Why a shift to ebooks imperils libraries | Bibliographic Wilderness With a print book, a library can buy a book and loan it to as many borrowers as they like, without any permission from the publisher at all. In the US, the right to do this is protected by the first sale doctrine. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine> http://bit.ly/rtpkNI Source: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2011/12/25/why-a-shift-to-ebooks-imperils-libraries/ See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/rtpkNI+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]