From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 15:43:48 -0400

Any librarians on this list remember when we used to have to return
CCH and other annual business directories to the publishers?  And the
publishers' reps sometimes even came along to collect them?

Did your library ever do this?  Mine did -- in Canada at the time. Are
any publishers still requesting the return of books after a certain
period?  Just wondering...

Cheers, Ann Okerson



On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:46 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 11:36:23 -0400
>
> Rent the p-book and keep the e-book:
>
> http://joshblackman.com/blog/2014/05/05/aspen-casebook-connect-textbooks-must-be-returned-at-end-of-class-cannot-be-resold/
>
> For one price, students get a hardcover book and its enhanced
> e-version; they have "lifetime access" to the e-book (either the
> student's life or the life of the publishing company, of course) but
> "must return" the p-book at the end of the semester.  The blogger
> highlighting this rightly suggests that the physical return may or may
> not happen, but bookstores will be prohibited from reselling the paper
> copies.  (This is what is meant by the FAQ saying that the bookstore
> can "participate" if they choose -- their participation consists of
> being cut out of a source of revenue.)
>
> So is this the nose of the camel under the tent for a great conceptual
> flip?  Throwaway paper books and permanently archived e-versions?
> Keep the e-version and POD a copy whenever I actually want to use it?
> What about buying permanent access to an e-version that's regularly
> updated, so I need a new POD whenever I want to use paper?
>
> Jim O'Donnell