The Horns For Ottawa Librarians
The US Fed lowered interest rates to almost zero today, effectively making money and government bonds indistinguishable — goodbye to the power of monetary policy.
The CBC is running a story today about the Ottawa library and ebooks. Overdive, mobipocket, and PDF ebooks are available for “lending”, effectively making library loans and book giveaways indistinguishable — goodbye to the strangle-hold book publishers have had on distribution.
That is overly dramatic, but bring on the information commons. It is about time somebody stopped treating intellectual property literally as property.
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