Alan Inouye's Update on Library Digital Content Matters from 2/1/2020
/Thanks to Alan Inouye, ALA Senior Director, Public Policy & Government Relations, for the following news update:
ALA EBOOK PUBLIC POLICY & ADVOCACY
Upcoming: eBook panel at the PLA National Conference in Nashville, Friday, 10:15 a.m.
Writeup of ALA’s eBook panel at 2020 ALA Midwinter
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/the-latest-on-ebooksforall/
Writeups on the John Sargent (CEO, Macmillan) AMA session at 2020 ALA Midwinter
ALA news release: http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2020/01/ala-persists-ebooksforall-advocacy-campaign-macmillan-must-lift-embargo
American Libraries magazine: https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/macmillan-ceo-hosts-ama/
ARTICLES
More writeups on the John Sargent AMA session
Texas State Librarian: https://www.tsl.texas.gov/director/libraries-and-the-e-book-market-where-do-we-stand/
Information Today: http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Macmillan-CEO-Talks-to-Librarians-at-ALA-Midwinter-136267.asp
Digital Book World makes strong statement against Macmillan embargo
"I can’t remember the last time a major publisher [MacmillanUSA] took an action so widely and loudly reviled by customers and readers alike" in Pondering the State of Digital Publishing in Publishers Weekly
Burlington [Mass.] Public Library Director Michael Wick called the Macmillan move “unethical”
Continuing pushback by Multnomah County (Ore.) Library against Macmillan embargo
And pushback from Buffalo, NY and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada:
https://buffalonews.com/2019/12/19/new-e-book-rules-called-discriminatory-to-library-readers/