My name is C. Castro and I'm creating this blog for week 2 of my CECS 5200 assignment. I will be using this blog to post content about my project. Each week, we will be working on our project. For this week, we are to come up with our project topic. I'm still undecided about what I want to do but I'm leaning towards doing something related to work, possibly electronic assessments. We are currently using ExamSoft but we really don't have much content that can be shared with our faculty and students.
I've read the other views on this controversy and I have not changed my mind about my stand against this eBook policy. A post by someone who is for the HarperCollins eBook policy stated that libraries who can't afford to purchase ebooks or don't want to pay again after the 26th circulation should only offer printed copies. I disagree with this statement because I don't think is up to libraries to decide whether to offer ebooks or not, is really up to their users and their demand. As Harper (2007) stated, "the distinction between a library and a digital library has all but disappeared." According to Harper, publishers do not believe that Section 109 for print works should apply to electronic works. I feel like many things were not addressed prior to the implementation of this limitation in the electronic material. For example, some publishers have a lifetime warranty in some of their printed books so this kind of defeats HarperCollins thoug...
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