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Originally Posted by 93terp
Wow, what a display of the "Eff you, I've got mine" attitude.
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It's a display of reality. The article used as their example the TRAGEDY of not being able to read Oprah's latest book during it's high demand window.
That's no tragedy at all. And ebooks haven't changed the reality. No library ever buys enough books to meet the demand window of hot books. Never have, never will.
But we must whine and complain about how something TRAGIC has occurred because publishers aren't willing to destroy their own business by selling to libraries cheaply enough such that cheap ass libraries could cover the demand window....taking away the vast majority of the revenue a book is ever going to receive.
How terrible. We pay TAXES dontcha know....so, why should we have to buy our own books?!