Comments on: GBS is a worrisome development… http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/freethebooks/2009/01/08/gbs-is-a-worrisome-development/ conjugating international copyright laws Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:24:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: thorn http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/freethebooks/2009/01/08/gbs-is-a-worrisome-development/comment-page-1/#comment-92 thorn Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:24:47 +0000 http://blogs.lib.utexas.edu/freethebooks/?p=53#comment-92 alice is just concerned *now* about people sampling only a few pages of a text? that's been a problem in print, too, since *forever*. just because the student has the print book in hand doesn't mean his or her paper's not due at 8 tomorrow morning. if that's the case, they'll scan the toc & the index, photocopy the imprint & needed couple of pages, and off they'll go. alice is just concerned *now* about people sampling only a few pages of a text? that’s been a problem in print, too, since *forever*.

just because the student has the print book in hand doesn’t mean his or her paper’s not due at 8 tomorrow morning. if that’s the case, they’ll scan the toc & the index, photocopy the imprint & needed couple of pages, and off they’ll go.

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