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I posted a link to an article some time ago from the Washingtion Post that talked about the dificulties various librarys are having attempting to acquire the boosk that you and I want to borrow. Seems the problem is that publishers are attempting to kill off public libraries they would rather you and I buy per book that we get from them. As I have said frequently in these pages that the slogan for my local library should be - What ever you want we don't have it - what ever you don't want we got. I tend to do my business with publishers that are quite happy to sell to libraries, I have asked them neither Gold Eagle nor Baen have any problem selling any book to the library as long as the library comes back to buy more books from them. What these publishers are looking for is long term customers rather than the customer that buys one or two boosk from them and disapears. They want customers that buy and buy and buy they make more from long run customers then the one time buyer.
How are you going to limit the growth of the to be read stack Asa?
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