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Originally Posted by Joykins
I could see a lease/subscription working if there was some quid pro quo for the library and a reasonable term/price, but I think if the price is the same and the expiration time potentially unreasonably short, what libraries will choose to do is buy e-books from other publishers than HC until this shakes out.
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Yes, after talking with a friend whose husband is a librarian, what they're planning on doing is waiting till the popularity of a title dies down before they buy an ebook copy, so the only way to get a popular new release will be though hard copies. I agree with the poster who said HC is trying to kill or severely limit ebook lending. I mean the biggest lenders of books in the world are libraries.