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Originally Posted by leebase
What Macmillan wants is to prevent library checkouts from competing with sales for the first 8 weeks of a book being published.
If checking out a book had a high correlation to a person buying that very book....no publisher would be looking to alter their relationship with libraries.
Libraries and the publishers will keep negotiating their relationship.
It was inevitable that as checking out an ebook from the library became as easy as buying a book...publishers were going to react.
Libraries are not going to win this battle. Nor should they. It is quite reasonable to withhold book borrowing for the first 2 months of a book's release.
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I agree, and it's not even like the publishers are withholding entirely. The ebook is only limited to one licenses (which is cheaper AND perpetual) in those 8 weeks.
And despite a rather lengthy thread of protests over this change I've yet to read a reasonable response as to why this is "unfair" to anyone.