'Won't' is a very curious word to use, that implies we could but we're choosing not to.
How about 'half of UK librarians are being prevented from meeting their users' needs due to exploitation, profiteering, a dysfunctional market & inadequate library budgets'? #ebookSOS
How about 'half of UK librarians are being prevented from meeting their users' needs due to exploitation, profiteering, a dysfunctional market & inadequate library budgets'? #ebookSOS
https://twitter.com/researchinfo/status/1529378942179852290
Not to mention companies like K*rt*xt, who deliver a model that is only viable/profitable precisely because the market is so broken & dysfunctional, encouraging adoption of a per FTE individual textbook model that narrows choice and patterns a secondary school style of teaching.
If ebooks were available on reasonable terms with fair prices & permissive licences, we wouldn't need K*rt*xt, would we? So they write these articles & sponsor this research, yet their existence relies on the continuation of this messed up, exploitative, utterly broken market.
I am literally medicated on Valium right now, and this shit still gets my blood pressure rising.
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