Curious what the longest streaks of all time are. The PRI in Mexico had like a 75 year streak until the 2000s or so…
Curious what the longest streaks of all time are. The PRI in Mexico had like a 75 year streak until the 2000s or so…
The problem is never on the tech end, assuming you wanted to make a good platform. That’s probably a 400-level CS class project, especially if you’re only dealing with a single library system that doesn’t have multi-million-user-scale and five-nines reliability needs.
The pitfalls are 99% about the business relationships and having to pre-enshittify the system to service them-- getting the publishers to trust the platform will enforce DRM and related random shitty deals (i. e. that ebooks have to be retired after n loans, as though they wear out like a paperback). I’d expect there’s virtually no trust for a new player.
What’s needed is mandatory licensing. The libraries and their software dev partners decide what terms they want, they get a standard price card, and the publishers have to eat it.
I see “aerospace engineering” and the Boeing quakity issues just fall into place.
Aluminium coins, like the Japanese 1-yen, can float on the surface tension of water.