[WEB4LIB] Re: Still More Copyright

[Jennifer Heise]

> >The attraction of being able to grab any reading material, from
> >books to newspapers and magazines, at any time and from anywhere,
> >will be a powerful incentive for their wide adoption, at least by
> >those who can afford such connectivity. 
> And you'll pay and you'll pay and libraries will be frozen out.

I keep hoping that the information that will be offered via ebooks will
include a lot of the information that my non-academic friends are now
buying from BN and Borders-- nice thick books on non-popular subjects
like the middle ages, that are seldom available at their public
libraries and would be very suitable for electronic books-- think of the
indexing and search possibilities!

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Resources
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