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Melissa Techman

@fell @Liberapay @opencollective and also, as you boycott AMZN etc, libraries are amazing! Libby app for Overdrive, Hoopla for movies and more, databases for free access to magazine and newspaper articles...
Also:
Libro.fm instead of Audible
Plus:
Betterworldbooks.com and bookshop.org

8 November at 13:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.ie
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a fish named dog

@mtechman @fell @Liberapay @opencollective I've said it before and I'll say it again - while libraries are amazing, Libby and ebooks are 100 percent NOT. This is from a post by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh explaining why they need to halve the number of loans you are allowed to have: carnegielibrary.org/libby-hoop

A graphic of how much the book The Women, by Kristin Hannah, costs for consumers versus libraries. The print version costs $18.77 for consumers and $16.50 for libraries (it's unspecified if that's for paperback or hardcover). The audiobook costs $32.99 for consumers, and $60.00 for libraries (!). The ebook costs $14.99 for consumers and $60.00 for libraries (!!).
8 November at 18:15 | Open on mastodon.social
Melissa Techman

@FishNamedDog @fell @Liberapay @opencollective good for them for explaining the costs...it's a huge problem

8 November at 18:39 | Open on mastodon.ie
Joe Ortiz

@mtechman @FishNamedDog @fell @Liberapay @opencollective Also please read this from. @karawynn on why Libby/Overdrive, now owned by private equity firm KKR is poised to fuck libraries. Hell, they're already have.

ninelives.karawynnlong.com/the

9 November at 1:15 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
Melissa Techman

@joeo10 @FishNamedDog @fell @Liberapay @opencollective @karawynn Yup...complicated and a problem, and libraries have no choice but to deal with them.

9 November at 1:30 | Open on mastodon.ie
Melissa Techman
Joe Ortiz

@mtechman @FishNamedDog @fell @Liberapay @opencollective @karawynn And with the Internet Archive ever closer to death's door (I already resigned to the inevitably, check my pinned thread especially the most recent ones) l, it will get worse so a good piece.

9 November at 1:45 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
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