http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-news-updates-from-kobo-amazon-and-apple/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 25 May 2013 13:44:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.teleread.com/morning-roundup/morning-links-news-updates-from-kobo-amazon-and-apple/comment-page-1/#comment-1231956 Frank Lowney Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:00:25 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=77340#comment-1231956 Re the piece on University Libraries "sharing" eBooks, the belief among academic librarians that commercial publishers will always be the primary and best source for eBooks appears to me to be seriously undermining their bargaining position. This weakening also threatens to bring up the question of whether traditional academic libraries are the best option for handling digital works. To put it bluntly, I think that they are shooting themselves in the foot and then bragging about how good their aim is. Re the piece on University Libraries “sharing” eBooks, the belief among academic librarians that commercial publishers will always be the primary and best source for eBooks appears to me to be seriously undermining their bargaining position. This weakening also threatens to bring up the question of whether traditional academic libraries are the best option for handling digital works. To put it bluntly, I think that they are shooting themselves in the foot and then bragging about how good their aim is.

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