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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Attention </span></font><font
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>Oregon</span></font><font color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> Libraries:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>One major
publisher, looking for more profits, has decided eBooks licensed to libraries
will only be valid for 26 circulations. After that you will have to buy
it all over again!</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>This is a very
disconcerting development on the part of a greedy publisher. Libraries
must unite in opposition to this “checkout limit” concept, even if
it means boycotting publishers who institute it. It’s the thin edge
of the wedge. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>More than a
hundred years ago publishers had similar profit-driven concerns about the
availability of books for free at libraries cutting into retail sales. We
need to go back and rediscover how libraries overcame that issue.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>According to
Library Journal:</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;font-style:italic'>“Josh
Marwell, President, Sales for HarperCollins, told LJ that the 26 circulation
limit was arrived at after considering a number of factors, including the
average lifespan of a print book, and wear and tear on circulating copies.</span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;font-style:italic'>As
noted in the letter, the terms will not be specific to OverDrive, and will
likewise apply to "all eBook vendors or distributors offering this
publisher's titles for library lending." The new terms will not be
retroactive, and will apply only to new titles. More details on the new terms
are set to be announced next week.</span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;font-style:italic'> </span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><i><font size=2 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black;font-style:italic'>If
a lending period is two weeks, the 26 circulation limit is likely to equal
roughly one year of use for a popular title. For a three-week lending period,
that stretches to a year and a half.”</span></font></i></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>I think I may
write to Mr. Maxwell and inform him that, effective immediately, our library
will not buy any title from any HarperCollins imprint in any format (print,
audio recording, or electronic) as long as his new policy remains in
effect. I will inform patrons seeking HarperCollins titles of the reason
we do not have them. Because many lower-demand titles are profitable
primarily through library sales (poetry and reference books come to mind) this
action, if taken by a few thousand libraries, would certainly get Mr. Maxwell
to reconsider. </span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Who’s with
me on this?</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Bob Jones</span></font><font
color=black face="Courier New"><span style='font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>, MA, MSLS, CAS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Library Director</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Milton-Freewater
Public Library</span></font></p>
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