Turns Out When Random House Said Libraries ‘Own’ Their Ebooks, It Meant, ‘No’

Turns Out When Random House Said Libraries ‘Own’ Their Ebooks, It Meant, ‘No, They Don’t Own Them’

“That means they don’t want to worry about having the company they bought their books from suddenly lock them out of their collection for reasons they won’t explain. It means they want to be able to move those ebooks from platform to platform without permission. It means they want to be able to lend those ebooks to a friend. Some smaller publishers get this, provide DRM free ebooks, and make it easy for this to happen. Random House, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to understand the issue at all.”