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Originally Posted by MGlitch
Tell you what when you bother to answer my question about why this particular tactic is a good move I’ll answer this. All you’ve done so far is say the library has a right to try and get the best deal it can.
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Follow the money.
If the publisher can afford to lose the library as customer for ebooks, they will change nothing. If they find out after a while that their embargo is counterproductive, they have to please the library to get them back as customer. By limiting to one copy they are not hurting the few that use the library to save money, but regular users that cannot just simply buy. It is also a statement that you cannot simply push the library around. Ebooks are already more lucrative for the publisher than pbooks. Now the library is also responsible for "stealing customers". It doesn't appear to be a problem with paper, just ebooks. Maybe, just maybe, the problem of their inability to sell ebooks to customers has other more pressing reasons than the library.