{"id":2487,"date":"2012-02-10T11:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:56","slug":"did-you-know-your-library-cant-buy-ebooks-from-many-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/10\/did-you-know-your-library-cant-buy-ebooks-from-many-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know your library can&#8217;t buy eBooks from many\u00c2\u00a0publishers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/srpubliclibrary.org\/whatsnew\/did-you-know-your-library-cant-buy-ebooks-from-many-publishe.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/lockedbook.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sadly, unlike a regular person, a library cannot pay Amazon or Barnes &amp; Noble for an eBook and then lend it out to people. We can buy a printed book from these companies, stick it on the shelf, and lend it out&#8211;but digital content is treated differently by the publishers and the companies who manage digital content licensing. We desperately want to offer you these eBooks. But the companies won&#8217;t let us. As your library, we commit to continuing advocacy for change in these policies.<\/p>\n<p>For more info and to see who to contact, please see <strong>bit.ly\/noebooks<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/srpubliclibrary.org\/whatsnew\/did-you-know-your-library-cant-buy-ebooks-from-many-publishe.html\">San Rafael Public Library &#8211; What&#8217;s New &#8211; Did you know your library can&#8217;t buy eBooks from many\u00c2\u00a0publishers?<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that a library cannot pay Amazon or Barnes &amp; Noble for an eBook and then lend it out to people. We can buy a printed book from these companies, stick it on the shelf, and lend it out&#8211;but digital content is treated differently by the publishers and the companies who manage digital content licensing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,150,149,220,566],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-ebooks","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-publishers","tag-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10067,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/10067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}