10-21-2010, 11:57 AM | #1 | |
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Are libraries under attack in the UK?
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10-21-2010, 01:16 PM | #2 |
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If it will go ahead yes, libraries (are) under attack in the UK. That “brilliant” decision puts the word stupidity into a new level! |
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10-21-2010, 01:25 PM | #3 |
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10-21-2010, 02:05 PM | #4 |
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I simply cannot believe this. The publishers really are setting out to continue to try doing business in a paper based world world, when technology has long since overtaken them. This will kill ebooks in libraries. There is no way I would take my laptop into the library, setup the wifi and download what I want - and my ereader doesn't allow wireless downloads.
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10-21-2010, 02:13 PM | #5 |
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This is why in the US many if not most public libraries stopped issuing cards to out-of-state residents. Their contract with Overdrive prohibits them from doing so.
One librarian is quoted as turning out of towners away but perhaps others were more lax in their policies. |
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10-21-2010, 02:44 PM | #6 |
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So much for sharing knowledge with the rest of the world.
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10-21-2010, 03:01 PM | #7 |
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Ultimately, I think the publishers are going to find this counter productive. As publishers try harder and harder to restrict reasonable access to books to protect their "rights" they are simply going to push more and more people into finding alternate sources of books. Of course by alternate, I mean pirate sites.
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10-21-2010, 05:51 PM | #9 |
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The full speech is here.
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/13...k-lending.html They're obviously not trying to win the hearts and minds of the ebook buying public. |
10-21-2010, 05:59 PM | #10 | |
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10-21-2010, 06:00 PM | #11 | |
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You just get it lent indefinitely, indefinitely meaning a) until the DRM wanes, making your book irretrievable again; b) until the real owner decides to take away your books, à la 1984; or c) until you break the DRM and acquire full ownership of the file. Therefore, the matter is that I can choose between a so-called permanent lease which costs lots of money, and a temporary lease which doesn't cost a penny. Of course, under those conditions, "who would buy a book ever again?" |
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10-21-2010, 09:44 PM | #12 | |
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10-21-2010, 10:42 PM | #13 |
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Does it also mention how they are going to force the U.S. to go metric?
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10-22-2010, 02:41 AM | #14 |
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I wish. But taking the example of the music and film industries, what we are going to see is more and more of the big companies telling governments to crack down on a) piracy, b) cheap sites (which will be called unfair competition or price dumping) and c) international sales (aka grey imports). It's all in ACTA and the publishing world is going to jump on the band wagon. There's only one incentive stronger than an attack on your purse, and that's the sex drive.
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10-22-2010, 04:36 AM | #15 |
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I guess we will have the music/film business all over again. After a massive (and still massive, but slightly reduced) piracy "business", at least in Norway the DRM of CD's and MP3 files are removed. I can now legally buy Non-Restricted MP3 files which I can play on as many players and devices as I like. Also the terms and conditions (www.platekompaniet.no) states that I can even share the music with my closest friends and family. But of course not share "with my 199.000 closest friends over internet".
Hopefully, after the publisher vultures experience "a massive economic loss" (as they will put it), they'll come to senses and actually start to sell unrestricted ebooks to a price and convenience the consumer will accept and adhere to. The music business in Norway is now on its right way to again earn money and most customers are satisfied. I'm not stupid, of course there will *ALWAYS* exist nincompoops which (deliberately not "who") will not follow the law. |
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