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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I'm missing the subtle part.
They don't offer any Amazon publishing titles to public libraries. Nothing subtle there.
University presses used to be just as bad, but once in a while they lately allow a title to go to Overdrive.
The Bezos-owned Washington Post is widely available, on computers and tablets but not eReaders, to public library patrons (in Pennsylvania, it comes through Gale OneFile News). That's the only subtlety I see, and it's not much a subtlety to realize that Bezos personally does not equal Amazon. (I subscribe anyway, for greater convenience, and because of being grandfathered into a good price.)
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Yes, subtleties was the wrong word; I meant complexities. IMO the reporter focused on the big name authors while there are other broader parts to the issue, as I described. Don’t really know what your last paragraph has to do with the issue at hand.