Amateur Megalomania

Pat Schroeder’s New Chapter (washingtonpost.com)

And to prove I’m not completely nuts on the library issue, I found this over the weekend.

“And who, you might be wondering, is giving Schroeder and her publishers such afright?

Librarians, of course.

No joke. Of all the dangerous and dot-complex problems that American publishers face in the near future — economic downturns, competition for leisure time, piracy — perhaps the most explosive one could be libraries. Publishers and librarians are squaring off for a battle royal over the way electronic books and journals are lent out from libraries and over what constitutes fair use of written material. “

I think this sums up a lot of my objection –

Grossly oversimplified: Publishers want to charge people to read material; librarians want to give it away.

I don’t think it is all that grossly oversimplified.

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