iPads, books and copyright...?

Dinarius

Asking this on behalf of a friend:

I don't have children, so I'm clueless on this topic.

A friend with children in a Dublin school has been told that she has to buy books in hard copy form and downloaded onto an iPad.

The hard copy books can be passed on to her younger children next year and the year after.

The catch with the downloaded books is that they are wiped from the iPads at the end of the school year, it seems. So, they have to be repurchased at the beginning of the following term.

Why is this?

If you buy a book on Kindle, isn't it for keeps?

If this is true, why aren't people up in arms about it?

Thanks.

D.

gctest50

Because : Scam

Dinarius

gctest50 wrote: »

Because : Scam

So, why are TDs, Dept. of Ed. etc. being dragged over hot coals over this?

Amazed it hasn't been rehearsed on Joe Duffy.

Thanks.

D.

gctest50

Dinarius wrote: »

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The hard copy books can be passed on to her younger children next year and the year after.

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This too :





ain't a natural posture that, can't be good

need to move away from that craic ASAP

hth