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Originally Posted by dkperez
Likewise, if a publisher sells a hardcover book to a library for $30 (or whatever the price may be), but wants to charge the same library $90 for the same book in electronic format, I believe it's nothing more than extortion to keep the library from getting the e-book.
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You are citing here a Random House practice. But if the library waits until the book has been out a year, it goes way down.
It would be nice if they didn't charge libraries way more, but I don't have too much problem with the more common practice of charging a few dollars more. It's trivial compared to the Journal of the American Medical Association changing thousands of dollars to non-profit universities, and $1,070 to public libraries, as shown here:
http://jamanetwork.com/data/pdfs/ads...ricing2012.pdf
compared to $175 for a non-member physician, as can be found by hunting through the pull-down menus on their web site.
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
What the rights holder wants is irrelevant.
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Irrelevant to what?
I could say that compared to public libraries making major medical journals available, supplying fantasy literature is of trivial importance.