Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 12:21:17 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Publishers attacks on public rights. Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010504121932.0464c400@localhost> 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>
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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
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