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Originally Posted by John F
But it's a weak ace. To me, this sounds like the Nuclear option. Haven't libraries sunk large amounts into their licenses. Going back to paper books, their licenses would be revoked, and would require a huge reinvestment in paperbooks (and rebuying ebooks again when they want to start lending ebooks again).
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Overdrive might not like that, but don't you think publishers would probably be very happy with e-books not being available in libraries? Since some publishers already won't allow them, and HC is limiting them, I think they really really want to cut libraries out of the picture.