Library eBook Pledge
Open Book Publishers,
Sept 14, 2023
Just as music publishers have successfully converted the market from music you buy and own to streams you subscribe to on a month-to-month basis, so also book publishers want to convert books into time-limited and temporary access. This is why the Library eBook Pledge was created. "The move to licensed eBooks has undermined many things we once took for granted, including stable pricing, preservation and inter-library loan, through to even the possibility for a library to acquire a book. This is not sustainable." Via the Nation in an article unironically offered as a time-limited temporary access subscription based model.
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