For Coates, the hope now is that the sales data from these arrangements will in time be enough to convince the big publishers that lending e-books is a way to grow and that they should work with libraries and not cut them off.

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With that information, EMMA will then e-mail you (at the same time as the big managers) the disclosures, financial and material events for your muni bonds.

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Valerie Thompson of the E-Learning Foundation says children without home internet "lose out big time".

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"We haven't proven there's a big enough market for the enhanced e-book to justify the effort, time and money, " she says.

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