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Originally Posted by Catlady
While I'm not all up in arms about this, I don't see how it's going to help increase sales;
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It won't.
This is just a followup to Agency price hikes, which they thought would make readers buy print instead of digital.
Instead, it drove them to other vendors and libraries. (If we believe their claims.)
So now they block libraries, thinking *that* will drive readers to buy print.
When that fails, and it will, they'll drop ebooks altogether.
And that too will fail.
As Salon implies, it's not libraries or ebooks that's degrading their sales. It's their books. They're just not sticking on the wall.