Here’s an interesting thread of stories regarding Penguin’s dance around the availability of eBooks for libraries. Are they in? Are they out? New ones? Old ones? Following yesterday’s news that Penguin, citing security concerns, is pulling its new e-books from libraries—and making none of them available for library lending through Kindle—many are wondering why the…
“Back when you owned your own collection, you didn’t risk losing it because you had a billing dispute with the Book-of-the-Month Club, nor could a library fine threaten your family photos. Such scenarios are becoming possible as cloud services become more consolidated. Apple’s iCloud will look after e-mail, books, music, photos you take, and documents…
Seriously, which do you think will sell more books: making libraries re-purchase each e-book after 26 reads, or giving away full copies of book 1 in the series? I know which I think will be successful. Harper Collins wants to kill library e-books. I signed the petition –take a look and you will probably add your…