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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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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Publishers are private businesses. They do not have a responsibility to sell books to anyone. They only have a fiduciary responsibility to their stockholders and any contracts they have with their employees and authors.