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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Oops! The guy’s name is Marwell, not
Maxwell.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Bob Jones<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 25, 2011
12:00 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'Diedre Conkling';
libs-or@listsmart.osl; PUBLIB<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Libs-Or] Take action
against greedy publishers!</span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>Attention Oregon Libraries:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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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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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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><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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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
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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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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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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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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>Bob Jones, MA, MSLS, CAS</span></font></p>
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face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:black'>Library Director</span></font></p>
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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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