[ NNSquad ] Librarian Patience Has Run out on E-Book Lending Issues, Library Association Says

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Librarian Patience Has Run out on E-Book Lending Issues, Library
Association Says

http://j.mp/RtL1uc  (Digital Book World)

    Patience has run out for librarians around the unsolved issue of
    e-book lending at libraries, according to American Library
    Association president Maureen Sullivan.  Speaking at a private
    gathering of publishers organized by the Association of American
    Publishers, Sullivan was explaining why earlier this week the ALA
    sent a strongly worded open letter to publishers about the need to
    figure out way for publishers to sell libraries e-books for
    "equitable use at a reasonable price." ...  Balis [Wiley's
    director of digital business development] again confronted the ALA
    delegation on the mission of libraries, questioning whether e-book
    access was for the "less fortunate" that libraries are, in part,
    there to serve or for "wealthy residents of Greenwich [Conn.] who
    just want to have a lot of nice, free access to a lot of books?"

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Since when are libraries only supposed to serve the "less fortunate" ?!

--Lauren--
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