From: "Renison, Neil" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 23:34:17 +0000

Recent comments on the thread of eBooks without Contracts seem to
overlook the purpose of this list and why most of us subscribe to it.
I admit to wondering myself about the value of the collection, but I
simply wouldn't know and it is irrelevant to the main point of the
post.  I just wish people wouldn't clutter the list with matters off
topic.

What was of interest is the revolutionary idea that a deal could be
"culminated through the legal equivalent of a sketch on a cocktail
napkin, not a 330 page contract with multiple addenda."  Spending so
much my time dealing with the insanity of licensing electronic
resources, one can only be interested in any potential for a better
way.  Perhaps this example isn't, but that is what the debate should
be about.

Neil Renison| Librarian, Acquisitions Services

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Goodman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 21:32:31 -0500

These are apparently self-published titles. As they may be essentially
worthless in the first place, I can not see how a public library
paying to buy them or to buy access to them is spending money wisely
no matter how favorable the terms. This  is not  a positive  precedent
for anything.   David Goodman


On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 4:51 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Ann Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 16:22:10 -0500
>
> Of possible interest, Peter Brantley's blog posting about a public
> library's of purchase 10,000 books with a simple statement of
> understanding:
>
> http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/2013/01/06/digital-lendi
> ng-in-agreement/
>
> ####