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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Maybe I was right, maybe I was wrong. But every one of the first 6 books in Eisler's John Rain series is available from some US public libraries in Kindle format, as can be seen here:
http://search.overdrive.com/SearchRe...showVideo=True
And that book 7, the one published by Amazon, is not. |
For starters, I don't like that Amazon isn't supplying libraries with the ebooks their imprints publish and I've been actively avoiding buying those ebooks.
The deal Barry Eisler turned down was with St. Martin's Press, an imprint of MacMillan, who do not and have never sold their ebooks to public libraries. If they had published
The Detachment it would not be available at your local library.
The older Rain books were published by Penguin, who for a while last year allowed Overdrive to supply their backlist titles to libraries. A few libraries bought the Rain books during that window. Then in February Penguin terminated their contract with Overdrive. Libraries can still lend any books they already purchased, which is why you find old Rain books in the Overdrive listings, but no more Penguin books will be sold to libraries. If they'd published
The Detachment, your library would not have it. My public library serves over a million people and has 7258 ebook titles and doesn't have any of the Rain books, btw.
Unless the ebook had been published by Random House or HarperCollins or one of the smaller publishers you weren't going to find it in your public library.