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Originally Posted by meeera
Overdrive: posting facts and figures. MacMillan: claiming that they have some, but not sharing them, and misrepresenting the ones they do.
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Overdrive is arguing out of both sides of their mouth. If MacMillan books are so "not in demand" that they age out before the reach 52 checkouts....then who cares if there is an 8 week time window?
Overdrive cast aspersion on Macmillan's claims but not because of any reasons...just...complaints that Macmillan didn't publish their data.
What Overdrive spent zero time addressing is whether or not they are sensitive to and in agreement with a publisher's desire to increase sales.
What Overdrive isn't interested in....is whether or not their service to libraries has made borrowing ebooks so easy that it works as a depressant to sales.
What I think we should all trust is that Macmillan is working for it's own best interest...or trying to. There is revenue for selling ebooks to direct customers. There is revenue for selling ebooks to libraries. The publisher is trying to figure out how to make the money selling to libraries without cannibalizing too much the money selling books to customers.
We have testimony aplenty here of folks joining libraries in other cities, even countries, so that they can check out ebooks. We also have testimony of folks who discover books and authors from libraries who go on to buy those books or others from the authors.
Macmillan isn't going to share their proprietary data. Why give your competitors business insights that you paid to acquire?