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It's not hard to find. http://http://www.thedigitalshift.co...ith-overdrive/

The desire to increase this friction may lead the recalcitrant publishers to demand a business model in which they will only make their ebooks available to public libraries if they are used in the library or if a patron is required to bring their device to the library and load the title onto the device in the library, then bring it home.

As most people know who are following the tribulations of libraries trying to stock ebooks, four of the Big Six publishers are not making any ebooks available to libraries at all (except titles already sold in the past.) Random House continues to supply all their titles to libraries as ebooks with only the “one loan at a time per copy purchased” limitation, but they have just raised the prices of those books to libraries substantially. HarperCollins was widely villified a year ago when they introduced a limitation of 26 loans per copy purchased, but this is apparently now more widely being seen as an acceptable limitation. (Random House pricing and the others’ total withdrawal from the market are making 26 loans look good!)

http://http://www.thedigitalshift.co...alks-with-ala/

Molly Raphael, ALA’s president, said in a blog posting on Wednesday that publishers and libraries both want to bring authors and readers together but that some of their goals diverge. She said a key issue at each meeting was publishers’ concern about sales since the ebook lending transaction presents less “friction” than the traditional print transaction.
“The online availability of ebooks alters this friction calculation, and publishers are concerned that the ready download-ability of library ebooks could have an adverse effect on sales,” Raphael said.