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Originally Posted by issybird
From the petition:
I'm just not feeling this; I certainly don't think it's the hill for libraries to die on.
We've had variations on this conversation before. Saying "wait eight weeks" is not at all the same as saying, "you can't have this ever." Playing the violins about disabled readers gets an eyeroll from me. The disabled as well as anyone else who wants to borrow a particular Macmillan book from OverDrive can read something else in the interim - perhaps even a book that came out eight weeks ago. Libraries have never worked on immediate access anyway, unless you were a combination of lucky and cunning.
Shrug. Ebooks are still a market in tremendous flux and I'm not surprised that the players are tinkering with their models. I don't think the Big Five are the Big Evil and my own ineradicable preference is for gateway publishing. I think the libraries are using up outrage that could be better directed at other areas, especially expiring licenses.
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Is it "wait eight weeks" though? What are Macmillan's terms? It is one permanent license during the first eight weeks, and than 2 year licenses at a higher price?
Talking to my librarian, they will not be purchasing the 2 year licenses (they are too expensive), so I'm guessing that wait times will continually be +6months, and for ebook users to gradually be weaned off of MacMillan authors. Again, for my library.