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Originally Posted by Harmon
And if I were an author, I'd be furious. What this means is that anyone who goes with H-C will not have their current ebook or back catalogue of ebooks generally available in the library. This simply cannot be a good thing for anyone who wants their books to be read.
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This is a really, really good point. With paper books, libraries are constantly forced to get rid of old, unpopular titles to make room for new, more popular books. Ebooks don't have the disadvantage of taking up physical space, so there's no reason to get rid of old titles. But if libraries are forced to constantly relicense ebooks, there's no reason to keep older books which will provide, relatively speaking, less value to library patrons than new stuff.