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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
If Amazon is so good for the common man, Mr. Eisler, why isn't your The Detachment eBook, the one they published for you, sold, at any price, to public libraries?
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Yeah, because if he'd published his new book with his old publisher Penguin or gone for the $500,000 advance offered by St. Martin's Press (MacMillan), the ebook would be available in libraries.... oh wait, no it wouldn't.
I don't like that Amazon's imprints aren't available in libraries, and I hope that as they expand they'll recognize the merit of distributing to public libraries, but it's disingenuous to imply that if Eisler hadn't self-published with Amazon his ebook would be in public libraries.