On Digital Lending
Josh Greenberg, over at the epistemographer talks about the future of digital lending. Though I’m more interested in the action of the “Lend”, Josh gets to the potential of the use. If a book is owned by a person (or group?), and is lent out, does it only count as “in use” when someone’s eyes are on it? It makes me think of p2p sharing - when you’re downloading a file, it’s available by multiple users as the same time, so if one logs off, you can still continue your download from a different source.
This all sounds like it will lead to complicated limitations on digital book lending - which probably won’t fare well in the digital world where we feel our access to information must be the same as air.
