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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Depends on who you want to believe.
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Well, both are players and so it's not like you'd expect either one to be unbiased.
However, I find it detracts from OverDrive's credibility to use unsound rhetorical tactics. If someone doesn't give all the answers behind the numbers...that does NOT mean they are lying. Asserting so takes away credibility.
There is no doubt at all that Overdrive's product allows the sale of one library book to be easily acquired and read by multiple people. To not at least ACKNOWLEDGE the publisher's concerns...is another thing that takes away from their credibility.
At the end (or maybe it was somewhere else I read it) - there was talk of how libraries increase sales of books. That should be the lede, the middle and the conclusion. Rather than trying to persuade McMillan of the positives that should be coming from their partnership....Overdrive is putting out a public attack aimed at turning public opinion against McMillan.
They should both be looking to find the sweet spot, the optimum position where selling to libraries brings the MOST advantage to the publisher. It's somewhere between not selling to the libraries at all, and allowing endless reads of a single ebook to any number of people simultaneously.