Ebooks on Linux

[Scott Elcomb]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> So if you fail the course and want to do it again, you have to buy the
> book again?
>
> Also those books tend to be useful reference material later.  6 months
> limits are stupid on text books.

And not just books; in the case of online/distance courses:

"Other provisions will facilitate distance learning by permitting
institutions to communicate lessons to the public over the Internet
for educational or training purposes, subject to any digital locks and
as long as the lessons are destroyed within thirty days of conclusion
of a course."

<http://www.mcmillan.ca/Copyright-Reform-Bill-C---11>

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