use? For example, does Smashwords have any standard way to get their books into a library? I realize that the product of major publishers has some implied level of quality, and that librarians want to control the content of their collections, but how do small publishers get ebooks into a library? I know that several years ago, Baen books offered to let library systems load out their webscription programs, but at that time there were no systems in place to support that, and Baen didn't want DRM applied to their books. Has anyone come up with a better, or at least different method? For reasons that are obvious given their previous actions, I don't expect Amazon to want to sponsor or be involved with a library loan program, but maybe Smashwords would? |
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I suspect other countries have similar systems, but I am not aware of much competition in that field. (I'd love to learn more.) |
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unfortunately, except for school/university libraries, community libraries are almost non-existent here, as far as i know. so i'm not completely familiar with the library system and if they charge membership fees? (oh, and our national library is practically empty, according to my siblings; it's a sad state of affairs)
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This is an action they can quite easily explain by analogy to paper books, and have a large proportion of the general publc think they are being reasonable. And if there is more resistance than they expected they can just fiddle with the number a bit and look concilatory, while everyone had implictly accepted the underlying principle of self-destructing books. Even here at mobileread there have been a significant number of response along the lines of 'well maybe 100 would be ok' |
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In many areas, they get royalties each time the book is checked out. |
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