Are Libraries Bad for Authors? Part 2: Overdrive Fires Back! · 6:54pm Aug 2nd, 2019
It’s time for round two, folks, and Overdrive has come out swinging and swinging hard!
So, remember yesterday’s post on MacMillan? Who are, by the way, the owners of Tor (whoops as I actually missed that fact), the folks who last year decided to ban new releases of their books from libraries as libraries, they felt were the equivalent of piracy and book theft.
Yeah … Anyway, yesterday’s post on MacMillan’s announcement (and claims) was read by a many of you, if the site stats are any indication. Well, in that post, I called MacMillan’s numbers into question (mostly by bringing up the ridiculous price they’ve set for ebooks, and them being a market leader despite that, yet somehow claiming they can’t afford to pay their authors, and then attempting to blame libraries for that fact).
Today, it looks like I’m not the only one. You ready to read a verbal smackdown?
What am I saying. Of course you are.
That was, indeed, a verbal smackdown. A shame your comment didn't make it through moderation, though.
Here's hoping it gets easier for libraries to discover and stock indie ebooks.
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It showed up later for some reason! Don't know why it was delayed for so long (and vanished from the queue) but it's up at last!
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Yay!