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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Seriously? You believe everything the noble publishers dish up? No wonder you are so happy to say that anybody opposing the gospel according to Macmillan has no merit.
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Says the one lapping up what the libraries are saying or overdrive.
Of the parties involved, the libraries, overdrive, and the publishers only one can exist without the others. Which is going to make me question them slightly less than the two who would dwindle without the third.
I also don’t believe everything that the publishers say. However they are a for profit business. As such their motives are rather basic they want to maximize profits.
The libraries are a non profit. They’re going to seek to get whatever they want for the least they possibly can, doing the least they have to. And before you get bent out of shape I said
libraries not librarians. So when they say the publishers deal is totally unfair but the details of that deal don’t support their claim and they resort to depriving the public of a part of their service I’m not going to pay their continued cries much heed.
Finally overdrive which has a everything to lose if publishers stop providing ebooks to libraries I’m going to scrutinize everything they say and what they don’t say.
As to agency pricing if you really want to beat that dead horse, publishers will set a price at a point where they get the most sales at the highest price. If you don’t like the price don’t buy the product. If enough people agree with you the price will be adjusted down. However it seems more people feel the prices are reasonable. No amount of people crying about “unfair” pricing is going to change that while people are still buying the product.