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   Noelle :verified: (noellemitchell@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 22:48:54 JST Noelle :verified:

   "The modestly funded West Haven Library has spent more than $12,000 over the last three years to lease just 276 additional digital titles beyond what patrons can access through a consortium of public libraries. Eighty-four of those books are no longer available. If that same amount had been spent on paper books, it would have covered about 800 titles."

   #books #reading #libraries #publishing #writers #news #press #media #bookstodon

   https://apnews.com/article/libraries-ebooks-publishers-expensive-laws-5d494dbaee0961eea7eaac384b9f75d2

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 22:52:58 JST Børge

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     • Cathy Gellis

     @noellemitchell @cathygellis I think libraries should drop ebooks. DRM and the various ToS are 100% antithetical to everything libraries stand for. Make the physical libraries as great as they can be, so people want to visit and stay there to read, focus on physical books and tools and instruments and seeds and bikes and anything else physical that people might need to borrow, and tell the ebook vendors to fuck off with their draconian, anti-democratic demands and price gouging