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Originally Posted by CazMar
Now I buy them from 2nd hand bookstores. Sorry Penguin,you have lost me completely.
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Not as I see it. Used sales provide price support for the new product, just like with cars.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
My response to them is to quit buying their products.
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That, and the stock price. I believe Penguin's parent, Pearson, is trading near a ten year high.
As a heavy library user and extremely light book-buyer, public library eBooks are very much in my interest. I used to go from library to library, in my metro area, to find books I would like. Now I do the same, right at the computer where I am writing this, by having library cards for multiple counties. Great for me. But that doesn't mean it makes sense for publishers to allow this.
There must be a lot of people whose book acquisition method will vary depending on the relative convenience of library borrowing. With paper books, you need to go to the library twice -- once to borrow, once to return -- making library borrowing a lot less convenient than a single trip to a bookstore. Another inconvenience is having to pay library fines, something that never happens with Overdrive. Overdrive is so convenient that, even if I had previously bought books, I would do so no longer.
Ebooks disrupt the whole system where publishers could gets lots of revenue from people for whom money is less important than convenience, and then get a little library revenue by servicing those to whom price is more important than convenience.
I love libraries. I just don't understand how they are going to make sense in a digital world.