It’s a rare thing in a free market when a customer is refused the ability to buy a company’s product and is told its money is no good here.
– Maureen Sullivan, 9/28/2012 – An Open Letter to America’s Publishers
When Sullivan penned this letter as President of the American Library Association, she was worried about the future of libraries. The ALA sought public support over a dispute between libraries and Big 5 publishers in much the same way that Hachette Book Group is currently enlisting authors in its fight over book pricing with Amazon. The problem was simple. Library patrons were reading more and more eBooks.
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