PD books from libraries: Off the media radar
“The one similarity between e-books and hard cover books is that the libraries may only carry one or two copies of each title. So if someone checks out the last copy of an e-book, you’ll just have to wait until it’s returned.” – Chicago CBS affiliate.
The TeleRead take: But what about public domain books? Can’t public libraries start carrying them en masse–and checking them out forever? The main fault is libraries’. But the media don’t help when they ignore the possibilities. Imagine all the many millions in squandered tax money, not to mention the harm to education, when schools and libraries fall for e-book gouges rather than going the public domain route.
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