Lately, I ‘m finding almost everything I want to read at search.overdrive.com, so refusal to license to libraries is much less of an issue than it used to be, at least to someone who doesn’t read self-published books.
The bigger part of the
Maryland law is the requirement to license eBooks to libraries under “reasonable” terms.
My first concern is that I don’t understand what is meant by reasonable. Is charging libraries double reasonable? I’m guessing yes. Is changing thirty times more reasonable? I’m guessing no.
I was going to post that the Maryland law should only apply to the University of Maryland Press, or similar, but there seems to be no such publisher.