at $100 or less, an ebook reader isn't a big ticket item
(and you can read ebooks for free on an existing computer)
-- what's at stake is the dwindling public physical meeting
space that the library has always provided... now if only
something similar could threaten the facade of corrupt art
institutions!
/:b
On Tue, 24 May 2011, Joel Weishaus wrote:
> So one must spend hundreds of dollars before being able to read these "books" at home?
> No matter of what profits Amazon dreams, this is not the mission of a public library.
>
> -Joel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Margaret Penfold
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 9:40 AM
> Subject: [WDL] Libraries and kindle
>
>
> It's spreading. How longer before all public libraries are completely virtual?
> http://technorati.com/business/article/amazon-kindle-books-hitting-the-library/
> Regards,
> Margaret
>
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