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I was never able to get exercised about windowing. You read the book eight weeks later; so what? Paper or digital, only a small percent of borrowers were going to get the book on release; it was the waitlist for everyone else anyway. And the swap, of a license for each book in perpetuity, is huge. It’s disheartening when you look for a book and see that the library used to own it and obviously has no plans to rebuy it.
My reaction to all this is along the lines of, “A plague on all your houses!” The author thinks ebooks cost her money. I can’t even bother with that one. I don’t even know what the librarian’s position is other than ebook are too expensive, but I’ll note that he uses a library card for which he pays no taxes or fees, so obviously the moral choice is beyond him. As for the publisher, I don’t understand why they can’t just price at a level that will ensure sufficient profitability to endure instead of playing games to force readers to buy a book instead of borrow it. The ableist rant about how it was better when people were forced to make trips to the library to borrow physical books is unattractive.
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