Re:The last thing libraries need is Silicon Valley “disrupti...
by kaitai on Friday July 27, 2018 @12:20PM
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This is exactly right. There are two ingredients to making money: providing value and externalizing costs. When the value provided by an entity is essentially that it doesn't externalize costs -- that it's a sink for societal costs -- it doesn't make sense to commercialize it. We fund libraries because we want them to do unprofitable things.
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