Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Hussar]

THAT was your very first post? Really?

 

[trappedslider]

How is a digital copy of a book limited to only 2 copies?

As in there's only two copies that can be checked out

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

 

[trappedslider]

 

[RealAlHazred]

How is a digital copy of a book limited to only 2 copies?

As in there's only two copies that can be checked out

I see you've not been informed of the Electron Conservation Movement! There are a finite number of electrons on Earth, and we're using them willy-nilly for displaying emails and advertisements and other ephemera that would be better printed on paper, an infinite resource! Conserve electrons so that future generations will have an internet to enjoy! Won't anyone think of the children?

 

[overgeeked]

How is a digital copy of a book limited to only 2 copies?

As in there's only two copies that can be checked out

Because the library signed a contract with the publisher. To avoid the “problem” of infinite check outs from one digital copy, ebooks are artificially limited to X copies at once and Y check outs total before the library has to buy a “new copy” of the ebook to replicate the limited availability of print books, wear and tear, and eventual replacement. That is to say, this is all to make the publisher and author more money.

 

[Cadence]

Work has been kicking my butt, but that thread certainly made it worth coming back for a visit

 

[Ryujin]

I see you've not been informed of the Electron Conservation Movement! There are a finite number of electrons on Earth, and we're using them willy-nilly for displaying emails and advertisements and other ephemera that would be better printed on paper, an infinite resource! Conserve electrons so that future generations will have an internet to enjoy! Won't anyone think of the children?

I can see that you've fallen for the propaganda of Big Crypto.

 

[Thomas Shey]

How is a digital copy of a book limited to only 2 copies?

As in there's only two copies that can be checked out

Rules applying to the agency involved.

 

[Thomas Shey]

Because the library signed a contract with the publisher. To avoid the “problem” of infinite check outs from one digital copy, ebooks are artificially limited to X copies at once and Y check outs total before the library has to buy a “new copy” of the ebook to replicate the limited availability of print books, wear and tear, and eventual replacement. That is to say, this is all to make the publisher and author more money.

And often much more to do with the publisher. Same reason you'll see Kindle books that cost more than the physical incarnations of them, something that is nonsensical on the face of it.