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Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 21:32:22 -0600
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights.
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At 12:33 PM 5/4/2001, Mike Meyer wrote:

>Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> types:
>> 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.
>
>Non sequitor. They don't have to loan out the players any more than
>they have to for VHS cassettes. 

Far more people have VCRs than e-book players.

--Brett


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