From: Todd Puccio <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:41:48 +0000

.Self-published works are not worthless.  That's a real snobbish way
of thinking. They just may not be worth the money that this library is
paying.

One of the reasons they may be doing this is that often Public Library
service is about the numbers.

By joining this service they can up their e-book holdings statistics.


Todd Puccio

-----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/
>
> ####