From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 17:19:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New post.
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+Title: Free e-book kiosk for the public libraries?
+Tags: english, opphavsrett
+Date: 2011-10-07 19:20
+
+<p>Here in Norway the public libraries are debating with the
+publishing houses how to handle electronic books.  Surprisingly, the
+libraries seem to be willing to accept digital restriction mechanisms
+(DRM) on books and renting e-books with artificial scarcity from the
+publishing houses.  Time limited renting (2-3 years) is one proposed
+model, and only allowing X borrowers for each book is another.
+Personally I find it amazing that libraries are even considering such
+models.</p>
+
+<p>Anyway, while reading <a href="http://boklaben.no/?p=220">part of
+this debate</a>, it occurred to me that someone should present a more
+sensible approach to the libraries, to allow its borrowers to get used
+to a better model.  The idea is simple:</p>
+
+<p>Create a computer system for the libraries, either in the form of a
+Live DVD or a installable distribution, that provide a simple kiosk
+solution to hand out free e-books.  As a start, the books distributed
+by <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenberg</a> (abount
+36,000 books), <a href="http://runeberg.org/">Project Runenberg</a>
+(1149 books) and <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/texts">The
+Internet Archive</a> (3,033,748 books) could be included, but any book
+where the copyright has expired or with a free licence could be
+distributed.</p>
+
+<p>The computer system would make it easy to:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li>Copy e-books into a USB stick, reading tables, cell phones and
+  other relevant equipment.</li>
+
+<li>Show the books for reading on the the screen in the library.</li>
+
+b</ul>
+
+<p>In addition to such kiosk solution, there should probably be a web
+site as well to allow people easy access to these books without
+visiting the library.  The site would be the distribution point for
+the kiosk systems, which would connect regularly to fetch any new
+books available.</p>
+
+<p>Are there anyone working on a system like this?  I guess it would
+fit any library in the world, and not just the Norwegian public
+libraries. :)</p>