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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Except I’ve said library lending does help sales, which Macmillan seems to acknowledge as well since they only restrict multiple licenses for 90 days.
And you’ve yet to provide any reason why this would be good for the library to do..
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Libraries are expensive, inefficient, government mandated and taxpayer supported entities. 11% of the budget goes to the library collection, 89% goes to the staff salaries, and overhead, which includes providing meeting spaces for the public and computers. If a library can only provide less popular and older works, some of those taxpayers might get to thinking that all that library tax money is not well spent. So the libraries will defend themselves against a publisher who runs the risk of marginalizing libraries, in case taxpayers take notice that the libraries are expensive and inefficient providers of (now older) content.
Is that too harsh? I like and use my library for ebooks, but I do not think I am inaccurate in what I have said.
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