Referencing the recent denial of ebooks to public libraries by Penguin, a
Library Journal blogger, 'annoyed librarian', had this to say about ebook
loans from public libraries:
"My god," I can hear the Penguin representatives exclaiming, "do you mean
that people can just log into a website and download our ebooks for free?
This is the sort of frictionless socialism up with which we shall not put!"
Read more and the link to the post on the Local Government Library
Technology (LGLibTech) ebook page https://lglibtech.wikispaces.com/E-Books
Ken
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