Re: Crazy idea day!
- From: Tom Frenkel <taf2@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Crazy idea day!
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:18:34 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Tony --
I don't know too much about it, but my local (Queens, NY) public library
has a new e-book program which seems to work something like what you
describe. See, e.g.:
http://www.netlibrary.com/help/FAQ.asp#WhatDifference
The actual library home page is at:
http://www.queenslibrary.org/
Once there, click on "OnLine Books".
--Tom
Tom Frenkel <taf2@[redacted]>
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~taf2
[Moderator: Note that to access most of the books in NetLibrary,
you need to be a patron of a library that has purchased NetLibrary
collections. They also have some "free" titles, but last I checked I
didn't see any in that category besides repackaged etexts from
Gutenberg and other free and open on-line book sites. - JMO]
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Tony Kline wrote:
> I was considering ways in which the impact of copyright for recent works
> might be reduced in the case of e-texts. Would it be feasible legally
> I wondered to run old-style public libraries online? The texts would have
> to be genuinely deleted from the library when issued, and replaced when
> returned so that only one library copy was in existence ...