The Business of Life: E-Learning Threatens Publishers

I remember the Old School way.

Go to Penn's Van Pelt Library, find the book I needed, slog over to the copy machine and feed in dimes. Not any more.

"...[getting a book] ... is as simple as logging into an e-mail account, clicking on a few links and printing it," wrote ANICK JESDANUN about a New York University student in an Associate Press article. No going to the library, no waiting on line, no waiting to Xerox.

JESDANUNA wrote that publishing companies are worried precisely because of that ease and convenience — it's another way for publishers to lose sales.

The Association of American Publishers already has contacted one school, the University of California, San Diego, claiming "blatantly infringing use is being made of numerous books, journals and other copyrighted works."