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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?
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With paper books, Hatchette has almost no ability to set a different price for libraries than for the general public.
I say almost because there are wholesalers that libraries tend to use for both purchase and rental (they often rent a few copies of a best-seller, but only buy one outright for their permanent collection). I suppose Hatchette could favor or disfavor those wholesalers. But if the library wants to buy a hardback from WalMart or Amazon, Hatchette cannot stop them.
The library could of course still buy an eBook from Kobo or Amazon for the same price as the general public. But the library couldn't live with the license terms, and needs a different variant of DRM.