Net
Library Is a library that lends out digital books.It treats a digital like a paperback copy.It charges libraries per book per copy
and gives publishers a cut of the total income.
From
the consumer's point of view, this means that if more than, say, five people
want the latest Danielle Steel romance novel, other people who request that
book will get a message saying the title can't be found.
It's
a model many publishers seem to have embraced.More than 350 gave the company rights to
hand out their digital works and McGraw-Hill Corporation and Houghton Mifflin
Corporation have put money in the company.The California public libraries and about 1,800 others across the
US are trying out the Net Library service.
Some
librarians criticize the New Library model.Stanford University librarian Michael Keller argues that the
company is creating an unnatural fear of digital woks; which is contrary to the
ideas of the Internet.
Keller
and some other librarians argue for the e-book vision set forth by E-Brary.E-Brary is starting a service mat lets
us users read books for free.
But
it will charge about 25 cents a page when a person tries to print out material
or copy and paste it into a different file or tries to download copy onto a
computer.
Christopher
Warnock, chief executive of E-Brary, believes most consumers won't want to buy
entire books, only the parts that interest them.
"There's
not really a lot of good m owning an electronic file and having to store it and
manage it.It doesn't
make sense." he
said.
1.How do publishers get money from the
Net Library?
A.They get money from selling their books
to the Net Library.
B.They share the money with the Net
Library.
C.They get money by cutting the cost of
the books.
D.They get the money from the readers.
2.The underlined word
"embraced" in the 3rd paragraph means _ ___.
A.taken something
willingly B.held something tightly
C.disliked something
badly D.tried out something hard
3.From the 2nd paragraph we can see
consumers .
A.don’t care if they are charged money
B.enjoy the service of the Net Library
C.don’t like other people borrowing books
D.complain about the limited number of the
new books
4.What
does the last paragraph mean?
A.Net Library is not a good way for the
consumers.
B.There is no need for consumers to have a
whole book.
C.E-Brary is not a good library for the
consumers.
D.It’s reasonable to charge the consumers
money for copying some pages.