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/ > > ####