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"But anyway, no matter what's going on here, it appears that while libraries can put some economic pressure on publishers, the industry could survive - and may actually thrive - without libraries getting in the middle. Any negotiations we do will be coming from a position of weakness. Which brings me to the eBook User Bill of Rights…
I don't like it.
I have a friend that, whenever someone mentions having a social media policy, flips their lid because they think that any general public activities policy/standards of behavior should cover social media activities. In other words, the old content vs. container debate. And I have to say, I'm a little disappointed that this Bill of Rights was limited to just eBooks. I think if you're going to do it and make a bill of rights, expand it out to all information consumers and types of information.
I also think, that given the weak negotiating position that libraries are in, it's too confrontational. I think a better way would be to include the Rights and Responsibilities of all participants in the information consumption chain."
"I want HarperCollins to survive, but fairly and smartly-- not on libraries' backs with clumsy attempts to staunch the economic hemorrhaging involved in shifting to a new kind of publishing, and not on authors' backs either. (As Margaret Atwood so charmingly put it, "Who is going to pay for the cheese sandwiches on which authors are known to subsist?") We all need to figure out how to structure this so as many of us as possible can keep supporting the valuable work of writing and reading. "
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