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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
Just out of curiousity, how much does Hatchette charge a library for a hardcover book of the same title? If the new ebook prices are comparable to what the library pays for a hardcover, I don't think that's unreasonable if Hatchette's not the publisher with the license limiting each purchase to 26 checkouts.
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Depends what you mean by "new ebook", ebooks published before April 2010 aren't exactly new, paperbacks for those have been out for at least a year.
Btw, HarperCollins are the ones who have the 26 checkout restriction. For anyone else keeping track: Random House increased the prices they charge libraries for ebooks earlier this year, but they at least do sell them frontlist books, Penguin stopped selling even their backlist ebooks to libraries last year, while MacMillan and Simon & Schuster never have sold ebooks to public libraries.