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Pioneer Library System, via one of my favorite e-book blogs, Nate the Great’s The Digital Reader. Related LibraryCity post: Printed books vs. e-books: Should publishers impose borrowing limits on e-book copies even though there aren’t equivalent limits on paper copies? A national digital library system would enjoy enough leverage to reduce the chances of such abuses of readers and taxpayers. Unrelated housekeeping: In the next day or so I’ll post about this week’s Harvard workshop for the proposed Digital Public Library of America. Update: Might be over the weekend or on Monday instead.
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Wow… I am all for eBooks and have a Kindle myself. I still head to the library all of the time and this borrowing limit on eBooks does not make too much sense, especially how many times single books are checked as the video shows.
Has this already been instituted?
The new HarperCollins 26-circulation rule started on Monday, March 7, I think. My understanding is that the rule is not retroactive to HC ebooks purchased by libraries before that date.
Thanks for your concern. Not sure of the official HarperCollins date, but some libraries already are refusing to pick up new HarperCollins e-books.
David Rothman