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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
AFAIK their [Amazon] print books are available to libraries...
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Publishers have no power to stop a public library from buying a physical book.
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Originally Posted by darryl
I was hoping you would actually have a source.
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My source is me. I've never found any.
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Originally Posted by darryl
Perhaps rather than being a particular Amazon anti-Library policy they simply don't like to deal with Overdrive.
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I just picked, as an exercise, this "#1 Amazon Charts bestseller:"
Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky
This shows you that libraries are buying it in paper:
http://charlotte.delco.lib.pa.us/sea...ORT=D&2%2C2%2C
As you would have expected, I can't find the eBook on Overdrive. But besides that, using the Calibre lending libraries plug-in to search for library eBooks, I'm not finding it on the Cloud Library (formerly 3M), Axis 360, or RBdigital collections to which I have access.
A few months ago a relative recommended another Amazon published title to my wife Barbara, and I could not get it for her as a library eBook despite my slightly crazy, but legitimate, collection of library cards (Brooklyn, many Pennsylvania, one in New Jersey, two military). She did get it as a paper book from one of the libraries in our county. Unfortunately for purposes of providing evidence that Amazon's eBook operation boycotts public libraries, it wasn't memorable enough for either our us to recall the title.
I do have web access to the Jeff Bezos-owned
Washington Post via the Brooklyn library (and probably some of the others). So the problem isn't the man, but rather the Amazon company.