Comments on: Increased ebook lending popularity leaves publishers worried, librarians still dissatisfied

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COVID-19 and eBooks: Fragmented Thoughts | Larry Bonura's Blog — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 15:59:50 +0000

[…] Increased eBook lending popularity leaves publishers worried, librarians still dissatisfied […]

By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:33:20 +0000

And anyway, after the initial bobble over Apple ringleading, the courts okayed publishers to reimpose the exact same agency pricing terms individually. So if someone came up with a model like that and publishers all opted into it individually, it should still work just as well.

It’s just that, as I say, I doubt they’d be willing.

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By: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:10:40 +0000

In reply to Bill Rosenblatt.

Did a quick Google to find out. Carmi Parker, ILS Administrator from Whatcom County Library System in Washington state. Updated the article accordingly.

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By: Bill Rosenblatt

Bill Rosenblatt — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 18:34:51 +0000

That position paper was written by an individual, yet it refers to “we.” Who is “we”?

Apart from that, it seems to me that any uniform pricing model for libraries (assuming they continue to not get first sale rights for ebooks) is probably doomed by antitrust concerns anyway.

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