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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>
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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


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