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Originally Posted by issybird
I think the embargo is a poor choice but it doesn't offend me. If I were a customer of a library instituting such a ban, I might or might not send them a protest, but I wouldn't feel as if my rights had been trampled. I fail to understand why so many discussions here seem to involve a forced moral component (Censorship! It isn't fair!) about what is purely business, impersonal and amoral.
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Is it 8 weeks? I seem to recall others bandying 90 days, but if it's 8 weeks then that just puts me further into the camp of the publishers. Some of these authors take 8 years to put out a new book in a series, at that point 8 weeks is barely a drop in the bucket.
To be clear, I'm not ascribing a moral reasoning behind the action of either the publisher or the library. One is restricting the number of copies, the other is removing them entirely. These are, as you say, business decisions. Call it what you will, I still find it a bad move for the library.