Unless you agreed IN ADVANCE to this condition of sale, they are trying to
impose a requirement on you (you may not share passwords) which you have not
agreed to. In such cases, you have not formed a contract with the
publisher, and therefore can ignore the attempted restriction on use.
However, if you were forewarned before you bought the book that such a
system operated, and went ahead and bought the book, then you should comply
with the restriction.
Charles
Professor Charles Oppenheim
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leics LE11 3TU
Tel 01509-223065
Fax 01509-223053
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From: "Thomas, John" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 8:49 AM
Subject: Books with pin for "online access plus interactive extras"
To: Academic Libraries / Electronic Information Providers:
Has anyone out there come across books which contain a scratch-panel
revealing a pin number for online access to the book (ie. e-book version)
with "interactive extras" - but for one user only? We have acquired one
(Basic Immunology, Abbas & Lichtman, Saunders (Elsevier), 2004). This is
"strictly for single user access ... sharing of passwords is strictly
prohibited ..." If you have such things, how are you treating them? - I
wonder. Presumably they cannot in any way be made fully accessible to all,
nor can we decide who is going to be the lucky first borrower with the
"interactive extras"; and how much do the subsequent users lose? Or perhaps
books like this simply don't comply with our normal idea of a "library
book".
Any thoughts?
Dr John Thomas,
Electronic Resources Librarian,
University of Wolverhampton
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