Tim Spalding wrote: > I really hope this—or more probably what comes of this—ends the > selling of covers to libraries. Probably not, with all the restrictions you attached. Still, this is a most interesting experiment. Commercial sellers supposedly have a legal backing from contracts with publishers, which you don't? How long will that last? If it does last, it is indeed a big win. In the blog entry, you wrote: "Publishers and authors want libraries and bookstores to show their covers." -- I'm not so sure. I think publishers want copyright to make it hard to use out-of-print books, so people buy new books instead. Back in 1932, Aldous Huxley wrote: "We don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." -- Lars Aronsson ([log in to unmask]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se