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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The OP has their terminology wrong.
Tor is windowing libraries, not embargoing.
They are delaying availability, not denying it.
https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/...ibrary-ebooks/
It is a stupid, counterproductive move, given that libraries are known to be a net positive for sales by improving visibility of the works, but very much in line with historical BPH attitudes towards public libraries. Moves like this one, from 2011:
https://the-digital-reader.com/2011/...rom-overdrive/
If they had their druthers they *would* embargo libraries, permanently.
They still might. |
Or, it could be that since they actually have the real sales figures and not some consultant generated estimate, they are experimenting to see if there actually _is_ some sort of effect on the sales numbers. Well, gosh, that's what the article says they are doing.
Yea, I get the any stick to beat the publishers with mindset, but this seems to be a reasonable experiment. Given that publishers are in the business to sell books, I would suspect if the _real_ numbers show that if windowing ebooks to the library hurts their sales as you assert, they will stop doing it.