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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Librarian Patience Has Run out on E-Book Lending
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Librarian Patience Has Run out on E-Book Lending Issues, Library
Association Says
http://j.mp/RtL1uc (Digital Book World)
Patience has run out for librarians around the unsolved issue of
e-book lending at libraries, according to American Library
Association president Maureen Sullivan. Speaking at a private
gathering of publishers organized by the Association of American
Publishers, Sullivan was explaining why earlier this week the ALA
sent a strongly worded open letter to publishers about the need to
figure out way for publishers to sell libraries e-books for
"equitable use at a reasonable price." ... Balis [Wiley's
director of digital business development] again confronted the ALA
delegation on the mission of libraries, questioning whether e-book
access was for the "less fortunate" that libraries are, in part,
there to serve or for "wealthy residents of Greenwich [Conn.] who
just want to have a lot of nice, free access to a lot of books?"
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Since when are libraries only supposed to serve the "less fortunate" ?!
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