English Library Operation - Interim report

CHILLIN wrote:Setting up an English language digital library would be very difficult and/or expensive. The public libraries in the U.S. and Canada are mostly stocked by publishers because the law forces them to. If there was any such law in Mexico, which I doubt, the handful of Mexican publishers would mostly provide in Spanish language. The U.S. publishers have worked with the libraries and a software called "Overdrive". They can buy a title, but only a certain number can be taken out. Sometimes you have to wait, just like in the bricks and mortar world. You don't have to return a digital title. After a certain time - poof - it disappears. To purchase individual kindle titles from Amazon, and then lending them out, is probably as much a copyright violation as stripping the digital protection and uploading them to the internet. So unless the LCS Library wants to distribute DRM stripped titles (which number in the tens of thousands) they would have to negotiate some sort of understanding with Amazon and Overdrive.

A number of public libraries in the U.S. allow out of state memberships for an annual fee. I haven't looked into it for a few months.

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