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The licensing costs for Ebooks are unsustainable for library's. The publishers don't want any sharing and so the cost per ebook vs physical is totally out of sync with Ebooks considerably higher. One could argue that publishers are the ones who are strangling the viability of libraries to exist.


This feels like something that could/should be legislated. Libraries should not be subject to the same restrictions on content sharing that consumers are.

Or maybe one better: eliminate restrictions on content sharing.




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