I'd be surprised if that were officially true. It might be
bureaucratically the case -ie regional libraries can't deal with the
red tape. Which may well amount to the same thing.
No, we don't have a first amendment here, which means people use
things like defamation law as censorship device.
xA
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Douglas Barbour
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> Yeah, I went & read that link.
>
> But are you sure about not being allowed to read these books? That sounds
> even beyond the worst nightmare of a supposedly democratic country like
> yours
>
> Maybe you could not borrow such a book, but I would think you could request
> & read it in an academic library at a uni (which might be impossible for you
> to do).
>
> I know that here, Inter-library Loan works between the university & the
> local libraries, at least on some books.
>
> It sounds like you're in the Ghormenghast of library systems!
>
> Doug
> On 11-Dec-08, at 5:18 AM, Christopher C Jones wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 09:31 -0700, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>
>>> Whew, what books exactly, Christopher?
>>>
>>> I'd suspect only university libraries might hold such as these, alas...
>>
>> True to the above. Regional libraries, here, as far as I know don't have
>> access to academic libraries and since I am not an academic it is a
>> breach of copyright law to let me have access to these books through an
>> academic library. Only academics and enrolled students are allowed
>> access to recent discussions in philosophy.
>>
>> The story, I am told, is that publishers consider it worthwhile only
>> doing a limited run for academic libraries. Publishers not only get to
>> sell libraries very expensive books but also they collect a royalty when
>> the book is borrowed or a few pages are photocopied by students. So no
>> paperback edition.
>>
>>
>> Dominic's link is very much worth reading. (Nihil Unbound is beyond my
>> reach, unfortunately.)
>>
>>
>> tp://www.shaviro.com/Blog/?p=690
>>
>
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