Culture minister Margaret Hodge’s suggestion that libraries should link up with internet bookseller Amazon greeted with outrage
Guardian UK: The culture minister Margaret Hodge’s suggestion that libraries should start selling books as well as lending them has been greeted with outrage by embattled booksellers.
Speaking yesterday at the public library authorities conference in Bristol, Hodge outlined the terms of a consultation process due to begin later this year, saying that with less than 40% of the UK’s population using libraries she was “all in favour of pushing our thinking to the boundaries, and testing ideas to destruction”.
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