Thread: Librarians respond to suggestion Amazon should replace libraries
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Old 07-26-2018, 02:00 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by PurpleStar View Post
What's with the dumping on libraries these days?? First the Tor thing and now this. Gheesh, not everyone can afford to buy every book they read!
I find myself somewhat tempted to agree that the article was tongue in cheek. But then as a Canadian where the library ebooks are epub format, switching to Amazon would be a pain short of Amazon supporting epub format which might be a bit more likely than libraries being replaced by Amazon.

As for Tor, I regard their delaying the availability of ebooks in libraries much the same light as books being available in hardcover, trade paperback and then mass market paperback. A corporate attempt to maximize the profits. I've purchased several eARCs from Baen so the attempt can work.
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