📚As a library, deeply concerned about everyone's access to knowledge, it's hard to overemphasize why this Washington Post Perspective is so important.
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2/ That illustration says it all.
It's what digital library shelves will look like in a few years. Empty except the current bestsellers. Why? Because publishers refuse to sell ebooks to libraries, only license them thru subscriptions. (Think Netflix for library books.)
It's what digital library shelves will look like in a few years. Empty except the current bestsellers. Why? Because publishers refuse to sell ebooks to libraries, only license them thru subscriptions. (Think Netflix for library books.)
3/ And now Amazon is refusing to sell or license its ebooks and audiobooks to libraries at all. @GeoffreyFowler: "Amazon treating digital collections differently than print is a 'particularly pernicious new form of the digital divide,' the @ALALibrary told Congress."
4/ @geoffreyfowler writes: "Another problem: Libraries can’t archive for posterity what they don’t have access to."
@library_futures is a new organization fighting for libraries' rights in the digital age. Follow them & help libraries fight for the right to own & lend books.
@library_futures is a new organization fighting for libraries' rights in the digital age. Follow them & help libraries fight for the right to own & lend books.
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