<div>I am sure that most of you already saw this or the announcement from OverDrive yesterday but I am passing it along anyway.</div><div> </div><div>--------------</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/ala-decries-hachette-s-220-percent-library-ebook-price-increase?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=american+libraries+magazine">http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/ala-decries-hachette-s-220-percent-library-ebook-price-increase?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=american+libraries+magazine</a></div>
<div> </div><div><h1 class="title">ALA decries Hachette’s 220 percent library e-book price increase</h1> <div id="content-area"><div id="node-11450" class="node node-type-press-release"><div class="node-inner"><div class="press-release-sidebar">
</div><div class="content"><p>For Immediate Release<br>Fri, 09/14/2012 - 11:09</p><p>Contact: Jazzy Wright<br>Washington Office (wo)</p><br><p> Washington, <span class="caps">D.C.</span>— The American Library Association (<span class="caps">ALA</span>) denounces Hachette Book Group’s <a href="http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/14/hachette-to-raise-ebook-prices-for-libraries-by-220/" target="_blank">reported decision</a> to raise the price of e-books to the library market starting Oct. 1. <span class="caps">ALA</span> President Maureen Sullivan issued the following statement:</p>
<p> <span class="dquo">“</span>When Hachette announced it was stepping back into the library e-book market this past May with pilots that would bring a selection of its recent best-sellers to millions of library patrons, the <span class="caps">ALA</span> welcomed this news. <a href="http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/e-content/ebooks-promising-new-conversations" target="_blank">Leaving our meeting with them</a>, we were pleased that they recognized libraries as strong partners—as direct customers and marketers of their titles, as well as integral community institutions that must be supported as a fundamental cornerstone of literacy.</p>
<p> <span class="dquo">“</span>After these tentative steps forward, we were stunned to learn that Hachette plans to more than triple its prices for e-book sales to libraries starting October 1. Now we must ask, ‘With friends like these…?’</p>
<p> <span class="dquo">“</span>We are weary of faltering half steps and even more so of publishers that refuse to sell e-book titles to libraries at all. Today I have asked the <span class="caps">ALA</span>’s Digital Content <span class="amp">&</span> Libraries Working Group to develop more aggressive strategies and approaches for the nation’s library community to meet these challenges.</p>
<p> <span class="dquo">“</span>Libraries must have the ability to purchase a wide range of digital content at a fair price so that all readers have full access to our world’s creative and cultural resources, especially the many millions who depend on libraries as their only source of reading material.”</p>
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<span>“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.”―Maya Angelou</span><span></span></h6><span style="font-family:"Comic Sans MS";font-size:10pt"></span></div><br>