I'm trying to figure out if there's some system or process for publishers and authors as far as where the books are made available..... (yeah, I know, it's the question doesn't make sense to me either)
A long time ago, a couple years at least (which is about a century in digital terms) there was some big kerfuffle about some <pick your own adjective> publishers refusing to make their ebooks available to libraries. Is this STILL going on?
For example, Brett Battles has a number of books. Over time I've read all but three as epub books. Some I found in the digital catalog of one of the libraries I use. Some I've bought from Amazon and converted to epub so they could be read.
His two newest Quinn books and the newest Rewinder book aren't available in ANY library - they don't even show up in Overdrive for me. Nor do they exist in the Cloud Library.
Was there a change in publisher? In publisher policy? Some other bizarre thing in the industry? I THINK the last time I checked I could only find them at Amazon (possibly B&N)... Is there a simple way to tell if an author has refused to put his/her ebooks in libraries, or is published by a company that refuses?