The missing link between libraries and online book piracy
This is it folks. It’s all over. Let’s pack it in and call it a day. I now have proof, proof I say! That use of libraries causes online book piracy!
Take a look at exhibit A:
This is a partial screenshot from an online index of downloadable ebooks. So as to not encourage such blatant illegality I’ll not provide a link. However, take a look at the cover of the book. What is that I see, but a library accession label. Unfortunately it’s too small to make out exactly which library is the source of this illicit material.
Yes folks, people are checking out copied of library books, scanning them, and posting them online! It’s not enough that they just read the content themselves, but they’re sharing that content with others in complete violation of the author’s rights. Next thing you know we’ll be supplying the technology to do this within the library walls.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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5 Replies to “The missing link between libraries and online book piracy”
Ha! I totally recognize that label and found the record for it.
Seriously!?
If I could be certain a patron did this, I’d say “hooray! How do we get other patrons equally engaged with reading and libraries?” But are you sure this isn’t a relic from one of the big scanning projects (e.g. Google Books, Open Content Alliance, Million Book Project, etc.)
Isn’t this book part of the Google project? Is sure looks like the cover matches.
This is a partial screenshot from an online index of downloadable ebooks. So as to not encourage such blatant illegality I’ll not provide a link. However, take a look at the cover of the book. What is that I see, but a library accession label. Unfortunately it’s too small to make out exactly which library is the source of this illicit material.
Ha! I totally recognize that label and found the record for it.
Seriously!?
If I could be certain a patron did this, I’d say “hooray! How do we get other patrons equally engaged with reading and libraries?” But are you sure this isn’t a relic from one of the big scanning projects (e.g. Google Books, Open Content Alliance, Million Book Project, etc.)
Isn’t this book part of the Google project? Is sure looks like the cover matches.
http://books.google.com/books?id=D4JJAAAAIAAJ&ots=MQBgFvJ9ug&dq=the%20story%20of%20freemasonry&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
You’re probably right but I’m seeing a completely different cover.