[Michlib-l] Technical Paper: The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy: How Publishers and Platforms Have Reshaped the Way We Read in the Digital Age

[Jim Flury]

Good Morning, 

The attached paper provides a very good summary of how we, libraries that is, arrived at where we currently are in the eBook licensing and lending world. The anonymous quotes from various industry insiders are particularly interesting. The paper concludes with some possible solutions to address what ails us in what is a complex dance between publishers, distributors, and libraries. 

Jim 

Jim Flury 
Technical Services Manager 
The Library Network 
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