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Originally Posted by rcentros
Greed short circuits the brain.
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Consider the second sentence below from the OP article (reached via public library paid-for access):
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Macmillan will continue to sell its e-books to libraries for a two-year period, or 52 lends for $60 per book copy. One copy of each title will be sold on a perpetual-use basis for $30.
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A couple decades of rent, for shelf space alone, comes to more than $30 for other than the thinnest paper books. So those greedy you know what seem, to me, to be offering libraries a bargain.
As for the library patron waiting a year or two, for the one copy, that seems to me a totally fair trade-off between freedom to read and keeping publishers away from the newspaper industry death march.
I know that's just Macmillan. And waiting for one copy in Wyoming won't be the same as waiting for one copy in Chicago. But I commend this.