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Freakonomics Blog: If Public Libraries Didn’t Exist, Could You Start One Today?

Given the current state of debate about intellectual property, can you imagine modern publishers being willing to sell one copy of a book and then have the owner let an unlimited number of strangers borrow it?

(via librarian.net by Jessamyn)

Posted by Adam on July 24, 2007 1:26 PM |

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