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Originally Posted by Synamon
Since they wouldn't license frontlist ebooks to libraries for 2 years, there are only a small number of Hachette ebooks at most libraries.
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Then I misinterpreted your post #285. I read it as saying that there was a two year period, since completed, when Hachette was only licensing eBooks to a single library.
Given all else there is to read, I don't consider the two years you mention as a barrier for fiction, since the world won't have changed enough in that time to make a novel less meaningful. And the two years does not apply to well-reviewed non-fiction such as
The Everything Store and the next Hachette title I may read,
The Secret Rescue.
The fairest, most humane, system is that the affluent, who can afford to pay get the book first, support, with their purchases, the masses who must wait a bit while retaining the same freedom to read. Hachette, while admittedly not the best, is now participating in that system. Amazon does not participate, instead competing with public libraries through their paid Kindle Owners' Lending Library.
I suspect participants in the
Ebook Buying Addicts' Support Thread may have a different perspective
