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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
I am thoroughly confused. Are you saying that a publisher can prohibit a library from buying their book and lending it to its clients? 
In Sweden libraries are uy law entitled to buy any material they deem fit for lending. There is actually a joint library service center that remove the covers and put on these special "library covers" (very firm and almost unbreakable) and there is nothing a publisher can do about that. |
Yes. Currently, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster won't allow libraries to lend any of their ebooks. Hachette and Penguin won't allow frontlist ebooks to be loaned out. Random House is clamping down on libraries who allow reciprocal borrowing of ebooks. And finally, HaperCollins instituted a 26x checkout limit. Once one of their ebooks has been loaned out 26 times, the library must repurchase it if they wish to continue lending it out.