Alan Inouye's Updates from 9/29/2020
/Thank you to Mr. Inouye for following library digital content news!
Report: Ebook Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Examining Preference, Management, and Purchasing Patterns -- from Choice, ACRL. www.choice360.org/research/...
This Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law will hold a hearing on "Proposals to Strengthen the Antitrust Laws and Restore Competition Online."
judiciary.house.gov/calendar/... [This one could be of great interest to librarians—let’s hope it might strike a blow against providers’ excusive content.]
Recent article in New York Times includes a quote from Amazon on library eBook lending
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/24/business/...
Roundup on the departure of John Sargent as CEO of Macmillan Publishers
www.nytimes.com/2020/09/17/books/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/...
And on Macmillan Publishers, the company
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/...
www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/...
ReadersFirst takes this opportunity to wish Mr. Sargent well. The library ebook statements he made and the licensing/pricing he advocated were often bad indeed for us, but our opposition was never anything personal. Fare the well!