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Originally Posted by darryl
Then again, perhaps overdrive and others who provide the infrastructure for libraries to lend ebooks are boycotting Amazon.
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Back when eBook products from Simon & Schuster, and Macmillan, weren't ever found in public library collections, I don't recall any defender of big publishing suggesting such an implausbile excuse.
Publishers have a freedom-to-read responsibility to make their products available to public libraries, and at prices good libraries can, even if painfully, afford. This is how publishers can balance their responsibility as good citizens with fiduciary duties to employees, authors, and stockholders. When a best-selling product isn't in
any library, that is evidence of failure to exercise said responsibility to make sure reading, including eReading, won't be restricted to the affluent.