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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
I limit myself to this, as it very nicely sums up your whole wall of text.
They are not removing access to Macmillan books as you want to color this into practically censorship. They are removing the purchasing of new ebooks only, not books in general.
And nice to bring Hachette back into this. Amazon did no such thing as to remove their ebooks from the store. Once they were published, you could buy them. What you couldn't do was preorder them.
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Actually they are removing access to Macmillan books it’s just any future Macmillan book and likely any licenses that expire. Even if it’s just future books it’s still censorship. The quote again is
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My library has a banner on their website announcing that starting November 1st they will no longer purchase ebooks published by Macmillan.
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Which would indicate a total cease of anything. So as those licenses run out, they wouldn't be purchased again.
And literally nothing you’ve said addresses how this is good for them.
And the point of the Amazon example was how public opinion can weigh in. The public was on the side of hachette despite Amazon wanting to charge less.