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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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.
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@Steve. Unfortunately you seem to be simply making some of this up. I have the same evidence for my statement that you quote as you have for yours. That is, both are sheer speculation. However, my statement was simply illustrating this point, that we are only speculating on the reasons. I went on to advance another possible explanation, of which there could be many.
And if you believe publishers are providing their books to libraries at prices they can afford, I would, to quote another poster, like whatever you are smoking. Admittedly they have improved a little, but prices to libraries are still basically extortionate. You have accused Amazon of an ebook boycott of public libraries based on the fact that you couldn't find some books you searched for. Whilst you may prove to be correct, logically it simply does not follow.
Amazon has been the subject of calls for boycotts from all sorts of Luddites and supporters of the way things were which recur frequently. Many bookstores apparently did boycott Amazon titles and as far as I know still do. It is no great leap to conclude it is equally plausible that Overdrive and others are boycotting Amazon titles. And even more plausible that neither Amazon nor Overdrive and other library suppliers have bothered. I would also suggest that Amazon Derangement Disorder is at such levels that any examples or evidence of Amazon refusing to supply its ebooks to public libraries would be a big story indeed. Perhaps this may even happen as a result of your post if you do prove to be correct.