From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 4 11:22:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5119137B43C for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 11:22:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24024; Fri, 4 May 2001 12:22:34 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504121932.0464c400@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 12:21:17 -0600 To: Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. In-Reply-To: <15090.52681.221237.710261@guru.mired.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504093633.045b1850@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504091914.0467d5b0@localhost> <15090.43795.549818.410213@guru.mired.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010504093633.045b1850@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:42 AM 5/4/2001, Mike Meyer wrote: >No, I'm being realistic. Publishers doing ebooks are reserving >providing licenses that disallow long-established practices. "E-books" aren't popular with libraries anyway, because they would have to loan out the players. (They're also inherently undemocratic in that not everyone can AFFORD the players.) Every title available as an "e-book" is also available in print for libraries to buy. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message