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		sodiumjoe on Sept 29, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Unveils $199 Kindle Fire Tablet I agree that it's silly from a technological point of view, but the libraries are at the mercy of publishers, and what else can the publishers do, really? If they let libraries "lend" out unlimited copies of books, who would buy them?

Tyrannosaurs on Sept 29, 2011 [–]

As someone said recently, if libraries didn't already exist, publishers would be doing their best to stop them happening.

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