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Originally Posted by meeera
Also known as "professional librarians", and that's a pretty sexist metaphor.
I don't think this link by Overdrive's founder has been posted yet, has it?
Macmillan publishes a work of fiction
Overdrive: posting facts and figures. MacMillan: claiming that they have some, but not sharing them, and misrepresenting the ones they do. |
It's a common saying in the States. Of course, some people go out of their way to be offended by many things.
Not much in the way of facts in that particular harangue. Obviously, Overdrive has a business model to protect. They are worried that MacMillian might damage that business model. That's the way things go. MacMillian could have simply cut off ebooks to libraries for the first 3 month. They didn't. It appears to me that after doing an experiment, they are trying to find the middle road. It sounds reasonable to me.