There's a lot of buzz lately (angry buzz!) about some major publishers refusing to allow their e-books to be lent by libraries. The GalleyCat blog has posted a good entry on it, which you can read here. Basically, we can buy books from publishers like Penguin and Simon & Schuster, stick them on our shelves, and lend them out - but we can't do the same with the electronic versions of the same books. The blog entry has a list of the publishers' contact information if you care to let them know what you think about this development. There's also a petition at change.org about it. You can see that here (you have to click on the Petition Letter tab to read the text of the petition).
On the flip side of the issue, I have heard that the actual cost of producing e-books is much, much higher than people think. IT World has an interesting article about it, which you can read here. Maybe these publishers think they wouldn't be able to stay afloat if they didn't charge for every copy of all their e-books.
What do you think?
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