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Are they boycotting Random House ebooks or ALL Random House books? The article doesn't really say. It's an interesting dilemma. It's not really a boycott unless they stop acquiring Random House books in any format. If I don't like Coke's aluminum can policies, but I buy Coke in bottles, is that a boycott? And yet, if it were a total boycott, do they have an obligation to get the titles that their patrons want? What about the patrons who could care less about ebooks (the vast majority of their patrons), and wonder why the library doesn't have the latest book by their favorite author?
Anyway, I think high ebooks prices are better than not allowing libraries to buy your ebooks. Let's see some big libraries stop acquiring any Simon & Schuster titles, in any format, until they offer library ebooks.
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