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Originally Posted by shalym
It looks like the State of CT may be getting ready to challenge publishers on the pricing scheme for e-books. They're going at it from both a consumer protection angle and from state contract law angle, since library budgets come from municipal budgets. Should be interesting, if anything comes of it.
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LION is my local library, and I have definitely noticed that if you don't get a book within a few months of when it was published, it might not be available ever again.
The "24 checkouts or 12 months" from publishers has to go. Pick one or the other, but not both.