Macmillan Limits Library Ebook Access

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Macmillan limits library ebook access. Over 130 000 signatures have been added to the ebooks for all petition demanding that macmillan revisit their new policies and make them more friendly for libraries and their users. The macmillan policy severely limits public access to popular ebook titles. Still the library side pushed back at macmillan s singling out of libraries and assertion that e book lending was driving consumer reluctance to pay up.

Macmillan limiting library access to their e books i m sure some of you have already heard about this but macmillan s ceo john sargent recently released a letter to the company s authors illustrators and agents saying that libraries will be limited to one copy of an e book in the 8 weeks after its release. Macmillan publishers has decided to limit readers access to new ebook titles through public libraries. This policy amounts to a new form of censorship for.

Learn more about macmillan learning s online digital textbook solutions. This embargo would limit libraries ability to provide access to information for all. Now libraries may only purchase one copy of each new ebook published by macmillan for the first eight weeks after a book s release.

Read more news about publisher restrictions and policies affecting your library access to ebooks and e audiobooks at the urban libraries council s fair e book and e audiobook lending for libraries information page. It particularly harms library patrons with disabilities or learning issues. Will begin restricting sales of new e books to libraries to one per library system for the first eight weeks after publication.

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Ebooksforall beginning november 1 macmillan publishers will limit libraries regardless of size to purchase only one copy of each new ebook title for the first eight weeks after a book s release. December 6 2019 by. Limiting access to new titles for libraries means limiting access for readers like you.