Ironically the thing that they were just worried about not getting a sale about, is DEFINITELY going to happen.
May 29th they were going to have a very happy and proud buyer of the physical copy of "Prisoner of Tehran" by Marina Nemat, which Canada Reads alerted me to, and I read the e-book via library loan, cover to cover, and put it on my list of books I want to BUY. It is published by Penguin.
(May 29th is my birthday and my in-laws usually give me a nice sized bit of money to spend).
The reason I wanted to BUY Prisoner of Tehran is because I got the luxury of knowing that this is not a throwaway trend of a read for me. It is one that will pay for itself in re-read after re-read, and dog-eared pages.
THOSE are the kinds of books I buy. And as I stated in the poll thread, the way I discover which books fit that bill is to not buy blind, but preview at the library. I borrow and return an awful lot of books, and every now and then a book cuts me to the gut and says "You want to read me again and again don't you!" and I daydream about owning the book.
I read a ton of things, but I OWN books that have a special place IN MY HEART. They work their way into my heart through the public library. E-books had me being a patron more and more of the library and discovering new books.
I considered my t1 purchase around the very idea that e-book lending was so easy.
Penguin, you lost a customer through your paranoia and IDIOCY, not through library lending. That actually almost got you a loyal customer.
Sorry for almost repeating a word for word rant here. I am so sad I am choked up, over this. Ironically enough, I can't even get to the library by bus because Halifax transit is in a labor strike